Paint Your Wagon (1969)

Ben Rumson: Is they dead? They better be cause I'm fixin' to bury em'!

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Ben Rumson: Grace, I give you the boy. Give me back the man.

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Elizabeth: I lived with a man who had two wives. Why can't a woman have two husbands?

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This film version bears little resemblance to the Broadway musical on which it is ostensibly based. After the success of several musical films in the 1960s, most notably The Sound of Music, producers went looking for other projects to make, and "Paint Your Wagon" made the list. The original plot, about an inter-ethnic love story, was discarded as being too dated. The only elements retained from the original were the title, Gold Rush setting and about half of the songs. In the play, Elizabeth has a very minor role, Pardner does not even appear, and Ben Rumson dies at the end.
In the DVD version the 4'20'' intermission is kept in the film.
Lee Marvin had to be made to look older in the movie, since at 44 he was only six years older than Clint Eastwood.
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