Clint Eastwood Movie:

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		MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) Media: DVD

Editorial Review:
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

Paint Your Wagon [Region 2] Reviews:
one of the best musicals
2009-11-25 - I wanted the best quality for my money. I have never been dissatisfied. The movie is a great bargin.

The gold rush
2009-11-23 - Paint Your wagon is a great musical comedy about the gold rush, with some impressive starpower provided by Lee Marvin and Clint
Eastwood. Normally I`m not a fan of musicals, but I make an exception for this one. Marvin and Eastwood prove that they can play
comedic roles just as well as they can play the tough guy.
This film will have you rolling on the floor with laughter. There are many great gags all through the film, topped off by a mad
chase through a gold mine. A very angry bull drops into a drunken Lee Marvin`s somewhat illicit gold mine and the chase, and the
laughs, are on.


Paint Your Wagon
2009-11-16 - Bought this copy for my sister for Christmas 2009. I have had this movie for myself for years and years. I love the music in it and the story is funny.My sister borrowed my copy and had it for about 6 months and returned it to me so I thought I'd get her a copy for herself.

Jaw droppingly subversive fun
2009-10-21 - I loathe musicals. Can't stand Westerns. Never liked Lee Marvin or Clint Eastwood. Detest hoedowns. And am allergic to California, gold, and boomtowns.

So how is it I love this film? I have no idea, but if you think you'll hate it too, I'm here to tell you: give it a chance.

I saw it on TV in the early 1970s, as a teenager, loved it then. Couldn't say why, though Harve Presnell singing "They Call The Wind Mariah" haunted me all my life, sustained me through many a weary wet mile...and put me off tenors for keeps. I saw part of it on TV in my 20s. Still seemed pretty good.

But Paint Your Wagon as been so consistently reviled by everyone for all time, I figured now, decades later, that I must have been misremembering, or too young. So I only considered seeing it now to show my partner, and to see how it treated the theme of polyamory and gender relations, which few films have ever treated with intelligence or respect. (My recollection was that it was compassionate, thoughtful, insightful, and funny...plus surprisingly punk-subversive.)

I went to various film review Web sites, and saw the film widely blasted. Then I came to Amazon and saw with great enjoyment that apparently I'm not alone in absolutely loving Paint Your Wagon.

Everyone here has already recapped the themes, the storyline, the characters, plot, songs, and quotes. All I can add is, if you'd like a trip through American culture before it descended into a miasm of corporate-media-dictated judgmental niggling, political correctness, fragmented identity politics, intolerance, and prudishness, let this movie be your Virgil. Hell, purgatory, and heaven never looked so human. Plus, watching that liberated bull reclaim hollow-gutted gold-worshipping No Name City for the earth, sky, and river has got to be one of the great mythopoetic image sequences ever on screen.

very pleased
2009-09-14 - the movie arrived in a timely manner and was in excellant condition. have watched it 5 times already. am very pleased. thank you.