Aug 16th  
Paint Your Wagon*   
(US 1969)                            
Paramont/Malpaso. 149m. Super Panavision 70

A drunken California gold prospector shares both his fortune and his Mormon wife with the young man who has inadvertently led him to the gold spring.
Unnecessarily expansive film adaptation of a more modest musical stage success, from the boom or bust era of the genre, mostly miscast with stars (although Marvin's rendition of "Wanderin' Star" became a surprise chart hit), and the two leads have endearing chemistry.

Written by: Paddy Chayefsky, Alan Jay Lerner, based on the stage musical by himself and Frederick Loewe.
Producer: Alan Jay Lerner.
Director: Joshua Logan.
Starring: Lee Marvin, Clint Eastwood, Jean Seberg, Harve Presnell, Ray Walston, John Mitchum, Tom Ligon.
Photography: William A. Fraker.
Music/Songs: Frederick Loewe, Alan Jay Lerner, Andre Previn.
Production Design: John Truscott.

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Film
(US 1965. 20m. bw; A dying old man in the city hides himself away from people and animals and even his younger memories. Practically soundless 20 minute experimental film, much more indicative of its author than of Buster Keaton.; w: Samuel Beckett; d: Alan Schneider; s: Buster Keaton.)