Lee Marvin

Clint Eastwood

Jean Seberg

Ray Walston

Harve Presnell

Tom Ligon

Alan Dexter

Terry Jenkins

Paula Trueman

H.B. Haggerty

Benny Baker

William O'Connell

Geoffrey Norman

Robert Easton

Alan Baxter

Karl Bruck

John Mitchum

Sue Casey

Eddie Little Sky

Harvey Parry

H.W. Gim

William Mims

Roy Jenson

Patrick Hawley

Tony Colti

Roger Herren

Joshua Logan

Alan Jay Lerner

Paddy Chayefsky

William A. Fraker

Robert C. Jones

John Truscott

Alfred Schultz

Ruth Santarone

Dominic Santarone

Willard Jones

Frederick Loewe

Dar Robinson

Bob Herron

Robert Eaton

Carl Braunger

James L. Berkey

Anne Laune

Bill Jobe

Frank McCoy

Vivienne Walker

Maurice Ayers

Larry Hampton

David M. Walsh

Bobby Byrne

William Randall Jr.

Fred Hynes

Joe Smith

Tom May

Carl Beringer

Fred Lemoine

Jack Roe

Marshall J. Wolins

Joseph Curtis

Gene Levy

David Stone Martin

Jonas Halperin

Tom Shaw

Loyal Griggs

Nelson Tyler

Jack Baker

Al Murphy

Joseph J. Lilley

Nelson Riddle

Roger Wagner

Cheryl Crawford

André Previn

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Western

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Paint Your Wagon

Paramount Pictures

Alan Jay Lerner Productions

Malpaso Productions

United States of America

Deutsch

English

mining

polyamory

prospector

Paint Your Wagon is a classic musical set in the mountains of California.  A Great cast and pure entertainment.  Despite the generally silly plot, the movie provides fun spirited viewing.   Besides who knew that Clint Eastwood could sing (well sort of).

2hrs 40mins... 160 whole minutes... Why?

What an absolute bore, and a waste, <em>'Paint Your Wagon'</em> turns into. Why did they make this so long? The plot needn't be that extended, the music doesn't carry it either. It has a few decent parts, but they are surrounded by excess fat.

Lee Marvin, Clint Eastwood and Jean Seberg stopped me from hating this, I will say, because that trio are all solid despite the aforementioned. It's amusing, at first anyway, to see Marvin and Eastwood sing, as they aren't the types you'd expect to do so. I'm not saying they can sing per se, but it's comically positive - which is the film's intentional, after all.

I wish it was shorter, you could easily take an hour off this and not lose anything. It's a right drag, unfortunately.

CinemaSerf

This is a fine adaptation of Lerner & Loewe's tale of the escapades of two prospectors on the hunt for gold, whisky and a wife... Clint Eastwood, the slightly more sophisticated tea-totaller, is actually quite a revelation as "Pardner"; yep - he can actually hold a tune alongside the wonderfully curmudgeonly Lee Marvin "Ben Rumson". When a Mormon gent arrives in "No Name City" he decides to auction one of his wives; Marvin makes a purchase and soon there is an uniquely amicable little ménage à trois going on with "their" wife Jean Seberg - the no-nonsense "Elizabeth". The story does take quite a while to get going, but the three principals with the help of some wonderful orchestrations (Nelson Riddle at the helm) of "Wandrin' Star"; "They Call the Wind Maria" & "I Talk to the Trees" all deliver really rather well (if, perhaps not quite so tunefully by Marvin). The actors are having great fun amongst the rain, mud and poverty - and that fun can at times be quite contagious; there are some really enjoyable ensemble scenes/numbers too. The story is, however, strung out far too thinly over what seemed like an age and though there are some quite pithy one liners, the comedy is equally sparsely distributed throughout this all but three hour film. The last ten minutes are quite an achievement for the scenery/props folks as we almost end up where we started... It's entertaining fun....

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Paint Your Wagon( 1969)

Stake Your Claim To The Musical Goldmine of '69!

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Written by PoodleDaddy on Sun Jul 15 2018

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