John Wayne's "MCLINTOCK!"

"MCLINTOCK!"
Starring: John Wayne, With Maureen O’Hara, Patrick Wayne, Stefanie Powers, Yvonne De Carlo.
Released: November 13, 1963
color/127 min.
Filmvendor: Public Domain



"McLintock!" is a 1963 comedy Western starring John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara, and loosely based on Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. The film is famous (or infamous) for its two spanking scenes, in which mother and daughter are each paddled with coal shovels: the daughter by her suitor, the mother by her estranged husband.


Richard Wormser wrote a novelisation of the screenplay.


Produced by John Wayne's Batjac Productions for United Artists, John Wayne's estate retained the rights to the film. Legal suits prevented the film's copyright from being renewed, causing the film to enter the public domain.


Despite being available in public domain distributors for the past decade, the first official home video issue of the film was released in the mid-1990s by MPI Home Video. Years later, in 2005, Paramount struck a distribution deal with Batjac and thus is now the home video rights holder for this film.