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Something Big

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.

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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

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Language
German
  • gatling gun

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • TheatricalPG19 Nov 1971
  • FranceFR

    • Theatrical4 Oct 1972
  • GermanyDE

    • Theatrical1629 Mar 1972

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Something Big was released on 19 November 1971.

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    Wuchak

    3/23/2018

    5/10

    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. Th…

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    CinemaSerf

    5/29/2023

    6/10

    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 the star; and we just know we are in for a bumpy ride with a couple of feisty performances from Honor Blackman as the ho…

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