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Release Date:
15 October 1969 (USA)
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Tagline:
Stake Your Claim To The Musical Goldmine of '69! more
Plot:
Two unlikely prospector partners share the same wife in a California gold rush mining town. full summary | add synopsis
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Awards:
Nominated for Oscar.
Another 1 win
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2 nominations
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(5 articles)
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the cap on the timecapsule
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Lee Marvin | ... | Ben Rumson |
 | Clint Eastwood | ... | Pardner |
 | Jean Seberg | ... | Elizabeth |
 | Harve Presnell | ... | Rotten Luck Willie |
| Ray Walston | ... | Mad Jack Duncan |
 | Tom Ligon | ... | Horton Fenty |
| Alan Dexter | ... | Parson |
| William O'Connell | ... | Horace Tabor |
| Benny Baker | ... | Haywood Holbrook (as Ben Baker) |
| Alan Baxter | ... | Mr. Fenty |
| Paula Trueman | ... | Mrs. Fenty |
 | Robert Easton | ... | Atwell |
 | Geoffrey Norman | ... | Foster |
| H.B. Haggerty | ... | Steve Bull |
| Terry Jenkins | ... | Joe Mooney |
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Rated PG-13 for thematic material.
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Runtime:
158 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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2.20 : 1 more
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4-Track Stereo (35 mm prints) |
70 mm 6-Track (70 mm prints)
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Canada:A (Nova Scotia) |
Canada:G (Quebec) |
Canada:PG (Manitoba/Ontario) |
UK:A (original rating) |
USA:TV-14 |
Australia:PG |
Finland:K-8 |
Norway:16 |
Spain:13 |
Sweden:11 |
UK:PG |
USA:M (original rating) |
USA:PG-13 (re-rated: 2001) |
West Germany:16 |
Singapore:PG
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Lesley Ann Warren and Sally Ann Howes turned down the role of Elizabeth. Kim Novak was also approached, and Diana Rigg was set to star as Elizabeth but was forced to withdraw due to illness.
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Anachronisms: Soon after Ben, Pardner, and Mad Jack open their secret "gold mine" underneath No Name City, a young farmer is recruited to help dig. To emphasize the need for secrecy, Mad Jack threatens to shove a stick of dynamite in the farmer's mouth if he blabs. The film is set in 1849 or 1850, before California becomes a state. Dynamite wasn't yet invented (it was patented by Alfred Nobel in 1867).
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Parson:
Ye godless jaspers! Who are ya? Freemasons? Rosicrucians? Heathen emissaries from the depths of Babylon? Boozers! Gluttons! Gamblers! Fornicators!
Steve Bull: Whassa fornicator?
Haywood Holbrook: I dunno. I ain't a religious man.
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Steve Bull: Whassa fornicator?
Haywood Holbrook: I dunno. I ain't a religious man.
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Featured in "The O'Reilly Factor: (2008-09-09)" (2008)
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Best Things
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paint your wagon is, in a lot of ways, the end of an era that I cherished the most (my teen years) the musicals were always there as a kid even though I didn't really like them in the fifties (except 7 brides) ....but there is something about the orchestration of those musical movies that sounded so similar....and true to its genre, paint your wagon's soundtrack had a timecapsuled, nostalgic feel reminiscent of those bygone days when musicals ruled.....the negative rap on this film is probably due to the timing of its release...the Vietnam war was hot and perhaps people couldn't accept its bawdy comedy and musical theme....even though it should have been a perfect escape type film...it is considered a major flop....like some others that took on an afterlife that superseded its theatrical run...word of mouth finds favor with the film in almost all venues....except some of the reviews I've read recently.
I love the depth of the dialogue and the nitty gritty reality of the mindsets of those prospectors who took from life what they needed and created their own utopian world (or tried to)...and ironically were sad (inside)even though there was uproarious drinking and carousing...which characterizes man self destructive nature when left to himself to do as he pleases...not unlike ancient rome.
lee marvin played the lead role so well...it was almost as if it had been written for him...even surpassing his clever coolness of a similar character "a #1" (emperor of the north...a film about the great depression hobos)
in paint your wagon so much of man's delemia is characterized in dialogue about growing up, doing what feels good, and paying the price for such behavior later.....the grim reminder of man's struggle with his own self can best be shown in the scene with ben rumson as he takes an assessment of his life in a few brief words to holmbrook (the mediator)...."there are two kinds of people....them going somewhere and them going nowhere....I'm an exodus to nowhere....sometimes I get mighty homesick"....then you hear the profound lyrics to the song "born under a wander star" where even the most blessed place one can get will never be satisfying enough to make these kinds of folk want to stay.
another heady piece is the scene with clint singing "gold fever" and how greed will turn people into a total different character from what they were before the fever hit....
this movie has a lot of heavy thoughts and depth even though it is a great comedy film...it's the reason it is my favorite movie of all times....really cool characters....outrageous comedy....mind provoking dialogue...and a nostalgic soundtrack that will take you back to the fifties....
as for the bad rap on lee marvins singing...just how great would those songs have come off if he had had an operatic baritone with perfect pitch?...in a word...fake.