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, gambling, and singing. They even find time to do some creative gold mining.
Lee Marvin Clint Eastwood Jean Seberg Ray Walston Harve Presnell Tom Ligon Alan Dexter Terry Jenkins Paula Trueman H.B. Haggerty Benny Baker William O'Connell Geoffrey Norman Robert Easton Alan Baxter Karl Bruck John Mitchum Sue Casey Eddie Little Sky Harvey Parry H.W. Gim William Mims Roy Jenson Patrick Hawley Tony Colti Roger Herren
Fesd át a kocsid!, La leyenda de la ciudad sin nombre, ペンチャーワゴン, La Kermesse de l'Ouest, La ballata della città senza nome, Золото Калифорнии, Westwärts zieht der Wind, Os Aventureiros do Ouro, Fesd át a kocsidat, Når guldfeberen raser, Ο δρόμος της ευτυχίας, המכורים לזהב, Guldrushens glada dagar, La kermesse de l'Ouest, 漆好你的马车, Pomaluj Swój Wóz, 페인트 유어 웨건, ペンチャー・ワゴン, Kultarynnäkön iloiset päivät, Altın Avcıları
USAPG-13
UKPG
AustraliaPG
Italy
Spain12
IrelandPG
Germany16
Denmark15
Greece13
Sweden11
Australia
Denmark
Germany
Greece
Ireland
Italy
Spain
Sweden
UK
USA
Can't believe Roger Ebert led me to believe that this was "scandalous cinematic waste" for my entire life. He did the same with Heaven's Gate, Brown Bunny, even Freddy Got Fingered. He'll always be the one that got me into this filthy art form and while I still and always will enjoy his writings I'm sure as hell glad that I've outgrown his POV and learned to love movies in my own way. I mean, he's probably 100% correct on this one. Especially at the time when musicals were at the same exhausting point superhero movies are today. For this to have been released at a different point in time... it... would still probably have been received terribly as it…
“Grace, I give you the boy. Give me back the man.” - Ben Rumson
I know this movie isn’t very well-regarded and that it was a big flop at the time. But for some reason I really loved it as a kid. Recently I purchased the new 4K disc from Kino Lorber and I just rewatched the film after many, many years. And you know what? I still like the movie. I can see its faults. It is too long and not every song here is a banger. But I like the story, the setting, the cinematography the humor and especially the characters. This movie has a great cast. And some of the songs, like “I'm On My Way”, “They…
This hilarious all-star 3-hour polyamorous western musical deserves to be a classic and the only reason it isn't is because the critics were COWARDS
“Husbands? Did I hear husbands?”
Joshua Logan again commits to his vision of a family being two bisexual men and an ostensibly straight woman. Here it’s a western with Clint Eastwood (🙄) as the hunky man instead of Franco Nero so naturally I don’t love it as much as Camelot but it’s impossible not to enjoy this. Leave it to joshua to take such absurdly sexist material and turn it into a much braver version of lubitsch’s design for living
I, too, would build Jean Seberg a cabin in California if she asked me to. I, too, would agree to a polyamorous relationship with Jean and my best friend Clint Eastwood, who owes me a life debt because I saved him from the wreckage of a bloody wagon accident. I, too, would dig a complex system of tunnels beneath the weird mining town that I literally helped build, so that I could clandestinely gather gold dust through the floorboards of saloons. I, too, would wear a cartoonishly large Ambrose Burnside mustache so that people couldn’t recognize me in the terrible, 164-minute musical Paint Your Wagon.
Paint Your Wagon in some corners is considered a horrible movie...it even has a huge section in the book..."The Golden Turkey Awards". Despite that...this is one of my favorite musicals.....granted I am not a huge musical fan....and my singing hurts dog's ears....so I admit I have no musical taste....but I still like this movie.
Lee Marvin and Clint Eastwood (yep those great singers Lee and Clint) play partners during a gold rush....when Jean Seberg comes into their lives. They fight, they drink, they gamble, they fall in love with Seberg, they look for gold....and they of course sing and dance. Clint gets three solo songs....including one I think called "Singing to the Trees"....while Lee sings about half of dozen songs.....including…
Clint Eastwood A Retrospective - Week 7
I quote Homer Simpson, “Oh, why did they have to screw up a perfectly serviceable wagon story with all that fruity singing?“
a very normal movie about Clint Eastwood, Lee Marvin, and Jean Seberg forming a poly triad in the midst of the gold rush, in a town populated only by miners and sex workers. it’s a musical
I was not expecting a musical western, even less so having Clint Eastwood performing some musical numbers. The songs were alright, and the story was decent. Really enjoyed the destruction of No Name City at the end.
