marktayloruk And still do! Pity Cagney wouldn't do it but Marvin was good-and they should have pIcked a different Elizabeth who didn't need to be dubbed! Didn't really care for her turning respectable-and wouldn't Ben have found out Pardner's name? Wonder what happened next? I can see Ben turning up a year or two later for a reunion.

dglink Released toward the end of the era of big-budget musicals, "Paint Your Wagon," with a tuneful score by Lerner and Lowe, was maligned by critics for its bloated production, non-singing leads, and clunky direction. However, more than four decades later, the film remains a guilty pleasure for many and offers enough entertainment to please most. However, while director Joshua Logan may have shown genius directing stage musicals, his work on film falls flat. His screen musical adaptations, "Camelot," "South Pacific," and this film were all directed with a heavy hand that failed to capture the stage magic in their transition to the screen. Vastly revised by Alan Jay Lerner and Paddy Chayefsky from the original Broadway production, "Paint Your Wagon" is set during the California Gold Rush, where two unlikely men partner up and share everything, eventually even a wife. Although most of the bawdy aspects are suggested rather than shown, the menage-a-trois at the core of the film may have been too adult for family audiences in the late 1960's, and extolling the virtues of prostitution for a virtually all male town is also quite adult.Although cast largely with non-singers in the tradition of such other screen adaptations as "My Fair Lady" and "Camelot," there is little damage to the songs, because many are choral numbers, and the show's best song, "They Call the Wind Maria," is sung by an accomplished Broadway musical star, Harve Presnell. Clint Eastwood has modest singing skills; his voice is not bad, his rendition of "I Talk to the Trees" is acceptable, and, to be fair, he did record an album of western songs at one point. Jean Seberg's voice was dubbed, but she is colorless in the lead female role; a Shirley Jones would have been stronger both vocally and dramatically. For a woman supposedly in love with two men, Seberg generates little heat or chemistry with her co-stars. Lee Marvin is appropriately colorful, although his voice is gravelly and rough, and he seems to be reprising his "Cat Ballou" performance. While the choreography has also been criticized, the sight of a group of scruffy miners breaking into perfectly synchronized dance steps like "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers," would look ludicrous.Admittedly "Paint Your Wagon" is over long and over produced; a silly prolonged climax that consists of endless special effects may have been intended for laughs, but it falls flat. However, despite much to justifiably criticize, the music is captivating, most of the performances are fun to watch, and the movie is often just plain fun.

dworldeater To be quite frank, I hate musicals in general, so the chances of me liking a movie of this type is slim to none. However it does have legends Lee Marvin and Clint Eastwood teaming up for this one time engagement that caught my interest. I can understand why these guys chose this project as a departure from the tough guy roles they are normally cast in. However, if you are a fan of either star's work, Paint Your Wagon is a painful 3 hour experience that I wish on no one. Paint Your Wagon is an inane big budget flop that is pretentious, dated and criminally stupid. I'm sure the studios wished to court a more arty audience with this crap, but failed to generate success at the box office or receive acclaim from critics. Essentially Paint Your Wagon is lowbrow entertainment for a highbrow crowd. Any way you slice it, this film is crud. This western/comedy/musical was intended to be a huge hit by the studios. Paint Your Wagon is epic in scope with a huge cast, enormous great looking sets and great cinematography. On the technical end of things Paint Your Wagon is pretty solid. The epic treatment does not make up for the other film's faults, or why they even considered making this at all. The storyline is about as dumb as it gets and a cast of hundreds of extras and the frequent need to break into song can not and does not compensate for a story this bad. Clint, Lee and French actress Jean Seberg do their best to carry this garbage and make it somewhat watchable. Paint Your Wagon is an epic failure, disappointment and waste of time. While these guys are best known for their work in the action genre Lee Marvin and Clint Eastwood are talented actors and artists. In fact some of Clint's left turns are some of his most interesting films. Either way, it worked out okay for those involved. Jean Seberg got a free trip to America, Lee Marvin got drunk and Clint Eastwood got to bang Jean Seberg. Plus they all got paid, however this is a bad film and watching this film is a complete waste of time.

Uriah43 When gold is discovered in California it creates a mad rush among certain people who want to get their hands on some. By chance, one particular person named "Ben Rumson" (Lee Marvin) has already arrived and as luck would have it happens to notice a wagon rolling out of control down a steep mountain. When he gets there he discovers that one of the men inside the wagon is dead and the other is badly hurt. Not long afterward some members of the wagon train arrive and they begin the task of burying the dead man. However, upon digging the grave they just happen to strike gold and immediately Ben claims the spot for himself and the badly injured man who he announces as his new "Pardner" (Clint Eastwood). Eventually, Pardner recuperates and they both set about digging for gold in the mining community that has attracted over a hundred men but is totally lacking any women. Then one day a Mormon man with two wives arrives at the mining camp which attracts the attention of all of the miners except Ben who is dead drunk. At the same time the two women get into a spat and the husband decides to auction off the wife named "Elizabeth" (Jean Seberg). As the auction commences Ben awakens from his drunken stupor and makes the highest bid before passing out once again. One thing leads to another and soon both Ben and Pardner wind up marrying Elizabeth. Anywary, rather than reveal any more of this movie and risk spoiling it for those who haven't seen it I will just say that this movie is probably best described as a Western-Musical-Comedy. As such it has some good humor here and there and a couple of good songs most notably "Mariah" and "I Was Born Under a Wandering Star". Unfortunately, it also has some pretty bad songs as well. Along with that this movie turned out to be quite long and because of that there were some parts here and there which seemed to drag on for too long. In any case, it turned out to be fairly enjoyable and I have rated the movie accordingly. Slightly above average.