Paint Your Wagon (1969) 6.6
Two unlikely prospector partners share the same wife in a California gold rush mining town. Director:Joshua Logan |
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Paint Your Wagon (1969) 6.6
Two unlikely prospector partners share the same wife in a California gold rush mining town. Director:Joshua Logan |
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Lee Marvin | ... | ||
Clint Eastwood | ... | ||
Jean Seberg | ... | ||
Harve Presnell | ... | ||
Ray Walston | ... | ||
Tom Ligon | ... | ||
Alan Dexter | ... | ||
William O'Connell | ... | ||
Benny Baker | ... |
Haywood Holbrook
(as Ben Baker)
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Alan Baxter | ... | ||
Paula Trueman | ... | ||
Robert Easton | ... |
Atwell
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Geoffrey Norman | ... |
Foster
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H.B. Haggerty | ... | ||
Terry Jenkins | ... |
Joe Mooney
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A Michigan farmer and a prospector form a partnership in the California gold country. Their adventures include buying and sharing a wife, hijacking a stage, kidnaping six prostitutes, and turning their mining camp into a boomtown. Along the way there is plenty of drinking, gambling, and singing. They even find time to do some creative gold mining. Written by David J. Kiseleski <davidk269@aol.com>
Joshua Logan's screen version of "Paint your wagon" works a treat, perhaps because the original stage version is so little known and apparently has been given something of a make-over by screen writer Paddy Chayefsky. The fact that the leads (Lee Marvin, Clint Eastwood and Jean Seberg) can't sing matters not a jot; they perform with charisma, (even Seberg is less wan than usual) and bring a touch of realism to the proceedings, their songs seeming to evolve naturally from the action. Other singing duties are performed by the splendid Harve Presnell and a rousing, mostly male, chorus for this is a musical western of a more robust kind than "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers". It's plot, which concerns mining for gold, polygamy and the building of a town, fairly races along. Logan handles the whole thing with great aplomb and brings to it some nice, naturalistic touches sadly lacking from his earlier musicals, "South Pacific" and "Camelot". Most critics didn't warm to it, though and it remains largely under-valued.