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| Director: Joshua Logan |
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Alan Jay Lerner, Paddy Chayefsky |
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Alan Jay Lerner, Tom Shaw |
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Lee Marvin, Clint Eastwood, Jean Seberg, Harve Presnell, Ray Walston |
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| Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 |
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(NTSC Widescreen) |
| Studio: Paramount |
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DVD Region: 1 |
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PG-13 |
| DVD Release: Jul 2001 |
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Discs: 1 (DVD) [$9.98] |
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| Reviews: This film and "Hello Dolly" were the knockout blows to the studio movie musical, but "Paint" doesn't deserve its tarnished name. Ben Rumson (Lee Marvin) takes the model of a rakish derelict to an unequaled high as a prospector who teams up with a greenhorn named Pardner (Clint Eastwood), and they both end up marrying the same scorned woman (Jean Seberg). No-Name City, the prospecting town they found, is Sodom and Gomorrah without the camels, and a vision of humanity left to its own devices. The songs are mostly wonderful melodies from Lerner and Loewe, with definite high points, notably "They Call the Wind Maria" and "Wand'rin' Star." Clint Eastwood always gets flack for his versions of "I Still See Elisa" and "I Talk to the Trees," but that scorn is equally undeserved. Perhaps "Paint"'s biggest sin, in retrospect, was trying to combine the aesthetics of the musical with the aesthetics of the male protagonists' world-weary machismo. Not the easiest task, but "Paint" pulls it off. "--Keith Simanton" |
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