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zmu| Paint Your Wagon
ID:
1969
Comments:
Director: Joshua Logan
Screenplay: Alan Jay Lerner, Paddy Chayefsky
Producer: Alan Jay Lerner, Tom Shaw
Cast: Lee Marvin, Clint Eastwood, Jean Seberg, Harve Presnell, Ray Walston
Genre: Classics

Running Time: 158
Aspect Ratio:  1.85:1 (NTSC Widescreen)
Sound: Dolby
Subtitles: English
Features:
Studio:  Paramount DVD Region:  1 PG-13
DVD Release:  Jul 2001 Discs:  1 (DVD) [$9.98]
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Reviews:  This film and "Hello Dolly" were the knockout blows to the studio movie musical, but "Paint" doesn't deserve its tarnished name. Ben Rumson (Lee Marvin) takes the model of a rakish derelict to an unequaled high as a prospector who teams up with a greenhorn named Pardner (Clint Eastwood), and they both end up marrying the same scorned woman (Jean Seberg). No-Name City, the prospecting town they found, is Sodom and Gomorrah without the camels, and a vision of humanity left to its own devices. The songs are mostly wonderful melodies from Lerner and Loewe, with definite high points, notably "They Call the Wind Maria" and "Wand'rin' Star." Clint Eastwood always gets flack for his versions of "I Still See Elisa" and "I Talk to the Trees," but that scorn is equally undeserved. Perhaps "Paint"'s biggest sin, in retrospect, was trying to combine the aesthetics of the musical with the aesthetics of the male protagonists' world-weary machismo. Not the easiest task, but "Paint" pulls it off. "--Keith Simanton"


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