Paint Your Wagon (1969)
Directed by Joshua Logan
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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For aficionados of such things, I should point out that this movie is not quite in the rarefied company of "Paint Your Wagon" – which featured Clint Eastwood and Lee Marvin tonelessly warbling – or "At Long Last Love," which pretty much soured Hollywood on the musical genre for years.
Esta composición vendrá reforzada por un momento de aparición determinante dentro del avance narrativo, una técnica de edición que la recorta y la deja perfectamente enmarcada en una escena primordial como protagonista indiscutible de la acción, como ocurrió con la inolvidable Wandering Star que Lee Marvin interpretó con trágica resignación en el western de Joshua Logan, La leyenda de la ciudad sin nombre (Paint Your Wagon, 1969).
(He clearly hasn’t seen Paint Your Wagon).
Given his knack for singing — the guy truly is multi-talented — MacFarlane might have done better with following the musical comedy example of Paint Your Wagon rather than the slapstick of Mel Brooks for his western swing.
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In one episode, Tom Waits plays a harrumphing gold prospector who looks and sounds even more unkempt and gruff than Lee Marvin in Paint Your Wagon .
Of course, there were plenty of mediocre pictures that got roadshow treatment in the glory days—for every “Lawrence of Arabia” there was a “55 Days at Peking” (or virtually any other Samuel Bronston production), and for every “Sound of Music” or “My Fair Lady” there was a “Paint Your Wagon” or “Star.”