Paint Your Wagon

1969 164 min Comedy, Western, Music

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.

budget $20,000,000 earnings $31,678,778 return 1.6x

director Joshua Logan

writer Alan Jay Lerner