John Wayne's most popular film of the 60s is a broad, boisterous comedy-western loosely based on William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. Wayne, in his two-fisted best, stars as a George Washington McLintock, a middle-aged cattle baron who has his hands full with his estranged wife, played by Maureen O'Hara. Verbal fireworks explode, slapstick pratfalls bloom, and the Wayne-O'Hara reconciliation culminates with the biggest mud-hole brawl this side of the Mississippi.