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Paint Your Wagon
Part of the SCHINKEN special series
SCHINKEN Fall 2025
Based on the 1951 Broadway musical of the same name, PAINT YOUR WAGON offers an unusual blend of western, musical numbers, and romantic chaos in the midst of the American gold rush. In his film, director Joshua Logan interweaves motifs from classic Westerns with the lightness and exaggeration of musicals—a rare, almost contradictory genre experiment that puts the conventions of both genres to the test.
At the center is a love triangle between the gruff gold miner Ben Rumson (Lee Marvin), his cultured partner Pardner (Clint Eastwood), and the equally independent and pragmatic Elizabeth (Jean Seberg). Their unconventional cohabitation breaks with the moral concepts of the frontier era as well as with the genre's common love clichés. Set in a male-dominated mining town, the film tells a story of community and questions patriarchal possessiveness and the concept of jealousy—but also freedom, conformity, and change.