The pic just collapses because there's nothing going on that matters except to watch Marvin's hammy performance.
Paint Your Wagon (1969)
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Reviews Counted:13
Fresh:3
Rotten:10
Average Rating:4.7/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 44 mins
Genre: Musical & Performing Arts
US Box Office: $0
Synopsis: Set in No Name City, California during the gold rush, this musical comedy concerns prospectors Ben and Pardner and their unusual nuclear family. The business partners strike a deal to share Ben's... Set in No Name City, California during the gold rush, this musical comedy concerns prospectors Ben and Pardner and their unusual nuclear family. The business partners strike a deal to share Ben's wife Elizabeth, whom Ben purchased from a Mormon. But the free-thinking Ben is worried about rivalry over Elizabeth from the town's all-male population, hungry for female company. So he arranges to kidnap a stagecoach full of working girls on their way to a nearby city, and sets up a brothel in No Name. That puts the place on the map and business booms, but competition for gold also grows. Later, needing cash to survive the winter, Ben and an accomplice, Mad Jack Duncan, tunnel under the town's buildings to catch loose golddust falling from the floorboards. But No Name collapses under the strain, and everyone moves on, except for Pardner and Elizabeth. [More]
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Lee Marvin, Jean Seberg, Ray Walston
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Lee Marvin, Jean Seberg, Ray Walston, Harve Presnell, Tom Ligon, Alan Dexter, William O'Connell, Benny Baker, Alan Baxter, Paula Trueman, Robert Easton
Director: Joshua Logan, Tom Shaw
Director: Joshua Logan
Producer: Alan J. Lerner
Director: Tom Shaw
Composer: Frederick Loewe, Nelson Riddle
Reviews for Paint Your Wagon
This last gasp MGM musical still features enough curiousity to make it worthwhile.
Not as bad as some would make you believe. But I'm still not looking forward to that Clint Eastwood Sings Sinatra album.
...a surplus of good, hummable tunes, breezy dialogue and characterizations, beautiful location shots, and excellent DVD transfer.
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