Something Big is a 1971 American motion picture produced by Andrew V. McLaglen (who also directed it) and James Lee Barrett (who also wrote the screenplay). It stars Dean Martin and Brian Keith.
The movie is a western comedy, set in the frontier of the southern New Mexico Territory. Martin plays Joe Baker, an aging restless bandit determined to do "something big" before his fiancé Dover McBride, played by Carol White, arrives from the East. Don K...
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Something Big is a 1971 American motion picture produced by Andrew V. McLaglen (who also directed it) and James Lee Barrett (who also wrote the screenplay). It stars Dean Martin and Brian Keith.
The movie is a western comedy, set in the frontier of the southern New Mexico Territory. Martin plays Joe Baker, an aging restless bandit determined to do "something big" before his fiancé Dover McBride, played by Carol White, arrives from the East. Don Knight plays Tommy McBride, Dover's brother and partner in Baker's banditry. To achieve his "something big," Baker must deal with the vulgar but lonely bandit Jonny Cobb (Albert Salmi) and his ruthless sidekick Angel Moon (Robert Donner).
Opposing Baker and his plan is the cantankerous Colonel Morgan, played by Keith, who is on the cusp of retirement from the Army command in the territory. In a situation parallel to Baker's, Morgan's wife Mary Ann (Honor Blackman) is arriving from the East to accompany him home on his retirement. Former...
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