PAINT YOUR WAGON (1969) ¢ ¢ ¢
D: Joshua Logan
Lee Marvin, Clint Eastwood, Jean Seberg,
Harve Presnell, Ray Walston, William O'Connell
A big, long, boisterous musical with Eastwood and Marvin as partners during the California Gold Rush, and Jean Seberg as the woman they share. There's nothing very subtle about this, but the people who made it don't seem to care, and probably neither should you. Clint talks to the trees, Harve Presnell calls the wind Maria, and Seberg imagines a life behind closed doors, but the unlikely musical highlight is Marvin, trudging through the wind and rain singing "Wand'rin' Star". You could skip the rest of the movie if you had to, but that's the part you don't want to miss. The songs are by Lerner and Loewe.
