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Something Big (1971)

5.2 | Nov 19, 1971 (US) | Western, Comedy | 01:48
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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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Cast

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Dean Martin
Joe Baker
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Brian Keith
Col. Morgan
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Carol White
Dover McBride
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Honor Blackman
Mary Anna Morgan
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Ben Johnson
Jesse Bookbinder
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Albert Salmi
Jonny Cobb
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Don Knight
Tommy McBride
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Joyce Van Patten
Polly Standall
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Denver Pyle
Junior Frisbee
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Merlin Olsen
Sgt. Fitzsimmons

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Reviews

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CinemaSerf
6 | May 29, 2023
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.
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Wuchak
5 | Mar 23, 2018
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.