Paint Your Wagon

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Nick Z What was it about the mid-1960's, that every major musical cast almost always featured stars who actually couldn't sing a note or dance a step? Lee Marvin and Clint Eastwood are among the most atrociously miscast spectacles in this overwrought and bloated big-screen resurrection of Lerner and Loewe's lithe stagecraft. Perhaps if Mr. Eastwood is talking to the trees, its' only because they are the only audience quite unable to escape his flat tones. Lee Marvin plays a vigorous town drunk. But every time he croaks a song, we are painfully reminded that his acting virtues lay elsewhere. Costly, and a total flop, it's easy to see why. Paint Your Wagon is a travesty. It's as though the director, Joshua Logan, once a darling of the genre, decided to truly test how bad he could make a musical and still get away with it. Note to Mr. Logan. You found out. Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 10/13/25 Full Review Leo D Jean Seberg is a damn beautiful woman and a very good actress. Lee Marvin and Eastwood are funny in this musical. Beautiful cinematography and very entertaining. Eastwood and Seberg were an item during the filming of this musical. Later when the FBI attempted to discredit Seberg because of her support for the Black Panthers and Seberg had a miscarriage in 1970 which caused her to attempt suicide each year on the anniversary of her child’s death until her body was found in 1979 in a car in Paris. She had been dead for several days. Tragic story. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 08/06/25 Full Review Rick G Wonderful entertainment Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 03/22/25 Full Review Vander A Whoever gave this movie a 48% should be taken out and shot. This movie is FAB-U-LOUS. The story, the scenery, the comedy, the music, the singing, did I mention the comedy??? A true classic. I've personally seen it at least 6 or 7 times and it just keeps getting better if only because overall modern movies continue to decline precipitously. Lee Marvin steals the show. Jean Seberg is super excellent, and oh yeah, Clint Eastwood is in it too. MUST SEE. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 08/19/24 Full Review Johan J Just finished watching this movie again and it's criminally underrated. Admittedly it's too long and should probably have trimmed down 20-30 minutes and some of the subplots. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 03/16/24 Full Review Pura V Clumsy movie with Clint Eastwood wandering around trying to do something. Lee Marvin saves the show. Maybe. Still, "Paint Your Wagon" has the best of the California gold rush years. The nasty stuff is overlooked. If you're trying to explain how Anglo culture got started in California, and if you want to know why California is different from other places, this movie is a starting place. I'm being generous with the stars. The movie is good but it's not great. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/29/24 Full Review Read all reviews

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