Clint Eastwood Once Starred in a Western Musical
If you've heard of 1969's "musical Western" Paint Your Wagon, there's a decent chance you only know it from The Simpsons. In Season 9, Homer rents Paint Your Wagon for family movie night, hoping for a blood-and-guts western, as the picture stars Lee Marvin and Clint Eastwood, both known as men of violence. The Simpsonized version opens in media res, during what seems to be a tense showdown at high noon.
In order to modernize the story, they brought in Paddy Chayefsky, who would go on to write Network and become a legend, but was then in a career lull between his first and second Oscars. After a brainstorming session with Lerner, Chayefsky, and director Joshua Logan, Chayefsky rewrote the script, keeping very little from the original besides the setting.
The Production of 'Paint Your Wagon' Was A Slow-Motion Disaster Joshua Logan had been a theater director before he directed movies. In 1967, he adapted Lerner's Camelot, which was widely criticized for looking too much like a filmed play. Lerner did not want to make that mistake again. Camelot had been filmed on sound stages. Lerner brought Logan back for another collaboration, but he insisted that Paint Your Wagon be filmed on location. It would turn out to be an expensive decision.
After Rumson and Pardner's claim peters out, they have no income. But they can't leave town, because their marriage would not be tolerated anywhere else. Rumson's plan is to build a system of tunnels beneath every saloon in town, to collect the gold dust that drips through the floorboards. This system of mines was actually constructed, and all of No-Name City's sets were rigged to collapse into the tunnels: a fate meant to recall what befell Sodom and Gomorrah.
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