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Paint Your Wagon
1969 164 min United States of America PG-13 12+
★6.5
Comedy, Western, Music
Director: Joshua Logan
🎭 Based on
«Paint Your Wagon»
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Description
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.
Budget:
$20M
US Gross:
$14.5M
Worldwide:
$31.68M
Starring
Lee Marvin
Actor
Clint Eastwood
Actor
Jean Seberg
Actor
Awards
Academy Awards 1970
— Best Score for a Musical Film
Golden Globe 1970
— Best Picture (Comedy or Musical)
Golden Globe 1970
— Best Actor (Comedy or Musical)
Key opinion
Paint Your Wagon is a sprawling, tonally inconsistent musical that functions more as a curiosity than a cohesive genre film. While the lead performances by Lee Marvin and Clint Eastwood are widely praised for their charm and unexpected vocal work, the film is hampered by a meandering script and an excessive runtime.
| Acting | Lee Marvin and Clint Eastwood deliver charismatic, surprisingly capable vocal performances that serve as a primary draw for fans. | |
| Pacing | The film suffers from a bloated and uneven narrative structure that would have benefited from significant cutting. | |
| Screenplay | The central premise of a polygamous arrangement between the two leads and one woman is viewed by some as an interesting dynamic, while others dismiss it as an absurd and archaic plot device. | |
| Adaptation | The decision to blend a traditional Western setting with musical theater elements fails to satisfy fans of either genre. |