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Released
1969 · FILM

Paint Your Wagon

A Michigan farmer teams up with a rugged prospector to stake a claim and turn a rough Gold Rush camp into a thriving town, but their ambitions spark violent rivalries, moral compromises, and chaotic mayhem that threaten everything they’ve built.

“Stake Your Claim To The Musical Goldmine of '69!”

Directed by
Joshua Logan
Written by
Alan Jay Lerner, Paddy Chayefsky
Runtime
164 min
ComedyMusicalWestern
Streaming on
  • Prime Video

Synopsis

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.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 18

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Robert C JonesShot by William A FrakerDesigned by John Truscott

Box Office

1969 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.6× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$31.7M

Budget$20.0M
Worldwide gross$31.7M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Westwärts zieht der Windde
  • La leyenda de la ciudad sin nombrees
  • La Kermesse de l'Ouestfr
  • La ballata della città senza nomeit

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