Lack of good storyline.

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

I like my Westerns well more like the Wild West than a tamed West with one exception; If the story is a good one. Here, you don't need a story and as a comedy, it does what it wants when it wants it. Why? Because of all the star power in this movie. We have everyone playing their parts to the hilt perhaps over the top and then coming back to reality because there is only so much over-emphasizing you can do in acting unless you are making a Three Stooges Short. I like John Wayne and his work. I had trouble adjusting to him playing this comedy role but I still managed to enjoy his persona and mannerisms which makes him what he is. Western life was often hard, brutal, unfair and consisted of survival behaviors allowing settlers to live from season to season. There were no guarantees and often one had to learn to go with the flow or be run over. Many turned back and gave up after year two. One good storm or one good mistake would do it. In this movie, nothing can wrong for anyone who is on the screen. Everything has been tamed, watered down and reduced to story telling not actual show and tell. So they create mayhem, mishaps, human drama, love interests, the town drunk, saloon girls, whiskey, horse, cows and Indians sort of like throwing them all together but done for laughs sake. I guess I am used to having my Westerns straight-up and down-home. Please don't let me discourage anyone from watching because as comedy goes, they did set it up for laughs and this was a successful film for its day. Good movie to snack with plus a tasty drink and enjoy all these acting pros well-known and otherwise as they deliver us this story for our entertainment

. . . incest, and Indian massacres. As the title character of McLINTOCK!, John Wayne welcomes "Sooners" (or newbie farmers) to his namesake cattle country town because he knows that they'll need to buy all the varieties of his meat. Besides peddling steaks and rump roasts, McLINTOCK's running this hamlet's only bordello (a.k.a., "McLINTOCK Hotel"). His harem of busty trollops is on review here several times, led by the most buxom wrestling his estranged wife (Maureen O'Hara) in a water-filled horse trough. It's no wonder Kate's estranged, since John's McLINTOCK is promoting the breeding of his Real Life son (Patrick) with their film daughter "Becky." Patrick's "Devlin" also is the screen brother to Wayne's Real Life daughter Aissa, which makes his coupling with Becky some sort of double incest. Since McLINTOCK allegedly has a soft spot for the last handful of surviving Commanches, he engineers a suicide charge for them in one of this flick's final scenes, which ends with an overwhelming contingent of U.S. Cavalry being shown herding these men, women, and kids to their Final Destination--ISIS-style. When you throw in all the male-on-female spanking scenes, rolls-in-the-hay, and mud-wrestling to the prostitution, incest, and genocide, you wind up with what passed for a barrel of "Good, Clean, Family Fun" during the Free Love Sixties.

This is a John Wayne film from the 1960s. There will be spoilers ahead:This is one of John Wayne's lighter comedic films, with resonances to other John Wayne films scattered throughout, starting with the cast, which is studded with regulars in front of and behind the camera, including some of his children. Son Michael produced, son Patrick and daughter Aissa acted.The director, Andrew V. McLaglen, is the son of Victor McLaglen, a Wayne and John Ford regular. Maureen O'Hara did several films with Wayne, as did Bruce Cabot, Chill Wills, Leo Gordon and Hank Worden, among others.The film itself has been compared to The Taming of the Shrew, with considerable justice, but there are echoes of other Wayne films, most notably The Quiet Man. In fact, the final confrontation between Wayne and O'Hara is a lot like a scene in The Quiet Man.G.W. McLintock is a character very much in the John Wayne mold-a self-made business man who's become wealthy through hard work and determination. His wife Katherine (it doesn't even try for subtlety on some points) wishes to forget her humble roots and wants a divorce, wanting to raise their daughter in a grand style, far from the rough town she grew up in. McLintock refuses the divorce, wanting his wife back because he still loves her. That's pretty much the plot, though there are sub-plots of competing suitors for the daughter's affections and the return of some Comanche chiefs.The highlights of the film are a brawl which may well be the best fight between multiple combatants in any Wayne film and the final showdown between G.W. and Katie. Jerry van Dyke has a funny turn in what's probably the best part he ever had in features and possibly in his whole career. Yvonne de Carlo has a couple of good scenes as a widow McLintock hires as a cook, along with her son, Dev, who is played by Wayne's son Patrick.Nice little movie, a fun way to spend a couple of hours. It's available on DVD and I believe there's now a Blu Ray as well. Recommended.

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.