Something Big

"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."

Dec 31 1971 PG-13 1h 48m
Comedy, Western

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

Plot

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.

Written by

James Lee Barrett

Directed by

Andrew V. McLaglen

Cast

Dean Martin, Brian Keith, Carol White

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Production Countries

United States of America

Production Companies

Penbar Productions, Cinema Center Films, Stanmore Productions

Languages

English, Deutsch

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