Paint Your Wagon

Movie

1969

2h 44m

PG-13

English

Comedy, Western, Music

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6.7

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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,...

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Paint Your Wagon

PG-13

Movie

1969

2h 44m

English

Comedy, Western, Music

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Cast

Ben Rumson

"Pardner"

Elizabeth Woodling

"Mad Jack" Duncan

"Rotten Luck Willie"

Horton Fenty

Parson

Joe Mooney

Mrs. Fenty

Steve Bull

Haywood Holbrook

Horace Tabor

Foster

Ezra Atwell

Mr. Fenty

Schermerhorn

Jacob Woodling

Sarah Woodling

Indian

Higgins

Wong

Frock-Coated Man

Hennessey

Clendennon

Miner (uncredited)

Directed By: Joshua Logan

Written By: Alan Jay Lerner (Screenplay)

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r96sk says...

3 years ago

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.

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The_Argentinian says...

8 months ago

It starts slow and I wasn't feeling it (Clint Eastwood singing? No.) but once the Mormons appear and the pace picks up. It gets really funny. I didn't feel the length. Lee Marvin's fully committed performance makes the movie.

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Onofre Bouvilla says...

3 years ago

Level "Marvellous" • 9 :heart: • Very Recommended.

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r96sk

3 years ago

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.

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PoodleDaddy

6 years ago

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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CinemaSerf

one year ago

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 cur More

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