Editing McLintock!

{{short description|1963 film by Andrew V. McLaglen}}
:''See also [[McClintock (disambiguation)]]''
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{{Infobox film
| name           = McLintock!
| caption        = Theatrical film poster
| image          = Mclintockposter.jpg
| producer       = [[Michael Wayne]]
| director       = [[Andrew V. McLaglen]]
| writer         = [[James Edward Grant]]
| starring       = {{plainlist|
* [[John Wayne]]
* [[Maureen O'Hara]]
}}
| music          = [[De Vol]]
| cinematography = [[William H. Clothier]]
| editing        = [[Otho Lovering]]<br>Bill Lewis
| studio         = [[Batjac Productions]]
| distributor    = [[United Artists]]
| released       = {{film date|1963|11|13}}
| runtime        = 127 minutes
| language       = English
| budget         = $4&nbsp;million<ref name="wayne">{{cite news|title=John Wayne's Latest Film a Family Affair|last=Smith|first= Jack|newspaper= Los Angeles Times|date=25 Nov 1963|page= A3}}</ref> 
| gross          = $14.5&nbsp;million<ref name="numbers">[http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/1963/0MCLN.php Box Office Information for ''McLintock!''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210520193756/https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/McLintock |date=2021-05-20 }} [[The Numbers (website)|The Numbers]]. Retrieved September 5, 2013.</ref>
}}

'''''McLintock!''''' is a 1963 American [[Western (genre)|Western]] [[comedy film|comedy]] film, starring [[John Wayne]] and [[Maureen O'Hara]], directed by [[Andrew V. McLaglen]]. The film co-stars Wayne's son [[Patrick Wayne]], [[Stefanie Powers]], [[Jack Kruschen]], [[Chill Wills]], and [[Yvonne De Carlo]] (billed as special guest star). Loosely based on [[William Shakespeare]]'s ''[[The Taming of the Shrew]]'', the project was filmed in [[Technicolor]] and [[Panavision]], and produced by Wayne's company, [[Batjac Productions]].

In 1991, the film entered the [[List of films in the public domain in the United States|public domain in the United States]] because the claimants did not renew its [[copyright registration]] in the 28th year after publication.

==Plot==
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The year is 1895. [[Cattle baron]] and town namesake George Washington "G.W." McLintock lives as a bachelor on his ranch on the Mesa Verde. His wife, Katherine, abandoned him with no explanation and became a [[socialite]] back East two years prior; his daughter, Rebecca "Becky" McLintock, is away finishing her college degree. In town, G.W. is disliked by bureaucrat Matt Douglas, Indian agent Agard, and Governor Cuthbert H. Humphrey. Despite this, he is a friend to many, including Sheriff Lord, [[general store]] owner Jake Birnbaum, and the local [[homeless people|beggars]] and [[Comanche]] [[Native Americans in the United States|Indians]].

While inspecting a shipment of cattle, G.W. warns a group of [[homesteaders]] that the Mesa Verde is unsuitable for farming; an earlier group of homesteaders tried, but failed because of insufficient rain for growing crops. Devlin "Dev" Warren, a young man with a widowed mother and sister to support, asks G.W. for a job. G.W. initially refuses, but relents after Dev resorts to begging at the advice of aged drifter Bunny. Dev then lashes out in disgust after having to beg for a job. However, G.W. still hires him and also hires Dev's mother, Mrs. Warren, after tasting her cooking. G.W. then learns Katherine is in town seeking a divorce, which will give her a excuse to take Becky back East with her; hearing this, G.W. refuses. Katherine then decides to move back onto the ranch, and starts bossing everyone around, including Mrs. Warren.

The Comanche, led by Running Buffalo, come into town to meet a train carrying their newly-released chiefs; Sheriff Lord settles them near the homesteaders despite protests from Douglas. When a homesteader's daughter wanders off with her suitor, Douglas and the homesteaders assume the Comanche took her, and attempt to lynch Running Buffalo in retaliation. G.W. and his men try to defuse the situation, but a brawl ensues, with Katherine joining in on G.W.'s side.

The next day, Becky arrives home from college with a would-be suitor, Douglas' son "Junior." G.W. disapproves of Junior, so Katherine makes a show of approving to spite him. Also aboard Becky's train are four Comanche chiefs, one of whom is G.W.'s former-enemy-turned-blood-brother Chief Puma. They have arrived for a hearing to determine if their people will be sent to a [[Indian Reservation|reservation]] in [[Fort Sill, Oklahoma]]. G.W. agrees to speak at the hearing on their behalf.

