Paint Your Wagon

Paint Your Wagon


Paramount, 1969, Color, 164 minutes, ****

Released October, 1969


Lerner and Loewe's Broadway smash became the first and only musical undertaking for Clint Eastwood, who stars alongside Lee Marvin as two corners of a love triangle involved with beautiful Jean Seberg and partners in a bizarre financial enterprise in Gold Rush-era California. Songs include "They Call the Wind Maria", "I Talk to the Trees" and "I'm on My Way". Directed by Joshua Logan.



Τhis is a really fun film. If you haven't seen it, you're missing out on some great comedy. Clint Eastwood and partner Lee Marvin wonder how much gold dust falls through the cracks in the floors of the saloons of the mining town, so they begin to dig a virtual honeycomb of tunnels under the entire town! It makes The Great Escape look like child's play. And there are a lot of strange goings on in a mining town, too, adding to the fun. Great fun, lots of laughs and the beautiful song "They Call the Wind Maria" sung by a mangy bunch of miners!


Produced by: Alan Jay Lerner

Associate Producer: Tom Shaw

Directed by: Joshua Logan

Screenplay and Lyrics by: Alan Jay Lerner

Based upon the musical play "Paint Your Wagon" presented on the stage by Cheryl Crawford

Adaptation by: Paddy Chayefsky

Music by: Frederick Loewe

Music for Additional Songs by: Andre Previn

Choral Arrangements and Music Assistant to the Producer: Joseph J. Lilley

Ochestral Music Scored and Conducted by: Nelson Riddle

Choral Music Conducted by: Roger Wagner

Song Score: Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe and André Previn

Choreography: "Gold Fever" and "Best Things," Jack Baker

Costumes and Production Designed by: John Truscott

Art Director: Carl Braunger

Set Decorator: James I. Berkey

Costume Coordinator: Anne Laune

Costume Supervisor: Bill Jobe

Makeup: Frank McCoy

Hairdresser: Vivian Zavitz

Director of Photography: William A. Fraker

Special Effects: Maurice Ayers and Larry Hampton

Color by Technicolor, Filmed in Panavision

Film Editor: Robert C. Jones



Awards: Academy Award nomination for Best Score (Nelson Riddle)



Cast: 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], Ben Baker [Haywood Holbrook], Alan Baxter [Mr. Fenty], Paula Trueman [Mrs. Fenty], Robert Easton [Atwell], Geoffrey Norman [Foster], H. B. Haggerty [Steve Bull], Terry Jenkins [Joe Mooney], Karl Bruck [Schermerhorn], John Mitchum [Jacob Woodling], Sue Casey [Sarah Woodling], Eddie Little Sky [Indian], Harvey Parry [Higgins], H. W. Gim [Wong], William Mims [Frock-Coated Man], Roy Jenson [Hennessey], Pat Hawley [Clendennon], Anita Gordon [singing voice of Jean Seberg], The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band [Vocals]



Musical Program: [0:00] I'm On My Way (sung by Mens Chorus offscreen behind titles); [0:07] I'm On My Way (sung by Mens Chorus offscreen); [0:09] I Still See Elisa (sung by Clint Eastwood); [0:16] The First Thing You Know (sung by Lee Marvin); [0:18] Hand Me Down That Can o' Beans (sung by Lee Marvin, the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and Chorus, danced by the Miners); [0:25] They Call the Wind Maria (sung by Harve Presnell and Mens Chorus); [0:40] Whoop-Ti-Ay (sung by the Miners [Chorus] while Ben is being cleaned up for the wedding); [0:51] A Million Miles Away Behind the Door (sung by Anita Gordon dubbing for Jean Seberg); [1:07] I Talk to the Trees (sung by Clint Eastwood); [1:11] There's a Coach Comin' In (sung by Chorus for the Miners); [1:27] Intermission; [1:34] The Gospel of No Name City (sung by Alan Dexter); [1:45] Best Things (sung by Lee Marvin, Clint Eastwood, Pat Hawley, Geoffrey Norman and Ray Walston); [1:54] Wand'rin' Star (sung by Lee Marvin and the Miners [Chorus]); [2:17] Gold Fever (sung by Clint Eastwood, the Miners and Dance Hall Girls); [2:27] The Gospel of No Name City (sung by Chorus); [2:36] I'm On My Way (sung by Chorus); [2:38] Exit Medley: excerpts of most songs from the film