“Paint Your Wagon” is western musical film that tells the story of prospectors during the California Gold Rush, with a subplot about a polygamist Mormon looking to sell off one of his wives. Director Joshua Logan (“Camelot” 1967) and screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky went through the motions of adapting the 1951 Broadway musical by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe to film, with mediocre results.
First of all, the atrocious musical performances by stars Clint Eastwood and Lee Marvin reveals bad casting decisions by management. The boring storylines, casting problems, and bad performances all contributed to this box office disaster for producer Alan Jay Lerner, Alan Jay Lerner Productions, The Malpaso Company (Eastwood’s production company), and Paramount Pictures.
Even co-stars Jean Seberg, Ray Walston, and Harve Presnell, additional songs composed by Andre Previn, and songs orchestrated and conducted by the great Nelson Riddle could not help the unwatchable mess of 1969’s “Paint Your Wagon.”
Paint Your Wagon (1969)
cinema
My Review
“Paint Your Wagon” is western musical film that tells the story of prospectors during the California Gold Rush, with a subplot about a polygamist Mormon looking to sell off one of his wives. Director Joshua Logan (“Camelot” 1967) and screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky went through the motions of adapting the 1951 Broadway musical by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe to film, with mediocre results.
First of all, the atrocious musical performances by stars Clint Eastwood and Lee Marvin reveals bad casting decisions by management. The boring storylines, casting problems, and bad performances all contributed to this box office disaster for producer Alan Jay Lerner, Alan Jay Lerner Productions, The Malpaso Company (Eastwood’s production company), and Paramount Pictures.
Even co-stars Jean Seberg, Ray Walston, and Harve Presnell, additional songs composed by Andre Previn, and songs orchestrated and conducted by the great Nelson Riddle could not help the unwatchable mess of 1969’s “Paint Your Wagon.”