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Lack of good storyline.

Good concept, poorly executed.

One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

And Eastwood belting out sappy love songs is an 11! This is a must see show. It has outstanding tunes, a great cast AND you will shake with laughter in your golden calf, ankle, thigh and upper half.If you're looking for something different, here it is. I mean, here it is! It's really all about the soundtrack for me but you have to see the show at least once. I can watch this every year but I can listen to the soundtrack daily.

Released toward the end of the era of big-budget musicals, "Paint Your Wagon," with a tuneful score by Lerner and Lowe, was maligned by critics for its bloated production, non-singing leads, and clunky direction. However, more than four decades later, the film remains a guilty pleasure for many and offers enough entertainment to please most. However, while director Joshua Logan may have shown genius directing stage musicals, his work on film falls flat. His screen musical adaptations, "Camelot," "South Pacific," and this film were all directed with a heavy hand that failed to capture the stage magic in their transition to the screen. Vastly revised by Alan Jay Lerner and Paddy Chayefsky from the original Broadway production, "Paint Your Wagon" is set during the California Gold Rush, where two unlikely men partner up and share everything, eventually even a wife. Although most of the bawdy aspects are suggested rather than shown, the menage-a-trois at the core of the film may have been too adult for family audiences in the late 1960's, and extolling the virtues of prostitution for a virtually all male town is also quite adult.Although cast largely with non-singers in the tradition of such other screen adaptations as "My Fair Lady" and "Camelot," there is little damage to the songs, because many are choral numbers, and the show's best song, "They Call the Wind Maria," is sung by an accomplished Broadway musical star, Harve Presnell. Clint Eastwood has modest singing skills; his voice is not bad, his rendition of "I Talk to the Trees" is acceptable, and, to be fair, he did record an album of western songs at one point. Jean Seberg's voice was dubbed, but she is colorless in the lead female role; a Shirley Jones would have been stronger both vocally and dramatically. For a woman supposedly in love with two men, Seberg generates little heat or chemistry with her co-stars. Lee Marvin is appropriately colorful, although his voice is gravelly and rough, and he seems to be reprising his "Cat Ballou" performance. While the choreography has also been criticized, the sight of a group of scruffy miners breaking into perfectly synchronized dance steps like "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers," would look ludicrous.Admittedly "Paint Your Wagon" is over long and over produced; a silly prolonged climax that consists of endless special effects may have been intended for laughs, but it falls flat. However, despite much to justifiably criticize, the music is captivating, most of the performances are fun to watch, and the movie is often just plain fun.

Just watched this movie for the first time since the 70's. What a light hearted and wonderful blast from the past. I have always been a massive Clint Eastwood fan, and a big Lee Marvin fan, so this was a double treat. Clint was good in this, but Lee Marvin was brilliant! All round great movie for me and my wife, and her parents love this movie also!The songs were original and entertaining, but Lee Marvin's " Wandering Star" is a classic, and probably the main reason why i decided to purchase the DVD for a second viewing. So glad I did. The laughs were frequent and often subtle. The theme was slightly irreligious,but isn't that a treat? Another Clint Eastwood classic to add to my collection!

Alan Lerner was like Oscar Hammerstein inasmuch as both men preferred to write both libretto and lyrics of shows that they worked on and produced arguably their best work with one composer (respectively Fritz Loewe and Dick Rodgers) despite collaborating with other composers. Whilst Fritz Loewe was still active in 1969 - he wrote the score for a movie version of The Little Prince with Lerner in 1974 - he was more or less ready to call it a day and put his feet up, Lerner, on the other hand was still very much involved in musical theatre and would go on to write book and lyrics for another half a dozen shows up to 1983 so it's hard to understand why he would have agreed to allow Paddy Chayefsky to beef up his original book and share screenplay credit with him. He was already working with Andre Previn (their Broadway show Coco opened that same year) so was probably more conducive to writing extra material with Previn. Overall this is a disappointing effort as was, to be fair, the original stage show dating back to 1951. The film has a bravura performance by Lee Marvin more or less replicating his role in Cat Ballou but the other two leads, Clint Eastwood and Jean Seberg just about get by and direcor Josh Logan puts a little too much faith in rousing male choruses like the title number and 'There's A Coach Comin' In'. Just about worth a look but one is enough.