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"Paint Your Wagon" is one of my favorite movies and the only musical I like.
It's a comedy set in the rough-and-tumble California gold fields of the early 1850s.
Both Clint Eastwood and Lee Marvin sing. They don't have incredible voices, but they fit the rough-hewn theme of the movie.
Jean Seberg plays the only woman in a gold camp of men, purchased by Lee Marvin from a passing Mormon who had two wives.
She does a great job and is nice on the eyes. Seberg killed herself in a Paris suburb in 1979. Or did she? Rumors abound that she was killed by the FBI for her anti-war activities and association with black radicals.
It's a play that will never be done in Salt Lake City, for sure. The passing Mormon is not painted in a good light.
It's a fun, rollicking movie that includes Ray Walston as an Irish miner. Remember him as the Martian in the TV series, "My Favorite Martian?"
The soundtrack is great too and includes songs such as "Paint Your Wagon," "They Call the Wind Mariah" and "No Name City."
A great soundtrack for long drives. A fun movie that will make you wonder why it's been hiding all these years.
 
Eastwood is also a talented piano player.
One story is that several years ago he did record an album that never saw the light of day. One of the songs on the album was "Love in the Hot Afternoon". His handlers felt that it would be bad for his image. The song became a big hit for a Country artist and I do not recall his name....Gene(somebody) I think.
 
Originally posted by Climber:
Eastwood is also a talented piano player.
One story is that several years ago he did record an album that never saw the light of day. One of the songs on the album was "Love in the Hot Afternoon". His handlers felt that it would be bad for his image. The song became a big hit for a Country artist and I do not recall his name....Gene(somebody) I think.
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I'd rather watch him paint pictures of bridges.
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Lee Marvin was great in it, too. I just about hurt myself laughing the first time I saw the movie.

"Welcome to Hell, Parson!"
 
I try to catch it whenever it's on the tube. I saw when it first came out
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One of my favorites. A few great lines:

Mrs. Fenty: You should read the Bible, Mr. Rumson.
Ben Rumson: I have read the Bible, Mrs. Fenty.
Mrs. Fenty: Didn't that discourage you about drinking?
Ben Rumson: No, but it sure killed my appetite for readin'!

[Ben and Partner are walking through the mining camp]
Ben Rumson: Hi, Willy! How're things goin'?
'Rotten Luck'Willie: I ain't won a hand in two weeks.
Ben Rumson: (to Partner) They call him 'Rotten Luck' Willie. You couldn't beat him with five aces.
Pardner: Oh, I don't gamble.
Ben Rumson: Neither does he.

[shouted from clifftop to riverbed and back, very slowly]
Steve Bull: IS... THEY... DEAD...?
Ben Rumson: THEY... BETTER... BE... CAUSE... I'M... GONNA... BURY 'EM!
 
I like this movie, but I guess the critics didn't. There was an awful lot of wasted time and money, and I think this is the film that convinced Eastwood that he'd be better off with his own production company. Kind of interesting for we Oregonians. I remember one of our Portland neighbors drove over to Baker near where this was filmed to take part in this film, just as a background actor, as he was no real actor. Still, for a basic non-shoot 'em up, this was a fun movie.
 
One of my all time favorites. I think Lee Marvin stole the show from Clint. Not an easy feat, But his character was more lively. All in all a great film.
 
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