A most interesting item about the production "Paint Your Wagon", narrated by the producer (Alan Jay Lerner), the director (Joshua Logan) and two of the film's stars (Lee Marvin & Jean Seberg). The credits state that Clint Eastwood is also one of the narrators - but he isn't, so this could well be a shortened version of the original.
As the title implies a good section of the film deals with the colossal task of building the set for the mining town "No Name City". There is a natural tendency to take the sets we see in feature films for granted and it is good to be reminded occasionally of just how much work and money is required to create them.
Apart from this there are, of course, all the familiar behind the camera scenes of the stars rehearsing and going through takes with a fair selection of clips and music from the finished product.
The musical numbers including "There's A Coach Coming In", "Wandering Star" and "They Call The Wind Maria".
The print quality is quite good, but the clips from the feature do have rather an unusual 'duped' look. All in all a good collectors item that should go down well in any programme.
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