Paint Your Wagon (1969)
Runtime: 2 hrs 44 mins
Synopsis: Set in No Name City, California during the gold rush, this musical comedy concerns prospectors Ben and Pardner and their unusual nuclear family. The business partners strike a deal to share Ben's wife Elizabeth, whom Ben purchased from a Mormon. But the free-thinking Ben is worried about... Set in No Name City, California during the gold rush, this musical comedy concerns prospectors Ben and Pardner and their unusual nuclear family. The business partners strike a deal to share Ben's wife Elizabeth, whom Ben purchased from a Mormon. But the free-thinking Ben is worried about rivalry over Elizabeth from the town's all-male population, hungry for female company. So he arranges to kidnap a stagecoach full of working girls on their way to a nearby city, and sets up a brothel in No Name. That puts the place on the map and business booms, but competition for gold also grows. Later, needing cash to survive the winter, Ben and an accomplice, Mad Jack Duncan, tunnel under the town's buildings to catch loose golddust falling from the floorboards. But No Name collapses under the strain, and everyone moves on, except for Pardner and Elizabeth. [More]
Genre: Musical & Performing Arts
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Lee Marvin, Jean Seberg, Ray Walston, Harve Presnell
Producer: Alan J. Lerner
Director: Tom Shaw
Composer: Frederick Loewe, Nelson Riddle
DVD Info
Release:
Jul 24, 2001
DVD Features:
- Region 1
- Keep Case
- Anamorphic Widescreen
Audio:
- Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround - English
- Dolby Digital Surround - English
- Dolby Digital Mono - French
- Additional Release Material
- Trailer - 1. Original Theatrical
Interactive Features:
- Interactive Menus
- Scene Selection
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Reviews
This last gasp MGM musical still features enough curiousity to make it worthwhile.
Not as bad as some would make you believe. But I'm still not looking forward to that Clint Eastwood Sings Sinatra album.
...a surplus of good, hummable tunes, breezy dialogue and characterizations, beautiful location shots, and excellent DVD transfer.
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