While preparing for Becky's welcome-home party, Dev and Becky get into an argument when he accuses Junior of being a "[[dandy|dude]]." At the party, Dev gets into a fistfight to protect Birnbaum's assistant Davy, and impresses everyone with his boxing skills. Later, after being deliberately taunted by Becky and Junior, Dev accuses Becky of being a [[trollop]] for kissing Junior before they were properly engaged. Becky demands G.W. shoot Dev for insulting her; G.W. relents and "shoots" him with a [[starter's pistol]] to teach Becky a lesson. Dev, angry that he could have been killed, spanks Becky with a [[coal shovel]], which angers Katherine.

At the hearing the next day, G.W. delivers a plea from Puma to Governor Humphrey, but is ignored; as a result, the Comanche are ordered to be imprisoned until they can be sent to Fort Sill. Getting drunk that night, G.W. suggests to Bunny that, if the Comanche were to go out fighting as they requested, the [[U.S. Government|Government]] might realize Humphrey's mismanagement of the territory and intervene.

G.W. returns home and pressures Mrs. Warren into drinking with him; while she tries to explain to G.W. that she is quitting as cook, Mrs. Warren eventually gives in. The two end up falling down the stairs while trying to turn in for the night. Katherine, overhearing their conversation, assumes the worst when she sees Mrs. Warren on G.W.'s lap at the foot of the stairs. Mrs. Warren then explains she is quitting because Sheriff Lord has asked her to marry him.

At the [[Fourth of July]] celebrations the next day, Katherine refuses Humphrey's advances, but continues to treat her husband harshly. Bunny, who took G.W. seriously, helps set the Comanches free by suppyling them with [[Krag–Jørgensen|Krag-Jorgensen]] military rifles from a military boxcar. The Comanches then charge through town, free their chiefs, and escape with the cavalry in hot pursuit. While hiding in a haystack during the raid, Dev and Becky reconcile and become engaged. Encouraged by this, and on advice from Birnbaum, G.W. confronts Katherine, getting her to admit that she left because she found lipstick on his shirt and incorrectly assumed he was having an affair. After pursuing her through town and publicly spanking her, G.W. tells Katherine that she is now free to divorce him, and leaves for home. However, she follows him, and the two reconcile.

==Cast==
[[File:Yvonne De Carlo Mclintock 01.jpg|upright|thumb|Yvonne De Carlo as Mrs. Warren]]
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* [[John Wayne]] as George Washington "G.W." McLintock
* [[Maureen O'Hara]] as Katherine "Kate" McLintock
* [[Patrick Wayne]] as Devlin "Dev" Warren
* [[Stefanie Powers]] as Rebecca "Becky" McLintock
* [[Jack Kruschen]] as Jake Birnbaum
* [[Chill Wills]] as Drago
* [[Yvonne De Carlo]] as Louise Warren
* [[Jerry Van Dyke]] as Matt Douglas Jr.
* [[Edgar Buchanan]] as Bunny Dull
* [[Perry Lopez]] as Davey Elk
* [[Strother Martin]] as Agard
* [[Gordon Jones (actor)|Gordon Jones]] as Matt Douglas
* [[Robert Lowery (actor)|Robert Lowery]] as Gov. Cuthbert H. Humphrey <!-- (a reference to [[Hubert Humphrey|Hubert H. Humphrey]]<ref name="levy"/>) -->
* [[Hank Worden]] as Curly Fletcher
* [[Michael Pate]] as Puma, Chief of the Comanche Nation
* [[Bruce Cabot]] as Ben Sage, Sr.
* [[Edward Faulkner]] as Ben Sage, Jr.
* [[Mari Blanchard]] as Camille
* [[Leo Gordon]] as Jones
* [[Chuck Roberson]] as Sheriff Jeff Lord
* [[Bob Steele (actor)|Bob Steele]] as Train Engineer
* Aissa Wayne as Alice Warren
* [[Big John Hamilton (actor)|"Big" John Hamilton]] as Fauntleroy Sage
* [[H.W. Gim]] as Ching
* John Stanley (uncredited) as Running Buffalo
{{div col end}}

