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Paint Your Wagon
List Price: $12.99 Our Price: $9.74
DVD - 21 May, 2002
Paramount Home Video
PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
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Director: Joshua Logan
Cast: Lee Marvin, Clint Eastwood
Number of Media: 1
Features: - Color
- Closed-captioned
- Widescreen
- Dolby
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| DVD Description 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 |
| Reviews from Customers
A funny cowboy musical and a nicer side of Clint Somewhere between his spaghetti Westerns and Dirty Harry stuff, Eastwood managed to be a song-slinging cowboy in a funny, entertaining musical about the California gold rush days. It's not slapstick funny, like a Mel Brooks film, and it even has some dramatic moments. There are lots of good songs, some you may even recognize, but there is more dialogue than music in this almost three-hour show. There is some bawdiness, but no foul language. Overall, it's very enjoyable.
Undeservedly Maligned This is a very funny movie. Marvin and Eastwood's singing is not embarassing at all. You have to give them credit. You may not know, but Jean Seberg DID NOT sing her songs. She is lip- syncing to another woman's voice. The best song, of course, is Harve Presnell's "Maria." He was very underutilized in this movie, but you can catch him in "Fargo," "Bagger Vance," "The Pretender," and "Old School" among others.
The funniest part of the movie is when the Parson falls through the ground into the tunnels our heros have dug looking for gold, and lands in front of Ben Rumson who states, "Welcome to Hell, Parson!"
Misunderstood If you like Dirty Harry/Clint Eastwood westerns, I suggest staying away from this movie because you're probably used to lines like, "Go ahead, make my day." You probably can't imagine (or if you could, the thought would make you sick) a young and likeable Clint Eastwood who plays a guitar and sings love songs with an orchestra back-up, in a funny musical!
Maybe I'm wrong, but prove it.
Anyway, I liked it, and it's hard not to like this movie. It's funny! The lines are good. Joshua Logan directed it, a director with a great reputation.
The sound effects and music track sounds exceptional for a movie made so long ago, and this movie is a spectacle. For 1969, the music score is great. It's a Lerner and Loewe musical. The music score gets the complete workup. This was only a few years after "Gigi" and "My Fair Lady" won the best picture Oscar, and one can tell the effort and budget really shows in this movie.
The comedy actually works. It's about the California gold rush. 164 minutes, with an intermission too.
Here are two lines that made me laugh:
Two drunks talking, "What's a 'fornicater'?"
"I don't know, I'm not a religeous man." |
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