Movies love to retell Shakespeare, and John Wayne's Western McLintock! puts a new twist on the timeless tale, The Taming of the Shrew.
John Wayne had an absolute monopoly over the greatest Western characters of all-time for almost three decades. After his star-making performance in John Ford’s influential 1939 classic Stagecoach, Wayne starred in innumerable films within the Western genre for filmmakers like Howard Hawks and William Wellman. Wayne could have probably starred in nothing but Westerns for his entire career, but toward the back half of his filmography, he tried his hand at historical epics, romances, and comedies.
John Wayne Doing Shakespeare McLintock! was directed by his frequent collaborator Andrew V. McLaglen, a solid “workman” filmmaker who directed many Western films for both Wayne and his close friend Jimmy Stewart. While Wayne was generally cast as mercenaries or outlaws, McLintock! saddled him for a slightly unusual role as the aging rancher George Washington McLintock, who must defend his farmland from being trod upon by various rivals that threaten to take a portion for themselves.
Prior to appearing in McLintock! together, Wayne and O’Hara did some of the best work of their respective careers in Ford’s 1952 timeless classic The Quiet Man. In The Quiet Man, Wayne stars as boxer Sean Thorton, who returns from America to his Irish hometown of Innisfree, where he falls in love with the feisty Irish woman Mary Kate Danaher .
That being said, Wayne is also credited in helping to craft the story, and clearly had a role in expressing some of his personal beliefs within the film’s narrative. Essentially, McLintock sees the government’s efforts to impede his land as a mistake that leads to chaos within the town. While the madness that ensues is dialed up for comedic relief, it’s clearly a cry for the type of limited government that Wayne so often advocated for.
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