Ageing, wealthy, rancher and self-made man, George Washington McLintock is forced to deal with numerous personal and professional problems. Seemingly everyone wants a piece of his enormous farmstead, including high-ranking government men and nearby Native Americans. As McLintock tries to juggle his various adversaries, his wife—who left him two years previously—suddenly returns. But she isn't interested in George; she wants custody of their daughter.
Ageing, wealthy, rancher and self-made man, George Washington McLintock is forced to deal with numerous personal and professional problems. Seemingly everyone wants a piece of his enormous farmstead, including high-ranking government men and nearby Native Americans. As McLintock tries to juggle his various adversaries, his wife—who left him two years previously—suddenly returns. But she isn't interested in George; she wants custody of their daughter.
The film's central thesis explicitly promotes traditional gender roles, patriarchal family structures, and individualistic solutions to societal problems, often critiquing government overreach and romanticizing a self-reliant frontier lifestyle.
The movie features traditional casting with a predominantly white main cast, consistent with its genre and era. Its narrative positively frames traditional identities, particularly the white male protagonist, and does not incorporate explicit DEI critiques or themes as central to its story.
The film portrays a frontier community where Christian values and institutions, represented by a respected if comically flustered minister, are present and generally affirmed. The narrative does not critique the faith itself but rather uses characters for comedic effect within a respectful framework, aligning with the virtues of the faith.
McLintock! is a 1963 Western film that does not include any discernible LGBTQ+ characters or themes. The narrative focuses on traditional Western tropes, family dynamics, and comedic elements, with no representation of queer identity or experiences.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
McLintock! is an original film from 1963, not an adaptation of prior source material or a biopic. All characters were created for this specific movie, establishing their genders for the first time within this context. Therefore, no character's gender could have been swapped from a pre-existing canon.
McLintock! is an original film from 1963 with characters created for the movie. There is no prior source material (novels, comics, earlier films) or historical figures for its characters, thus no established racial baseline to constitute a race swap.
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