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1 December 1971 (USA) moreTagline:
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. morePlot:
Joe Baker has a dream. He wants to do 'something big.' When he needs a Gatling gun to accomplish this... more | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
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This Could Be The Start Of Something Big moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| 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 | |
| Harry Carey Jr. | ... | Joe Pickins | |
| Judi Meredith | ... | Carrie Standall | |
| Edward Faulkner | ... | Capt. Tyler (as Ed Faulkner) | |
| Paul Fix | ... | Chief Yellow Sun |
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Colonel Morgan: What about your friend there? Do you want to bury him?Jonny Cobb: No. Maybe something will come out of the hills tonight and drag him off.
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I think the only thing that prevents Something Big from being a classic comic western is the awful let down at the end when Dean Martin decides to really do that Something Big he came west from Pennsylvania to do. The shootout at the end if anything is an anti-climax to the wild goings-on that preceded it throughout the movie.
Dean Martin after coming west to seek fame and fortune or at least enough to marry Carol White and support her is the leader of a group of outlaws with Carol's brother Don Knight as his number two. He wants to really make a score, do Something Big before returning to the east and another outlaw Albert Salmi has an interesting proposition for him.
Salmi's been without a woman for way too long now and his sidekick Robert Donner is not one to bring out the love that dare not speak its name. There just ain't too many folks of the female persuasion out in the territory. So if Martin will get him a woman, Salmi can lay his hands on a Gatling Gun to be used in whatever that Something Big scheme will be.
So what does Dino do? He holds up a few stagecoaches and then gets what he considers a proper woman, Honor Blackman famous as Pussy Galore of James Bond fame. The problem there is Dino didn't check her hand for a wedding ring, she's the wife of Brian Keith the commander of the local army post.
Ironically enough this silliness actually works as Brian Keith and chief scout Ben Johnson go searching the territory for Martin and Blackman. The various misadventures of the players goes for most of the film and when Martin does put his big scheme into operation in the last 20 minutes or so of the film, it is so anti-climatic, it's actually a let down.
Something Big is a very funny film for some reason not often shown. All the players do well, but my absolute favorites are Joyce Van Patten, and Judi Meredith the Standish sisters. A pair of frontier widows who really know how to be hospitable to a passing stranger, especially if the stranger is in pants.
Hopefully TCM will get this film and run it and soon.