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

Cast

Dean Martin

as Joe Baker

Brian Keith

as Col. Morgan

Carol White

as Dover McBride

Honor Blackman

as Mary Anna Morgan

Ben Johnson

as Jesse Bookbinder

Albert Salmi

as Jonny Cobb

Don Knight

as Tommy McBride

Joyce Van Patten

as Polly Standall

Denver Pyle

as Junior Frisbee

Merlin Olsen

as Sgt. Fitzsimmons

Reviews

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 scum...

CinemaSerf

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 ...

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