Paint Your Wagon | 
 enlarge | Director: Joshua Logan
Actors: Lee Marvin, Clint Eastwood, Jean Seberg, Harve Presnell, Ray Walston
Studio: Paramount
Category: Video
List Price: CDN$ 5.99
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Rating:  58 reviews
Sales Rank: 709
Format: Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: VHS Tape
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 4.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 0792101464
UPC: 097360693331
EAN: 9786300216198
ASIN: 6300216195
Theatrical Release Date: October 15, 1969
Release Date: January 29, 2002
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Condition: Ships from the US. Expected delivery 7-14 business days Very Good condition. Quality guaranteed! In original artwork/packaging unless otherwise noted.
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From Amazon.com
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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 Good Old Fun May 26, 2004
Lynelle Morelan (San Angelo, TX)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Wow, how can you not love Clint Eastwood's singing? This movie is fun and hilarious. A little action and a lot of laughter. The characters are witty and the plot is creative. I would recomend this movie to anyone, unless you don't agree with drinking, smoking and gambling. Just watch the movie and enjoy.
My first true laugh April 14, 2004
poodlecitrus (Dixie)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Thirty years ago when I as a young buck watched this movie, it was a delightful surprise. That Lee Marvin was so funny. You never forget that first kiss,well you never forget that first really uncontrollable laugh either. Lee Marvin, like alot of heavies, had a gift for comedy. The part of the movie when Marvin thinks he is in hell is so classic. The closing song is bittersweet. It is hard to say good-bye to all the great characters. Ah to be so young and innocent again!
 Think of it as a Giant Hippie Party February 9, 2004
Old Hippy (PORTLAND, OR United States)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
No name city was built in the Wallawa Mts. outside Baker City, Oregon, and a call went out for "longhairs" to act as extras. Hippies were big on authentic Western costume and could supply their own wardrobe right down to the guns (yes, these hippies were armed to the teeth). They came with wives, kids, big dogs and bigger trucks and settled in for the summer, fall, winter, spring, and...I believe...a second summer. Everything you see in this movie is REAL...the poker game in the background, the French whores (imported from Paris, and yes, they plied their trade on the set and in hotels in Baker), the antiques, the long hair and handlebar moustaches. The opium den and bootleg liquor. All real and functioning. After the filming, there was a showing in Portland of the rough movie for the extras, and it was heartbreakingly beautiful. The Norman Luboff choir was not yet dubbed in and the music WAS the extras singing, and we got to hear Jean Seburg sing her part, and the SCALE of it was monumental....you really got the feeling of this tiny place lost in the Westerm wilderness. It was wonderful...makes me angry/sad to see the finished movie as cut in LA...the studio did their best to turn it into a routine and banal Broadway musical. Wish you fans could have seen it as I did in 1969.
My favorite Lee Marvin December 8, 2003
MarianaP (Lisbon, Portugal)
This is the Lee Marvin I love and wish I could have met. I love him in Gorky Park as well, but to a lesser extent.
The movie has some flaws, like Jean Seberg, the unbelievably corny man who sings "They Call the Wind Maria" in an operatic voice, the ending isn't too satisfying either - but everything else is fantastic.The musical score is great. I heard (can't swear to it) that it's from the same composer who wrote the score for "My Fair Lady". Clint Eastwood and Lee Marvin are no professional singers, but I can't imagine anyone else but Eastwood singing "Gold Fever", or anyone but Marvin singing "I Was Born Under a Wondering Star", two personal favourites of mine. You can't miss the hypocritical Parson, the wonderful No Name City where the story unfolds, the deeply religious boy who is "corrupted" by Marvin, his friendship with Eastwood's character, the wittiness and humour of the dialogues...It's all as good as it gets. And, like Mary Poppins (another musical), it's a movie with a deeply subversive and irreverent underlying message, only "Mary..." was more about challenging authority and thinking for yourself, no matter what your age is - while this movie is more in the lines of challenging society's moral rules about relationships and marriage, and about how there can be deep tenderness between straight men. Now that homophobia is luckily not the norm anymore and same sex love can be depicted on film, just making a movie where there is so much, and so touching a friendship between two men, is almost bizarrely original and fresh.
An Old Favorite That looks Great On DVD! October 25, 2003
Steve Stalzle (Colorado)
Ok, I've heard all of the criticism of this film, and I agree with some of it. It's overdone in places, and lacking in others, but overall, it's still a great story at its' heart,... and where else can you hear both Tough Guys Lee Marvin and Clint Eastwood sing???? The story does fall apart toward the end, though, I do agree. I wouldn't necessarily recommend this as a 'family' movie for kids,...It does have 'Adult' themes of Prostitution, Drunkeness,etc. I'd rate it PG-13, I think.
And it's a damn long film, too--almost 3 hours--It could have been cut some for time. I have heard from various sources, including both Eastwood and Marvin's Biographies on the A&E Channel that the production was troubled from the start, and was a mess to film. Eastwood says that it's one of his LEAST favorite films because of the on-set difficulties with Marvin, & the Director, Josh Logan, and the location shooting.
The settings are gorgeous, though. I believe they filmed the movie in the mountains of Oregon, which were inaccessible except by trucks, and the stars were flown in by helicopter.
The late Great Ray Walston makes a great 'Mad Jack Duncan', and is one of many fabulous character actors to appear in this film. Overall, the movie holds up as a great musical Western, and I have fond memories of seeing the film when it first came out in 1969, when I was 5 years old and I played the Soundtrack Record Album over and over as a kid.
I still know all the songs, and have the soundtrack album on CD!
This film, along with 'OLIVER!', which came out in 1968, made me the fan of musicals (and movies in general) that I am today! Give 'Paint Your Wagon' a chance, even if you're not a fan of musicals! It's a good time Whoop-Ti-Yi Shivaree!
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