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15 October 1969 (USA) moreTagline:
Stake Your Claim To The Musical Goldmine of '69! morePlot:
Two unlikely prospector partners share the same wife in a California gold rush mining town. full summary | add synopsisAwards:
Nominated for Oscar. Another 1 win & 2 nominations moreNewsDesk:
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A Nicely Naturalistic Musical more (82 total)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.Parents Guide:
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2.20 : 1 moreCertification:
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:PGFun Stuff
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Paint Your Wagon opened at the Shubert Theater on November 12, 1951 and ran for 289 performances. moreGoofs:
Anachronisms: While working in the "mine", Ben Rumson can clearly be seen wearing a carbide lamp. Carbide lamps were not developed until 1892, but the movie is set in 1849. moreQuotes:
Rumson: You show me in them commandments where it says a woman cain't have two husbands.Pardner: There AIN'T no commandment like that.
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I'm On My Way moreFAQ
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Joshua Logan's screen version of "Paint your wagon" works a treat, perhaps because the original stage version is so little known and apparently has been given something of a make-over by screen writer Paddy Chayefsky. The fact that the leads (Lee Marvin, Clint Eastwood and Jean Seberg) can't sing matters not a jot; they perform with charisma, (even Seberg is less wan than usual) and bring a touch of realism to the proceedings, their songs seeming to evolve naturally from the action. Other singing duties are performed by the splendid Harve Presnell and a rousing, mostly male, chorus for this is a musical western of a more robust kind than "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers". It's plot, which concerns mining for gold, polygamy and the building of a town, fairly races along. Logan handles the whole thing with great aplomb and brings to it some nice, naturalistic touches sadly lacking from his earlier musicals, "South Pacific" and "Camelot". Most critics didn't warm to it, though and it remains largely under-valued.