==Production==
The script was developed by John Wayne as a way for him to express his disapproval for how Westerns negatively represent Native Americans, his opinions on marital abuse, and discontent for political corruption from either party, intentionally contrasting previous films in which Wayne starred but had little creative-control, such as John Ford's ''[[The Searchers]]''. Another sharp contrast from previous films of Wayne is the emphasis on comedy, and using the Western setting for slapstick possibilities. He offered the job of directing to Andrew McLaglen, son to Wayne's longtime co-star [[Victor McLaglen]], who had directed a number of low-budget features and had worked widely in television. It was the first movie fully produced by Wayne's son, Michael, although Michael Wayne had worked on a number of other films in various capacities. The male juvenile lead was John Wayne's younger son, Patrick.<ref name="wayne"/>

[[Henry Hathaway]] said he was going to direct the film but Wayne was not willing to pay his fee.<ref name="hen">{{cite magazine|magazine=Take One|first=Scott|last=Eyman|title='I made movies' an interview with Henry Hathaway|url=https://archive.org/details/sim_take-one_september-october-1974_5_1/page/8/mode/1up|date=September–October 1974|page=12}}</ref>

The film was shot at [[Old Tucson Studios]], west of Tucson, Arizona, and at [[San Rafael Ranch|San Rafael Ranch House]] - [[San Rafael Valley|San Rafael State Natural Area]], south of [[Patagonia, Arizona]], and [[Nogales, Arizona|Nogales]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057298/locations | title=Locations for ''McLintock!'' | publisher=[[IMDb]] | access-date=February 25, 2015 | archive-date=May 20, 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210520193745/https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057298/locations | url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="wayne"/> Although the name of the territory is never mentioned, and the [[Mesa Verde region]] where the film is set is located predominantly in Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah, in the court scene, the flag of Arizona is seen alongside the U.S. flag, although the flag of Arizona was not created until 1917.

Many of the cast and crew, including Andrew McLaglen, William H. Clothier, Bruce Cabot, Chill Wills, Edward Faulkner, Hank Worden, Strother Martin, Michael Pate, Leo Gordon, Chuck Roberson, John Stanley (the Navajo actor and veteran member of John Ford's stock company, who plays "Running Buffalo"), Patrick and Aissa Wayne, as well as Maureen O'Hara, had worked with Wayne on other productions. Wayne insisted a supporting role be given to Yvonne De Carlo, whose [[Yvonne de Carlo#Marriage|husband]] had been injured making ''[[How the West Was Won (film)|How the West Was Won]].''<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/83151/mclintock#articles-reviews|website=[[Turner Classic Movies]]|title=McLintock|first=Jay S.|last=Steinberg}}</ref> Michael Wayne estimated the budget as being $3.5 to $4.0&nbsp;million.<ref name="wayne"/>

As in many other John Wayne films, Wayne is wearing his favorite "Red River D" belt buckle. It can be best seen in the scene where G.W. addresses the homesteaders about 10 minutes into the film, and at the end of the scene where the Comanche ride through town on the way to "the last fight of the Comanche," around 10 minutes from the end of the movie.

In the DVD Special Feature "Maureen O'Hara and Stefanie Powers Remember ''McLintock!''," O'Hara reported that when  Wayne and she filmed the famous scene in which he spanked her with a coal scuttle shovel, he did not pull his strokes. "He really spanked me! My bottom was black and blue for weeks!"<ref>McLintock! Collectors Edition DVD. Released October 11, 2005. ASIN: B000ANVPPQ</ref>

==Music==
[[File:Stefanie Powers-Jerry Van Dyke in McLintock!.jpg|thumb|{{center|[[Stefanie Powers]] and [[Jerry Van Dyke]] }}]]
*"Love in the Country" sung by [[The Limeliters]]
*Music coordinator: [["By" Dunham]]
*"Love in the Country" words and music by "By" Dunham and [[Frank DeVol]]
*"Just Right for Me", "Cakewalk", "When We Dance" words and music by "By" Dunham

==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&nbsp;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&nbsp;... 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]]&nbsp;... 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>

==Novelization==
[[Richard Wormser]] wrote a novelization of the screenplay.<ref>{{cite book| title= McLintock | first= Richard |last=Wormser | publisher= Fawcett | location= [[Greenwich, Connecticut]] | series= Gold Metal |year= 1963 | oclc= 28658671}}</ref>

