Something Big

  • Western
  • Comedy
11/19/1971
108
PG

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.

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

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  • Wuchak

    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 its not funny and gets old after a while. The opening act is a dud with nothing stimulating happening to draw the viewer into the story. There are several curious props...

    March 23, 2018
  • Geronimo1967

    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 curiously not sung by the star; and we just know we are in for a bumpy ride with a couple of feisty performances from Honor Blackman as the hostage, and Carol White as the Scottish affianced of "Baker" whom she sets of to marry she four years after they last met! There's plenty of action, Martin oozes charisma and Keith is pretty effective as the cynical old army man soon to retire. Remember it's meant to be a comedy and you'll do fine with this - it's a charming and ...

    May 29, 2023

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