Something Big – A man kidnaps the wife of a cavalry commander in order to exchange her for a Gatling gun that’s being sold by a gun runner.
Something big(1971):
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Writer: James Lee Barrett
Stars: Dean Martin, Brian Keith, Carol White
Genres: Comedy, Western
Country: USA
Language: English
Filming Locations: Durango, Mexico
Storyline:
Joe Baker has a dream. He wants to do ‘something big.’ When he needs a Gatling gun to accomplish this, he seeks out a black marketeer. The price he wants for the gun? A woman! So Baker kidnaps a woman off of the stagecoach, only to find that she is the wife of the commandant of the local Cavalry detachment. Things get further complicated when a girl named Dover McBride shows up. She has come to force Baker to marry her and return east, as he promised to do four years earlier. Written by Alfred Jingle
Review:
While stationed in Thailand in 1972 during the Vietnam War, I had an opportunity to get a part-time job operating a movie projector at the base theater for the midnight show. One of the films I was fortunate to show was "Somthing Big", a rowdy, unpretentious western with a fun and talented cast headed by Dean Martin, Brian Keith, Albert Salmi and Honor Blackman. The film’s strongest point is that it didn’t take itself too seriously, yet still presented a fine array of subplots and character studies that nicely wove themselves together to a rousing finale. What has stuck out most in my mind for over the past 30+ years, however, was the movie’s theme song. Like the film itself, the title song was a joyous and melodic tribute to the desire in everyone to reach for that star in the heavens, or that impossible dream. It is disappointing that the film never made it to VHS or DVD. If it ever shows up on cable TV, don’t miss an opportunity to see this lost guilty pleasure. Written by Thinman2001.
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