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Something Big (1971) [PG]

Release Date:
November 19, 1971

Original Title:
Something Big

Genres:
Comedy | Western

Production Companies:
Cinema Center Films
Penbar Productions
Stanmore Productions

Production Countries:
United States of America

Ratings / Certifications:
DE: 16  US: PG 

Runtime: 108

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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Art Direction:
Alfred Sweeney

Assistant Director:
Howard W. Koch

Associate Producer:
Harry Bernsen

Camera Operator:
Jack Whitman

Casting:
Hoyt Bowers

Costume Design:
Richard Bruno
Ray Summers

Director:
Andrew V. McLaglen

Director of Photography:
Harry Stradling Jr.

Editor:
Robert L. Simpson

Hairstylist:
Esperanza Gómez

Makeup Artist:
Hank Edds
Don Schoenfeld

Original Music Composer:
Marvin Hamlisch

Producer:
Andrew V. McLaglen
James Lee Barrett

Property Master:
Dudley Holmes

Script Supervisor:
Bob Forrest

Second Assistant Director:
Jerry Ziesmer

Sound:
Jesús González Gancy

Special Effects:
Logan Frazee

Still Photographer:
Don Christie

Stunt Coordinator:
Hal Needham

Supervising Music Editor:
Gene Feldman

Supervising Sound Editor:
Jack A. Finlay

Unit Production Manager:
Robert M. Beche

Writer:
James Lee Barrett

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