Something Big (1971)
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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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
Rating:PG
Genre:Western, Comedy
Written By:James Lee Barrett
In Theaters:11/19/1971
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Runtime:108 minutes
Studio:Stanmore Productions, Cinema Center Films, Penbar Productions
Cast
Andrew V. McLaglen
Director
Dean Martin
Joe Baker
Brian Keith
Col. Morgan
Carol White
Dover McBride
Honor Blackman
Mary Anna Morgan
Ben Johnson
Jesse Bookbinder
Albert Salmi
Jonny Cobb
Don Knight
Tommy McBride
Joyce Van Patten
Polly Standall
Denver Pyle
Junior Frisbee
Merlin Olsen
Sgt. Fitzsimmons
Robert Donner
Angel Moon
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