1969 · paramount · lerner-loewe · western
Paint Your Wagon
Directed by Joshua Logan2h 44m1969
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.
Our read: Paint Your Wagon (1969) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded paramount · lerner-loewe · western entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, measured paramount / lerner-loewe, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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