History Film / McLintock

* ExcitedShowTitle

* ShesGotLegs: Katherine, who ends up running around in her chemise, corset, and pantelettes, is the only woman in the film to show off her legs.

* DeterminedHomesteadersWife: Katie started out as this, then she became a stuffy RichBitch. G.W. decides to give Becky a small homestead instead of his entire estate as an inheritance because he believes the homesteading experience will help her and her future husband build character.

* AbsoluteCleavage: [[Creator/MaureenOHara Katherine]] in a chase scene while in her [[OfCorsetsSexy undergarments]]; the saloon girls aren't so bad themselves.

* RichesToRags: The Warrens' backstory. When Dev Warren's father died, he left his wife Louise penniless and his son had to drop out of Perdue.

** Even when they were still fighting eachother, they still held eachother in fairly high regard. Katie relates a story about aftermath of a fight that left GW badly wounded. Rather than finish him off or leave him for dead, Puma went to considerable trouble to bring GW home to recover.

* DaddysGirl: Becky.

* PetTheDog: One of the early indications that Kate's not such a bad sort after all is that she shares G.W.'s respect for the Comanche as human beings, as opposed to "savages".

---> ''You wouldn't believe this, but 20 years ago she was quite the handsome maid.''

--> '''[=McLintok=]:''' Half the people in the ''world'' are women. Why does it have to be ''you'' that stirs me? ''(Passionate kiss)''

* NotSoDifferent: [=McLintock=] invokes this trope at one point when Devlin refers to himself as just the "hired help"

Colorado cattle baron George Washington [=McLintock=] (Wayne) is living the single life on his ranch. He is estranged from his snobbish wife Katherine (O'Hara), who left him two years before. [=McLintock=] hires young Devlin Warren (Patrick Wayne) as a hand and his beautiful mother Louise (Yvonne [=DeCarlo=]) as his cook and welcomes their family into his home. He also butts heads with Matt Douglas (Gordon Jones), a sleazy bureaucrat who is looking to discredit [=McLintock=] and remove the local Indians. Sparks begin to fly as an unexpected turn of events results in brawls, gunfire, an Indian attack... and the return of Mrs. [=McLintock=], who wants a divorce from G.W. and custody over their daughter Becky (Stefanie Powers), who's coming home from college in the East.

* YourCheatingHeart: Downplayed. Katie first left, again, after she saw lipstick on G.W.'s collar. When she first arrives back in town, G.W. mentions that he's seen a picture of her in the newspaper dancing with the governor.

* In ''The Don's Analyst'' the protagonist falls in love with the estranged wife of one of the Don's sons, who despite no longer loving her or living together and constantly cheating on her, refuses to grant her a divorce because of his macho code. [[spoiler: By the end of the movie, the protagonist has won the family around enough with the Power of Therapy that the son finally agrees to the divorce so she will be free to marry the shrink.]]

-> ''"Some folks are gonna say I'm doin' all this so I can sit up in the hereafter and look down on a park named after me, or that I was disappointed in you, didn't want you to get all that money. But the real reason, Becky, is because I love you, and I want you and some young man to have what I had, because all the gold in the United States Treasury and all the harp music in heaven can't equal what happens between a man and a woman with all that growin' together. I can't explain it any better than that.''"

* AntiNepoism: [=McLintock=] tells Becky that he intends to will most of his estate to be made into a park, leaving a small spread for her. Not much, but it's more than her parents started out with.