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| Status: | Released (1971-11-19) |
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| Screen: | James Lee Barrett |
| Productions: | Stanmore Productions, Cinema Center Films, Penbar Productions |
| Production Countries: | United States of America |
| Spoken Languages: | Deutsch, English |
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Posters
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Recommendations
Casts
- 4299: Dean Martin - Joe Baker
- 32791: Brian Keith - Col. Morgan
- 88614: Carol White - Dover McBride
- 9907: Honor Blackman - Mary Anna Morgan
- 8258: Ben Johnson - Jesse Bookbinder
- 12692: Albert Salmi - Jonny Cobb
- 152673: Don Knight - Tommy McBride
Crews
- 51875: Andrew V. McLaglen - Director - Directing
- 8505: Robert L. Simpson - Editor - Editing
- 1549526: Don Christie - Still Photographer - Camera
- 24792: James Lee Barrett - Producer - Production
- 24792: James Lee Barrett - Writer - Writing
- 78390: Hoyt Bowers - Casting - Production
- 14094: Harry Stradling Jr. - Director of Photography - Camera
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Reviews
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Review text:
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 ....
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This is quite a fun outing for Dean Martin as ("Baker") - the leader of a gang of robbers who agrees to swap the wife of local army colonel "Morgan" (Brian Keith) for a Gatling gun. Messrs. Bacharach & David wrote the rather jaunty ditty that kicks the whole thing off - though curiou ....
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