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I was living in Salzburg, Austria, when the film was in theaters, and "Wand'rin' Star" was Number 1 there, as well. I heard it in clubs and on the radio, all the time. I liked his monotone delivery of it, and the orchestration was great. My only real issue with it, is Logan's lousy direction of it. As for how they say "Maria", I believe that's just the old western way of saying it. The American phonetic way Ma-rye-a, rather than the Latin Ma-ree-yah.
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I was living in Salzburg, Austria, when the film was in theaters, and "Wand'rin' Star" was Number 1 there, as well.
When they weren't belting choruses of Die Wach am Rhein down at the beer-hall.
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"Gonna paint this wagon, gonna paint it fine. I'm gonna use an oil base paint, because the wood is pine."
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I never could understand why the different version of "The First Thing You Know" was used in the Film rather than the Soundtrack Album Version which I feel is superior and far more listenable. Being so used to hearing the Album, it really grates when I watch the Movie.
Anyone have any inside information on why this decision by the Filmmakers.?
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Jan 17, 2007 - 10:10 PM
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I too love this movie, if for no other reason, as an example of "the kind they don't make anymore." Film making has become so casual and this was from a period that still adheard to classy, elegant production values and presentation.
I was thrilled when I first saw it (I was about 16) during its roadshow presentation. I was still reeling from (IMO) the glory that was STAR! but almost hurt that it was not received more enthusiastically. Alas, by the time PAINT YOUR WAGON arrived, the age of the huge, "scope", super stereo musicals was over and it's poor reception as well, made it all to bittersweet. (GOODBY MR. CHIPS, is another example of a really good film being "dismissed" as too old fashioned and out of touch.)
I feel this film, as so many others of that time, is terribly underrated. It is a really entertaining and enjoyable film, expertly produced, photographed and directed.
Josh Logan always had a way of injecting a kind of hard to notice (but still evident), seething sexuality into his films. SOUTH PACIFIC, CAMELOT, PICNIC, etc. all have this quality. PAINT YOUR WAGON just happend to have it in spades. For lack of better description, it featured a three-way! I always loved this quality about his films, and to this day, I love them because of it. PAINT YOUR WAGON is high on my list!
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Seberg just needed Marvin Mitchelson as her lawyer to file a palimony suit against Marvin, like Michelle Triola.
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I just keep thinking about that "Simpsons" episode when Homer rents the movie and mistakenly believes it will be another badass Eastwood affair....until the singing starts.
"I'm gonna paint this wagon,
I'm gonna paint it fine,
I'm going to use oil-based paint
because this wood is pine."
Tim
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Jan 28, 2007 - 8:48 PM
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PAINT YOUR WAGON is a testament to how sumptuously, ravishingly gorgeous movies in the 1950s and 1960s could look, and just how dreadfully awful a film from any period could be.
A few years earlier, my cousins made an equally ill-conceived film called THE HALLELUJAH TRAIL. It's jaw-droppingly beautiful to look at, has a terrific cast, and boasts a magnificent Elmer Bernstein score -- and is utterly unwatcheable. A comedy that is not only not funny, but offensively unfunny. At an hour and thirty minutes it would be just another very bad movie but, at two hours and forty-five minutes, it's a crime against humanity.
Obviously, both films had been made by people who had great track records, and should've known better (well, Joshua Logan seems to have specialized in making wretched movies; he was a disaster as a film director) but, for whatever reason(s), they inflicted their -- shall we say -- imperfect visions on an unsuspecting and undeserving public.
It just goes to prove that all the money and good intentions in the world don't automatically yield a work of art, or worthwhile entertainment.
Ah bless.
The laboriously nom-de-plumed Mark of Score-o clearly under the impression that he's a mover and a shaker.
Still waiting for those other MGM movies of the 50's that you stated had mute, stationary MGM lions in the style of BEN-HUR.
I can personally vouch for audiance enjoyment of both HALLELUJAH TRAIL and PAINT YOUR WAGON.
How can you state that a movie is magnificently cast and photographed with a wonderful score without having seen it at least several times.
And these cousins of yours....
What qualifications do do have to state opinion as fact when refering to the work of Josh Logan?
You sound to me like a potential candidate for the next seriers of the UK Big Brother.
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