McLintock! (1963)
Plays here · source: Internet Archive
Wealthy cattle baron G.W. McLintock squares off with his estranged wife Katherine, home to finalize their divorce, while their headstrong daughter's return and a land dispute with the local Comanche stir up the whole territory around them.
A loose, boisterous transplant of The Taming of the Shrew to the Old West, McLintock! reunited John Wayne with Maureen O’Hara for the fourth of five pairings, and thanks to a lapsed copyright renewal it stands as one of the most famous accidental gifts to the public domain in Hollywood history — even as Wayne’s own Batjac Productions still guards the restored prints and the rights to Frank De Vol’s score.
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