STEFANIE POWERS
( Seated )
Stefanie Powers ( as Becky McLintock ) was in the receiving end of a spanking from Patrick Wayne ( Devlin Warren ) . It was probably the first coal shovel spanking in cinematic history .The scene comes before the more famous chase / spanking scene between John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara .
Before the spanking scene , Becky asks her Father to shoot Devlin Warren , we see a close up of Devlin as he raises his hands , backs away and Wayne senior fires . ( It was a blank ! ) We can see that his right hand is empty in this shot , but in the next shot he's holding his hat in his right hand as he falls .
The metallic sound of the coal shovel striking is almost musical .
HART TO HART
Stefanie Powers also starred in the TV Series " Hart to Hart " , where it would have been nice to have seen her spanked .
Powers loved McLintock
Actress Stefanie Powers says her happiest working experience on a movie came in 1963 when she played John Wayne's daughter in the comic western McLintock.
She also says she will never forget the close chemistry between Wayne and his favorite leading lady, Maureen O'Hara, and reveals that it influenced the rapport she later established with Robert Wagner for their hit television series, Hart To Hart.
( Stefanie Powers received the lesser known
spanking in McLintock , Hart to Hart is available
from Amazon
. )
Powers makes her comments in a fascinating interview contained in the new special DVD edition of McLintock just released by Paramount Home Entertainment. O'Hara, now 85, also discusses her long friendship with Wayne and her role in this film as cattle Baron George Washington McLintock's estranged and domineering wife.
( We think that this is the version referred to above , available
from Amazon
. )
