ComedyWesternMusic

Paint Your Wagon

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

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.

Release Date : 1969-10-15

Language :GermanEnglish

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : Paramount PicturesAlan Jay Lerner ProductionsMalpaso Productions

Production Country : United States of America

Alternative Titles :

Cast

Character Name : Ben Rumson

Original Name : Lee Marvin

Gender : Male

Character Name : "Pardner"

Original Name : Clint Eastwood

Gender : Male

Character Name : Elizabeth Woodling

Original Name : Jean Seberg

Gender : Female

Character Name : "Mad Jack" Duncan

Original Name : Ray Walston

Gender : Male

Character Name : "Rotten Luck Willie"

Original Name : Harve Presnell

Gender : Male

Character Name : Horton Fenty

Original Name : Tom Ligon

Gender : Male

Character Name : Parson

Original Name : Alan Dexter

Gender : Male

Character Name : Joe Mooney

Original Name : Terry Jenkins

Gender : Male

Character Name : Mrs. Fenty

Original Name : Paula Trueman

Gender : Female

Character Name : Steve Bull

Original Name : H.B. Haggerty

Gender : Male

Character Name : Haywood Holbrook

Original Name : Benny Baker

Gender : Male

Character Name : Horace Tabor

Original Name : William O'Connell

Gender : Male

Character Name : Foster

Original Name : Geoffrey Norman

Gender : Male

Character Name : Ezra Atwell

Original Name : Robert Easton

Gender : Male

Character Name : Mr. Fenty

Original Name : Alan Baxter

Gender : Male

Character Name : Schermerhorn

Original Name : Karl Bruck

Gender : Male

Character Name : Jacob Woodling

Original Name : John Mitchum

Gender : Male

Character Name : Sarah Woodling

Original Name : Sue Casey

Gender : Female

Character Name : Indian

Original Name : Eddie Little Sky

Gender : Male

Character Name : Higgins

Original Name : Harvey Parry

Gender : Male

Character Name : Wong

Original Name : H.W. Gim

Gender : Male

Character Name : Frock-Coated Man

Original Name : William Mims

Gender : Male

Character Name : Hennessey

Original Name : Roy Jenson

Gender : Male

Character Name : Clendennon

Original Name : Patrick Hawley

Gender : Male

Character Name : Miner (uncredited)

Original Name : Tony Colti

Gender : Male

Character Name : Miner (uncredited)

Original Name : Roger Herren

Gender : Male

Reviews

PoodleDaddy

@PoodleDaddy

2021-06-23

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).

r96sk

@r96sk

2022-01-13

2hrs 40mins... 160 whole minutes... Why? What an absolute bore, and a waste, 'Paint Your Wagon' 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

@Geronimo1967

2023-06-03

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....