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19/11/1971 Western, Comedy 1h 48m
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Sooner or later, Baker will find the right girl. And when he does, he'll swap her for a machine gun. And do something big.

Overview

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

  1. Andrew V. McLaglen

    Director

  2. James Lee Barrett

    Writer

Top billed cast

  1. Dean Martin

    Joe Baker

  2. Brian Keith

    Col. Morgan

  3. Carol White

    Dover McBride

  4. Honor Blackman

    Mary Anna Morgan

  5. Ben Johnson

    Jesse Bookbinder

  6. Albert Salmi

    Jonny Cobb

  7. Don Knight

    Tommy McBride

  8. Joyce Van Patten

    Polly Standall

  9. Denver Pyle

    Junior Frisbee

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Reviews

A review by Wuchak
Written by Wuchak on 2018-03-23
Something mediocre

RELEASED IN 1971 and directed by Andrew V. McLaglen, "Something Big" is a tongue-in-cheek Western starring Dean Martin as aging outlaw, Joe Baker, who unknowingly kidnaps the wife (Honor Blackman) of a cavalry commander (Brian Keith) in order to obtain a Gatling gun from a scumbag gunrunner (Albert Salmi). Ben Johnson plays a scout while Carol White appears as the wannabe fiancé of Baker.

The title refers to ‘something big’ that Joe Baker is supposed to do before retiring from outlawry with several of the characters citing the line; a quaint idea, but it’s not ...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

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