I watched this the other night, and my jaw dropped when John Wayne (McLintock) used the example of trading value for value, when he hired a new cowhand. Wayne actually used the word "value" twice in one sentence, and finished his explanation by saying that this would be the mutual completion of a contract that benefited both of them...and not the case of boss vs. labor.

Before the showing of the movie, the Turner Classic Movie host told the story about how the movie almost didn't get the morals board stamp of approval for release, since the character of Territorial Governor Cuthbert Humphrey, a sleazy bureaucrat, was a thinly veiled reference to Hubert Humphrey (Democrat).

At the beginning of the movie, John Wayne gives a speech to the group of homesteaders that arrived, looking for their free 160 acres. Wayne tells them that nothing from the government really comes 'free of charge', and that they were destined to fail on "free" land that wasn't fit for farming. His point is that the government was incapable of common sense....

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