This John Wayne Western Rom-Com Was Based on a Shakespeare Play
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. Ironically, it was within the bizarre Western McLintock! that he got to do all of those things, as the 1963 adventure film took inspiration from the works of William Shakespeare to create one of the weirdest movies Wayne ever appeared in.
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