Instant Favorite.

Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

Boring, long, and too preachy.

Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

This isn't my favorite John Wayne film...but it's in my top 5. And what makes it so very good is its comic elements and the woman that was probably John Wayne's best leading lady -- Maureen O'Hara. O'Hara was stunningly beautiful and she had a spunky personality that worked so well in any film with John Wayne. Many prefer their "The Quiet Man", which is a lovely film, but I like this film.Here, John Wayne, beginning to show his age, plays a big rancher who has an off-again/on-again relationship with his wife. He does play the powerful rancher, but one who is basically a good man.Marueen O'Hara, at her spunky-best, plays his wife. She's back at the ranch because their daughter is returning from the East.John Wayne's son, Patrick, whom I always rather liked, plays a young farmer (not rancher) who goes to work for McLintock and, of course, falls in love with McLintock's daughter. Patrick is excellent here. Patrick's screen mother (Yvonne DeCarlo) is also hired, to cook at the ranch house...and be a little romantic competition for O'Hara. DeCarlo is very good here.Stefanie Powers, an actress I pretty much forgot about, plays Wayne's and O'Hara's daughter.Jack Kruschen plays a friend of the family and store keeper. Always a good character actor, he's especially good here, being rather sensitive to everyone else's needs.Chill Wills is a key supporting actor here, playing Wayne's rather domesticated sidekick. Generally, I very much disliked Wills in almost every film he was ever in. But, once in a blue moon, when he restrained himself just a bit, he could be very engaging...and he is that here. I really enjoyed this performance.Jerry Van Dyke is quite entertaining here as another love interest her for Powers, albeit a "city slicker" type. To be honest, II always thought he was talented than his brother.Also in the cast are supporting actors (many of whom were in many John Wayne movies): Edgar Buchanan, Bruce Cabot, Perry Lopez (who though actually Puerto Rican played a "modern Indian" who suffered from racial prejudice), Strother Martin, Michael Pate, (ex-cowboy star) Bob Steele, and others.The brawl about 45 minutes into the film is probably the funniest darn brawl ever filmed for a Western, and, to a large extent, the actual actors did some of their own stunts, including both Wayne and O'Hara who slide down a hill in slick clay-mud. It's a hoot.Another particularly good scene is when Wayne explains to his daughter why she isn't inheriting the huge ranch. It's a particularly good soliloquy by John Wayne.So what you really have here is a romantic comedy, which just happens to be a Western. However, there's still plenty of action -- cattle ranching, fighting, and an Indian uprising. It's a great film, and one of John Wayne's most entertaining.I have the Blu Ray version put out by Paramount, and it is wonderful color and clarity.

If John Ford had ever directed a Disney film, it might have looked something like MCLINTOCK!, an amiable comic romp starring John Wayne in the title role & the striking Maureen O'Hara as his wildly unpleasant wife. The movie, at just over 2 hours, is perhaps a bit too long and features one too many subplots, but is still rollicking entertainment, directed with a lot of finesse by Andrew V. McLaglen. Wayne & O'Hara, in the fourth of their five screen pairings, obviously have a lot of chemistry. They're dynamite together. The film focuses on their battles to either divorce or get back together. It moves from one to another with a lot of speed. The exceptionally bright supporting cast includes Stefanie Powers, Edgar Buchanan, Chill Wills, Bruce Cabot, Jack Kruschen and Yvonne DeCarlo. Wayne's son Patrick also has a sizable role and Strother Martin is a scene-stealer as an ineffectual government man. Somehow, the always annoying Jerry Van Dyke is given a fairly prominent role. The high gloss cinematography is by William H. Clothier.

John Wayne stars as George Washington McLintock, a wealthy but benevolent cattle baron who has to deal with an increasing number of homesteaders who have been given land grants by the government to farm, which he is very skeptical about, but cannot change. He even hires one of them, an ambitious young man(played by his son Patrick Wayne) along with his mother and sister. They will come to be close to him after his daughter Becky(played by Stefanie Powers) comes to visit from college, along with his estranged wife Katherine Gilhooley McLintock(played by frequent costar Maureen Ohara). He secretly is still in love with her, and will try most earnestly to win her back, despite her stubborn defiance.Not particularly funny, and most definitely overlong romp doesn't seem to have much point at all, though it is amiable enough I suppose, with a protracted and inevitable conclusion.

Looking at the reviews on this site, it appears this film has many fans. I cannot understand why.First of all, the script has no charm. I loved Wayne and O'Hara in The Quiet Man, but here they are working with a script that more closely resembles a Road Runner cartoon (mug for the camera, hit someone over the head with the nearest object, then fall hilariously over your own feet!).Saying that the concept is based upon The Taming of the Shrew does not make it better.Everything that happens in the film is broadcast in advance. There are no surprises. Slapstick can be an art, but here there is no joy in it. I don't mean to belittle the opinions of others. Everyone is entitled to his own opinion. But I found no genuine laughs in this movie. There are so many other worthy films out there.