Review of Paint Your Wagon (1969) by Mel J — 23 Aug 2007
Cheesy, bawdy 1969 musical centering around No Name City, a Cali frontier Gold Rush town and the partners Ben Rumson (hilariously played by Lee Marvin) and "Pardner" (Clint Eastwood). When a mormon polygamist comes thru town, he is forced to give up one of his wives, who is then auctioned off to the drunken Ben Rumson.
Things get tricky when Pardner falls in love with Elizabeth (Jean Seberg) too, and when they let a pioneer family stay at their homestead. Ben and Pardner team up with Mad Jack (Ray Walston-Mr. Hand from Fast Times) on an easy way to get gold, with disasterous results! Pretty long movie but it has an intermission.
Some of it was filmed in Oregon. Cute romp, worth watching just to see young Clint and Lee sing!
This review of Paint Your Wagon (1969) was written by Mel J on 23 Aug 2007.
Paint Your Wagon has generally received positive reviews.
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