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Paint Your Wagon (1969) -- Two unlikely prospector partners share the same wife in a California gold rush mining town.
Paint Your Wagon (1969) -- Two unlikely prospector partners share the same wife in a California gold rush mining town.

Overview

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Director:
Joshua Logan
Writers:
Paddy Chayefsky (adaptation)
Alan Jay Lerner (musical play "Paint Your Wagon")
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Release Date:
15 October 1969 (USA) more
Tagline:
Stake Your Claim To The Musical Goldmine of '69! more
Plot:
Two unlikely prospector partners share the same wife in a California gold rush mining town. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for Oscar. Another 1 win & 2 nominations more
NewsDesk:
(4 articles)
Is Clint Eastwood the Longest-Running Movie Star Ever?
 (From Get The Big Picture. 13 January 2009, 5:19 PM, PST)

In the meadow, we can pan a snowman
 (From Roger Ebert's Blog. 24 December 2008, 9:04 AM, PST)

User Comments:
A Nicely Naturalistic Musical more

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Additional Details

MPAA:
Rated PG-13 for thematic material.
Runtime:
158 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
2.20 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
4-Track Stereo (35 mm prints) | 70 mm 6-Track (70 mm prints)
Certification:
Canada:A (Nova Scotia) | Canada:G (Quebec) | Canada:PG (Manitoba/Ontario) | UK:A (original rating) | USA:TV-14 | Australia:PG | Finland:K-8 | Norway:16 | Spain:13 | Sweden:11 | UK:PG | USA:M (original rating) | USA:PG-13 (re-rated: 2001) | West Germany:16 | Singapore:PG
Filming Locations:
Baker, Oregon, USA more

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Trivia:
Lee Marvin was set to star in The Wild Bunch (1969), a project that he helped put together with stuntman Roy N. Sickner, when Paramount offered him $1 million plus a percentage to star in this picture. more
Goofs:
Revealing mistakes: When the town is falling apart in the end, we see the wires used hold up a falling bathtub. more
Quotes:
Chorus: [the hijacked stage coach carrying six prostitutes is approaching No Name City. The completely male population is scrubbing up in the creek and singing] There's a coach comin' in and you're smellin' like a steer. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in "The A-Team: Uncle Buckle-Up (#4.12)" (1985) more
Soundtrack:
The First Thing You Know more

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18 out of 22 people found the following comment useful:-
A Nicely Naturalistic Musical, 8 June 2004
Author: Martin Bradley (MOscarbradley@aol.com) from Derry, Ireland

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.

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