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==Reception== The film was a box-office success, and a timely one, since ''[[The Alamo (1960 film)|The Alamo]]'' had cost Wayne in both financial and "box-office capital" terms.<ref>{{cite web| title=McLintock! Article | url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/83151/mclintock#articles-reviews | publisher=[[Turner Classic Movies]]| first= Jay S.| last= Steinberg| access-date=2022-09-26}}</ref> ''McLintock!'' grossed $14,500,000 in North America,<ref name="numbers"/> earning $7.25 million in US [[Gross rental|theatrical rentals]].<ref>"Top Rental Films of 1963", ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'', 8 January 1964 p 37. Please note this figure is film [[Gross rental|rentals]] accruing to distributors, not gross takings.</ref> Andrew McLaglen said the film "put me in the big time."<ref>{{cite web|title=Andrew V. McLaglen: Last of the Hollywood Professionals|first=Wheeler Winston|last=Dixon|date=April 2009|url=http://sensesofcinema.com/2009/conversations-on-film/andrew-v-mclaglen-interview/|access-date=2017-02-01|archive-date=2021-05-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210520193751/https://www.facebook.com/v2.0/plugins/like.php?action=like&app_id=&channel=https%3A%2F%2Fstaticxx.facebook.com%2Fx%2Fconnect%2Fxd_arbiter%2F%3Fversion%3D46%23cb%3Df9d574538b9a28%26domain%3Dwww.sensesofcinema.com%26origin%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.sensesofcinema.com%252Ff368398d4e3dc1%26relation%3Dparent.parent&container_width=0&href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sensesofcinema.com%2F2009%2Fconversations-on-film%2Fandrew-v-mclaglen-interview%2F&layout=box_count&locale=en_US&sdk=joey&share=false&show_faces=false|url-status=live}}</ref> He made four more films with Wayne: ''[[Hellfighters (film)|Hellfighters]]'' (1968), ''[[The Undefeated (1969 film)|The Undefeated]]'' (1969), ''[[Chisum]]'' (1970), and ''[[Cahill U.S. Marshal|Cahill, U.S. Marshal]]'' (1973). [[File:John Wayne-Michael Pate in McLintock!.jpg|thumb|John Wayne and Michael Pate as G.W. McLintock and Comanche Chief Puma (Pate is in [[redface]]).]] [[File:Patrick Wayne in Mclintock.jpg|thumb|John Wayne watches as Patrick Wayne spanks Stefanie Powers.]] According to [[Bosley Crowther]], "the broadly comic Western ... sounded like a promising idea"; "the scenery is opulent and the action out-of-doors, the color lush, and the cast made up almost entirely of recruits from [[John Ford]]'s long cinematic cycle commemorating the tradition of the [[American frontier]]."<ref name="nyt63">{{Cite news| title=McLintock! (1963)| date=November 14, 1963| first=Bosley| last=Crowther| url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9901E2D9123AE13BBC4C52DFB7678388679EDE| newspaper=The New York Times| access-date=2012-05-20| archive-date=2021-05-20| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210520193746/https://www.nytimes.com/1963/11/14/archives/the-screen-take-her-shes-minejames-stewart-is-star-of-play.html| url-status=live}}</ref> Since "the direction was entrusted to a relative newcomer, [[Victor McLaglen]]'s television-trained son, [[Andrew V. McLaglen]] ... good intentions, when the task at hand is as difficult as lusty [[farce]], are not enough."<ref name="nyt63"/> [[Emanuel Levy]], in a review years after the film's release, said the film is "significant because it marks the beginning of Wayne's attempt to impose his general views, not just political ones, on his pictures. Most of Wayne's screen work after ''McLintock!'' would express his opinions about education, family, economics, and even friendship."<ref name="levy">{{cite web| title= McLintock!| url= http://www.emanuellevy.com/review/mclintock-4/| publisher= EmanuelLevy.com| first= Emanuel| last= Levy| date= July 31, 2006| access-date= 2012-05-20| archive-date= 2021-05-20| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210520193812/https://emanuellevy.com/review/mclintock-4/| url-status= live}}</ref>
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