
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, kidnaping six prostitutes, and turning their mining camp into a boomtown. Along the way there is plenty of drinking, gambling, and singing. They even find time to do some creative gold mining.... (Full plot summary below)
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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, kidnaping six prostitutes, and turning their mining camp into a boomtown. 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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| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzThe pic just collapses because there's nothing going on that matters except to watch Marvin's hammy performance. |
| EmanuelLevy.ComEmanuel LevyLogan's movie is a flop on many levels, a musical in which America's most macho actors, Clint Eastwood and Lee Marvin, are miscast and required to sing. |
| Examiner.comPhil HallA mess, to be certain, but a happy and unpretentious mess that rambles along with a reckless charm. |
| IGN MoviesKJBNot as bad as some would make you believe. But I'm still not looking forward to that Clint Eastwood Sings Sinatra album. |
| The New York TimesVincent CanbyAn amiable, $20-million musical. That's a high price to pay for something that is more an expression of good intentions than evidence of sustained cinematic accomplishment. However, because amiability is never in over abundant supply, especially in Hollywood super-productions, the movie can be enjoyed more often than simply tolerated. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertIt doesn't even inspire a put-down. It just lies there in my mind -- a big, heavy lump. But in the midst of it, like a visitor from another movie, Lee Marvin desperately labors to inject some flash and sparkle. And he succeeds in bringing whole scenes to life. A good actor can do this, but it's a waste when he must. |
| The A.V. ClubNathan RabinPaint Your Wagon divided audiences and critics. With its central three-way marriage, debauchery, polygamy, Paddy Chayevsky script, and unconventional stars, it was too damn weird and adult for family audiences and too corny, old-fashioned, and bloated for the druggies and stoners. |
| Echo MagazineNeil CohenThis last gasp MGM musical still features enough curiousity to make it worthwhile. |
| EmpireIan NathanMind you, Eastwood went on the star with an orang-utan, twice, so this is only his third maddest film. Although, it could be his dullest. Which was one thing no one would of expected of this madcap enterprise, born of a what-the-heck attitude from its macho stars — that it would struggle so hard to be fun. |
| User ReviewDan MJust watched it again for the first time in ages. i forgot just how much i love it. funny, well acted, brilliantly written. just superb. |