Paint Your Wagon

1969 164 min ★ 6.3 Comedy, Western, Music

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, kidnapping six prostitutes, and turning their mining camp into a boom town. Along the way there is plenty of drinking, gambling, and singing. They even find time to do some creative gold mining.

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Cast

Lee Marvin

Ben Rumson

Clint Eastwood

"Pardner"

Jean Seberg

Elizabeth Woodling

Ray Walston

"Mad Jack" Duncan

Harve Presnell

"Rotten Luck Willie"

Tom Ligon

Horton Fenty

Alan Dexter

Parson

Terry Jenkins

Joe Mooney

Paula Trueman

Mrs. Fenty

H.B. Haggerty

Steve Bull

Details

Director

Joshua Logan

Screenplay

Alan Jay Lerner

Tagline

"Stake Your Claim To The Musical Goldmine of '69!"

Status

Released

Original Language

EN

Budget

$20,000,000

Revenue

$31,678,778

Production

Paramount Pictures, Alan Jay Lerner Productions, Malpaso Productions

Reviews

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PoodleDaddy

July 15, 2018

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).

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r96sk

January 13, 2022

★ 5/10

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...

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CinemaSerf

June 3, 2023

★ 6/10

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 auctio...