History Film / PaintYourWagon

* AmbiguousDisorder: Ben has some sort of psychological issue (he says he sometimes gets "melancholy"), most likely bipolar disorder.

* FireIsMasculine: The movie has a song called "They Call the Wind Maria", the lyrics of which gives names to the rain, fire and wind. The wind is named Maria, the rain is named Jack and fire is named Joe, one of the most common male names to ever exist.

* WanderlustSong: "Wandering Star" in the graveltastic voice of Lee Marvin. "Elisa" and "They Call the Wind Maria" is a good counterpart to this, dealing with the loneliness of a wandering life.

This somewhat obscure 1969 movie musical was based on the [[Theatre/PaintYourWagon Broadway musical of the same name]] by Creator/LernerAndLoewe (the authors of ''Theatre/{{Brigadoon}}'' and later ''Theatre/MyFairLady''), with which it shares a number of characters and songs but not much plot. It was the last film to be directed by Joshua Logan, and the only film produced by Alan Jay Lerner, who wrote the screenplay that discarded the musical's storyline in favor of a new story by Creator/PaddyChayefsky.

This somewhat obscure 1969 movie musical was based on the [[Theatre/PaintYourWagon Broadway musical of the same name]] by Creator/LernerAndLoewe (the authors of ''Theatre/{{Brigadoon}}'' and later ''Theatre/MyFairLady''), with which it shares a number of characters and songs but not much plot. It was the last film to be directed by Joshua Logan and was adapted for the screen by Creator/PaddyChayefsky.

* EverythingsBetterWithCows: The golden calf and the bull.

The population of No Name City is initially all-male, and the said men get horny. They are thus delighted when a Mormon with two wives rides into town one day. They convince him to sell one of them, Elizabeth (Creator/JeanSeberg), to the highest bidder. Ben, in a drunken stupor, wins the bid.

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[[caption-width-right:300:Does this DVD cover, by chance, remind anyone of that film ''Film/HeavensGate''?]]

* SoiledCityOnAHill: No Name City

* WelcomeToHell, Parson. No Name City, Population: drunk. (Even noted on the welcome sign: "The Hell-thiest Spot in the West".)
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: We never learn about the dark backstory implied by the scene of Elizabeth nursing the baby, proof that she's the baby's real mother. Did she perform a "handmaid" role by bearing a child to be claimed by the senior wife? Or did their Mormon husband simply lie about the baby's parentage to get rid of Elizabeth, the less favored wife? Alternatively did she also have a baby that died leaving her as wet nurse for the senior wife's baby?
** The movie explicitly states that her own baby died a short time back. It's most likely she was still milking when the other baby was born and became a second source of milk for it.

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This somewhat obscure 1969 movie musical was based on the [[Theatre/PaintYourWagon Broadway musical of the same name]] by Lerner and Loewe (the authors of ''Theatre/{{Brigadoon}}'' and later ''Theatre/MyFairLady''), with which it shares a number of characters and songs but not much plot. It was the last film to be directed by Joshua Logan and was adapted for the screen by Creator/PaddyChayefsky.

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This somewhat obscure 1969 movie musical was based on the [[Theatre/PaintYourWagon Broadway musical of the same name]] by Lerner and Loewe (the authors of ''Theatre/{{Brigadoon}}'' and later ''Theatre/MyFairLady''), with which it shares a number of characters and songs but not much plot. It was the last film to be directed by Joshua Logan, and was adapted for the screen by Creator/PaddyChayefsky.

The story takes place during the California Gold Rush. When a wagon crashes into a ravine, {{prospector}} Ben Rumson (Lee Marvin) rescues the surviving occupant (Clint Eastwood). The two form a partnership, and Ben dubs the survivor "Pardner". By the riverside where the wagon crashed, gold is discovered, and a boom town called "No Name City" promptly crops up.

The population of No Name City is initially all male, and the said men get horny. They are thus delighted when a Mormon with two wives rides into town one day. They convince him to sell one of them, Elizabeth (Jean Seberg), to the highest bidder. Ben, in a drunken stupor, wins the bid.

* DeadpanSnarker: The town's resident sign-painter, clearly. No-Name City moves from "Population: Male" when the town has no women to "Population: Drunk" when both women and whisky appear in sufficient abundance.

* DeadpanSnarker: The town's resident sign-painter, clearly. No-Name City moves from "Population: Male" when the town has no women to "Population: Drunk" when both women and whisky appear.

* DeliberateValuesDissonance: The film manages (with hilarious results) to contrast the looser or outright upended morals of a remote, sex-starved frontier settlement where the only law in operation is the "Mining Law" of recognized claims, and the strait-laced, puritanical morality of "respectable", Christian 19th century society... ''both'' of which contrast with the norms of more "modern" audiences, who are pretty much expected to roll with it. To the men of No Name, it seems perfectly reasonable to shrug their shoulders and, say, let a passing Mormon with two wives (not practiced by mainstream Mormonism today) auction off his "spare" wife to the highest bidder... and yet with their still-patriarchal values the idea of the same woman taking on another husband weirds them out ''even more''.