Paint Your Wagon

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Norman D @ndudzik28 Oct 3, 2026 Great music. OK acting. Silly story with some laughs. Too long at 2:40. See more Joseph F @RT86684479 Jun 30, 2026 I liked it, I liked it a lot. Great music, great acting, great story and funny as hell. What more do you want. See more Barry F @RT02468993 Jun 4, 2026 I remember going blindly to the theater decades ago to see this. One of the movies I most remember seeing because I left completely exhilarated ever. I am astonished to see all the pans on the movie and Lee Marvin and Clint Eastwood singing.....yeah, they were probably off key but PERFECT for the tenor of the movie. Until now, I always thought that was some of the best of the movie. I have to listened to other versions like the stage production to see how they were "supposed" to sound.... the movie delivers an excitement and GRIT that is more realistic than the staged versions which are "nice". Clint and Lee capture that perfectly! Note, I am a big Opera and Musical lover so I take my comments in that light. The intro visuals are excellent and followed beautifully on the album covers in watercolors. There is one scene and song when the miners are waiting out endless rains and living in the mountains of California that scene and song was SO true to life. See more Alec B @Alec97 May 19, 2026 You might expect one of the leads to be miscast in a big budget musical like this . . . but all three of them!? Eastwood slightly outsings Marvin (just barely) and Seberg might be dubbed but she has no idea how to act in a musical. Joshua Logan appears to have opted for "realism" here which explains the sub par signing, although most of the character actors in the supporting cast are totally out of control, no doubt trying to make up for the boring lead performances. The one exception is Harve Presnell who totally knocks "They Call the Wind Maria" out of the park. A singular great moment in a weird mess of a musical. See more Matthew D @OceanSage Jan 9, 2026 Clint Eastwood and Lee Marvin singing is worth the price of admission in this outrageously raunchy musical. Sayonara director Joshua Logan’s Western musical-comedy Paint Your Wagon (1969) is one of the silliest films I’ve ever seen. Clint Eastwood and Lee Marvin looked like they were having a blast singing and gold mining, while flirting with Jean Seberg. Lee Marvin is a riot as the drunkard gold miner Ben Rumson. He’s vigorous, funny, gruff, tough, crazy, jealous, kind-hearted, loyal, and amusing. His gravel voiced singing is entertaining. Clint Eastwood is very handsome, cool, tough, nice, loyal, and thoughtful as the gold miner Sylvester Newel, who is just called Pardner by Marvin. Eastwood’s clean singing voice is shockingly pleasant and smooth for the best singing in the film. I am genuinely stunned that Eastwood has the most memorable songs here. Jean Seberg is pretty and likable as Elizabeth, who is in love with both Marvin and Eastwood’s miners. See more Nick Z @RT45371203 Oct 13, 2025 What was it about the mid-1960's, that every major musical cast almost always featured stars who actually couldn't sing a note or dance a step? Lee Marvin and Clint Eastwood are among the most atrociously miscast spectacles in this overwrought and bloated big-screen resurrection of Lerner and Loewe's lithe stagecraft. Perhaps if Mr. Eastwood is talking to the trees, its' only because they are the only audience quite unable to escape his flat tones. Lee Marvin plays a vigorous town drunk. But every time he croaks a song, we are painfully reminded that his acting virtues lay elsewhere. Costly, and a total flop, it's easy to see why. Paint Your Wagon is a travesty. It's as though the director, Joshua Logan, once a darling of the genre, decided to truly test how bad he could make a musical and still get away with it. Note to Mr. Logan. You found out. See more Read all reviews

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