Paint Your Wagon is a 1969 Western musical film directed by Joshua Logan, starring Lee Marvin, Clint Eastwood and Jean Seberg. The film is based on the 1951 musical by Lerner and Loewe, which was adapted by Paddy Chayefsky.
Plot[]
Ben Rumson (Lee Marvin) happens upon a wrecked wagon containing a dead man and his surviving brother, Pardner (Clint Eastwood), in the wilds of California during the Gold Rush. At the burial, they discover gold dust and stake a claim. Soon a mining camp dubbed "No Name City" emerges, rife with lonely men starved for female companionship. When a polygamist Mormon arrives looking to sell off a wife (Jean Seberg), a bidding war commences.
Cast[]
- Lee Marvin as Ben Rumson
- Clint Eastwood as Sylvester Newel/"Pardner"
- Jean Seberg as Elizabeth
- Harve Presnell as Rotten Luck Willie
- Ray Walston as "Mad Jack" Duncan
- Tom Ligon as Horton Fenty
- Alan Dexter as The Parson
- William O'Connell as Horace Tabor
- Ben Baker as Haywood Holbrook
- Alan Baxter as Mr. Fenty
- Paula Trueman as Mrs. Fenty
- Robert Easton as Atwell