It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

The movie really just wants to entertain people.

MCLINTOCK! is a familiar western for star John Wayne with a greater lightness of touch than usual, making this an out-and-out comedy at times. Once again the story mixes together ranchers, land owners, government corruption, and ruthless officials, with Wayne a steadying presence at the centre of the production as he attempts to hold everything together. The comedy is often broad and some of it is more than a little sexist by modern standards (check out the film's poster for the most crushing example of this) but there are some highlights here like the big brawl in the mud pit. Wayne gives more prominence to female characters than ever, with Maureen O'Hara matching him, Yvonne De Carlo cameoing, and Stefanie Powers looking young and beautiful.

Got nothing else to do so let's make a comedy, drama, Shake-a-Speer rip off western on the cheep so we can recoup some of the money we lost from the Alamo disaster. Some great film making came out of this era but this one is not to be taken seriously. So light hearted & slap stick, it just struck me as stupid. Were the audiences so pedestrian back then that they bought the John Wayne as the most high, all wise Character he portrays. There is nothing to like about Maureen O'Hara's character either. In fact, I couldn't find any likable characters. I did feel sorry for those Indian extra's. They looked really bored. The good guys always win but sometimes the audience looses. But just stick in a happy ending, wait I missed the ending. Had to do fold laundry or something like that.

Wealthy cattle baron George Washington McLintock (John Wayne) has his hands full dealing with land grabbers and crooked politicians. Now his estranged hot-tempered wife Katherine (Maureen O'Hara) returns to take their daughter Becky (Stefanie Powers) back with her to the "civilized" East. I think this is John Wayne's best comedy. Any movie with Wayne and O'Hara together is worth seeing. They're both great here. Excellent supporting cast. Most famous for being the movie where Duke chases Maureen O'Hara and finally spanks her in front of the entire town. Easily offended types should avoid this like the plague. Everybody else sit back and enjoy a fun movie.

Never before and probably never again - one of the best Western movie brawls ever features John Wayne, Chill Wills, Edgar Buchanan, Gordon Jones, Leo Gordon, Patrick Wayne, Strother Martin and even Maureen O'Hara soaked in a mud-hole and enjoying every minute of it. I'm probably missing someone to boot, but as far as raucous, all out fun goes in movie Westerns, this is about as wild as it gets. Whoever got the laundry concession for this picture cleaned up, literally and figuratively. What a mess! I wouldn't doubt that this was one of John Wayne's favorite films and favorite pairings with co-star Maureen O'Hara. O'Hara stands out as the back-East returning wife with a bone to pick with husband McLintock (Wayne), and her brightly colored outfits stand out convincingly against the drab brown backgrounds provided by the town and it's citizens alike. Today, the PC police would be all over this film for it's treatment of women, native-Americans, heck, even the cattle, but when the picture was made America was still pretty much a land where you could make it on your own without government interference promoting itself with a handout instead of a hand up. That message won't be lost on viewers watching today, and for John Wayne fans, this offers The Duke in all his glory.