Paint Your Wagon

Paint Your Wagon

Stake Your Claim To The Musical Goldmine of '69!

Directed by Joshua Logan

Produced by Paramount Pictures, Alan Jay Lerner Productions

1969164 min6.3 / 10

A rollicking, irreverent musical comedy that treats the gold rush as a playground for unconventional partnerships, hedonism, and absurdist schemes.

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.

Questions people ask

  • Is Paint Your Wagon scary? Barely. Less frightening than 84% of films.

  • Is Paint Your Wagon sad? Barely. Less sad than 80% of films.

  • Is Paint Your Wagon easy watching? Yes. More comforting than 77% of films.

  • Does Paint Your Wagon end with hope? Somewhat. More hopeful than 70% of films.

  • Is Paint Your Wagon violent? About average. Almost exactly mid-range.

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Cinnamon Score

How much this film gives you that nothing else will, and whether it delivers.

Familiar shape, done well.

Rarity45

How unlike any other film this one feels

Surprise72

How much more it delivers than it promises

Love35

How much audiences actually like it

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Like Paint Your Wagon, But Darker

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Similar, pushed toward warmer and easier.

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Same territory, far fewer people have seen it.

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