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Paint Your Wagon
Comedy, Music, Western
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.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who enjoy eccentric frontier comedy with exuberant musical numbers, broad social satire, and an unusually loose communal spirit.
- Tone
- playful, campy, whimsical
- Payoff
- amusement, wonder
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- moderate
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- partnership, unconventional relationships, communal life, greed, frontier individualism
- Setting
- nineteenth-century gold-rush era, rugged mining camp and frontier settlements
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