==Public domain status==
The film was produced by John Wayne's Batjac Productions and released through [[United Artists]]. Batjac failed to renew the copyright, which expired in 1991. In 1994, a legal case determined the film was in the [[List of films in the public domain in the United States|public domain in the United States]], but the music score remained under copyright.<ref name=bbmay1994>"Court Rules for 'Goodtimes' in ''McLintock!'' Case", in ''Billboard'', May 14, 1994, [https://books.google.com/books?id=SggEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA73 pg. 73 & 82]</ref><ref name=fishman337>Fishman, Stephen (2010), pp.337{{Full citation needed|date=November 2012}}</ref><ref>Batjac Productions, Inc. vs. GoodTimes Home Video Corp.—1998 Copr.L.Dec. P 27,825, 48 U.S.P.Q.2d 1647, 98 Cal. Daily Op. Serv. 8208, 98 Daily Journal D.A.R. 11,443. BATJAC
PRODUCTIONS INC., a California Corp., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. GOODTIMES HOME VIDEO CORP., a Delaware Corp.; Marybeth Peters, Register of Copyrights, Defendants-Appellees. No. 97-55947. United States Court of
Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and submitted Aug. 5, 1998. Decided Nov. 5, 1998.</ref><ref>Maljack Productions vs. UAV Corp.—May 21, 1997.  MALJACK PRODUCTIONS, INC., an Illinois corporation, and BATJAC
PRODUCTIONS, INC., a California corporation, Plaintiffs, v. UAV CORPORATION, a North Carolina corporation, and MARY BETH PETERS, Register of Copyrights, Defendants. CONSOLIDATED WITH BATJAC PRODUCTIONS, INC., a
California Corporation, Plaintiff, v. GOODTIMES HOME VIDEO CORP., a Delaware corporation, and MARY BETH PETERS, Register of Copyrights, Defendants.</ref>

Batjac Productions, a company now owned by John Wayne's estate, retains distribution rights for "officially restored" versions of the film and holds the original film negatives, as well as rights to the film's musical score.

==Home media==
Despite being available in the public domain by various distributors for the past decade (including GoodTimes Home Video and Simitar Entertainment), the first official home video issue of the film was released in the mid-1990s by [[MPI Home Video]]. In 2005, [[Paramount Home Entertainment]] struck a distribution deal with Batjac (which owns the original film negatives) and was granted exclusive distribution rights for an official remastered release debuting on DVD in 2005. This "official" DVD release uses a restoration made from the original camera negative, under license from Batjac, with a newly created 5.1 surround mix and the original monoaural. Bonus features include a new extensive documentary, a "2 Minute Fight School" featurette, photo and trailer galleries, and an audio commentary with Leonard Maltin, Frank Thompson, Maureen O'Hara, Stefanie Powers, Michael Pate, Michael Wayne, and Andrew McLaglen. In spite of this licensed release, numerous versions of the film are still being released by other companies, with most using old TV prints and film elements outside of Batjac's official restoration.

Olive Films released a bare-bones Blu-Ray in March 2013, using a 2012 2K scan of a 35-mm Technicolor element with the original monoaural track. Olive's release had no involvement from Batjac Productions, as the 2K restoration was provided by the Library of Congress and is classified as public domain, whereas the "official" restoration is copyrighted to Batjac with Paramount handling exclusive distribution.

Paramount followed up in May 2014 with their Blu-Ray release, under license from Batjac Productions. This release uses a brand new 4K remaster from the original camera negative with Dolby TrueHD 5.1 surround and original mono. It also carries over all the bonus features from the previous Paramount DVD, with the only new addition of the original theatrical trailer scanned in 2K from a 35-mm element.

==Comic-book adaption==
* [[Gold Key Comics|Gold Key]]: ''McLintock!'' (March 1964)<ref>{{gcdb issue|id=18284|title=Gold Key: ''McLintock!''}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[List of American films of 1963]]
* [[John Wayne filmography]]
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==References==
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==External links==
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* {{IMDb title|0057298|McLintock!}}
* {{rotten-tomatoes|mclintock}}
* {{TCMDb title|id=83151}}
* {{AFI film|id=21556|title=McLintock!}}
* {{Internet Archive film|id=Mclintock.avi}} (also [https://archive.org/details/mclintok_widescreen widescreen version])

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