Paint Your Wagon
1969 · Movie · PG-13 · 164 min · ★ 6.3 · 42% critics
In the California gold rush, two unlikely partners try to strike it rich and end up building a rowdy frontier camp into a booming town. Their rough-and-tumble days bring messy deals, a shared marriage arrangement, and plenty of drinking, gambling, and songs as the community grows wilder and more ambitious.
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Details
- Years
- 1969
- Release date
- 1969-10-15
- Language
- English
- Rated
- PG-13
- Runtime
- 164 min
- Critic score
- 42/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.3/10 (276 votes)
- Box office
- $14,500,000
- Budget
- $20,000,000
About
You’ll likely enjoy this if you’re up for a sprawling, bawdy musical-western with goofy humor, big ensemble energy, and lots of songs; Not for you if you want a tight plot or dislike musicals like Camelot.
Pros: big, lively musical moments; oddball frontier humor; memorable songs | Cons: very long runtime; uneven pacing; singing not for all
Themes
- mining
- polyamory
- prospector
Awards & recognition
- Academy Award — Best Original Musical Score · 1970 · nominated
Cast & crew
Lee Marvin
as Ben Rumson
Clint Eastwood
as "Pardner"
Jean Seberg
as Elizabeth Woodling
Ray Walston
as "Mad Jack" Duncan
Harve Presnell
as "Rotten Luck Willie"
Tom Ligon
as Horton Fenty
Alan Dexter
as Parson
Terry Jenkins
as Joe Mooney
Paula Trueman
as Mrs. Fenty
H.B. Haggerty
as Steve Bull
Directed by Joshua Logan