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Paint Your Wagon

Paint Your Wagon

Stake Your Claim To The Musical Goldmine of '69!

19696.32h 44m

Overview

A Michigan farmer and a prospector form a partnership in the California gold country. Their adventures include buying and sharing a wife, hijacking a stage, kidnapping six prostitutes, and turning their mining camp into a boom town. Along the way there is plenty of drinking, gambling, and singing. They even find time to do some creative gold mining.

Directed by Joshua Logan
Written by Alan Jay Lerner, Paddy Chayefsky, Cheryl Crawford
Produced by Alan Jay Lerner
Box OfficeBudget: $20.0MRevenue: $31.7M

Top Cast

Lee Marvin

Lee Marvin

Ben Rumson

Clint Eastwood

Clint Eastwood

"Pardner"

Jean Seberg

Jean Seberg

Elizabeth Woodling

Ray Walston

Ray Walston

"Mad Jack" Duncan

Harve Presnell

Harve Presnell

"Rotten Luck Willie"

Tom Ligon

Tom Ligon

Horton Fenty

Alan Dexter

Alan Dexter

Parson

Terry Jenkins

Terry Jenkins

Joe Mooney

Paula Trueman

Paula Trueman

Mrs. Fenty

H.B. Haggerty

H.B. Haggerty

Steve Bull

Themes & Keywords

miningpolyamoryprospector

About Paint Your Wagon

Paint Your Wagon is a comedy, western, music film released in 1969 exploring themes of mining, polyamory, prospector. Directed by Joshua Logan, it stars Lee Marvin, Clint Eastwood, Jean Seberg. A Michigan farmer and a prospector form a partnership in the California gold country. Their adventures include buying and sharing a wife, hijacking a stage, kidnapping six prostitutes, and turning their mining camp into a boom town. Along the way there is plenty of drinking, gambling, and singing. They even find time to do some creative gold mining.

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