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The War Wagon was met with generally positive reviews from critics and holds a 90% "Fresh" score on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 10 reviews. [12] [13] Roger Ebert gave the film three out of four stars, calling it "that comparative rarity, a Western filmed with quiet good humor. It is also a point of departure for John Wayne, who plays a bad guy ...
An episode of the TV series M*A*S*H is called “They Call the Wind Korea” (S7, E8 - originally aired 10/30/78). Robin the Frog twice breaks into the song on The Muppet Show (S2, E12 - originally aired 11/4/77) Two-time Tony Award winner John Cullum sings the song in character at a karaoke bar during the ER episode "Be Still My Heart".
Paint Your Wagon is a 1969 American Western [5] musical film starring Lee Marvin, Clint Eastwood, and Jean Seberg. The film was adapted by Paddy Chayefsky from the 1951 musical Paint Your Wagon by Lerner and Loewe. It is set in a mining camp in Gold Rush-era California. It was directed by Joshua Logan.
The film is based on the 1975 country and western novelty song "Convoy" by C. W. McCall. The film was made when the CB radio / trucking craze was at its peak in the United States, and followed the similarly themed films Moonfire (1970), Duel (1971), Deadhead Miles (1973), Hijack (1973), White Line Fever (1975), Smokey and the Bandit (1977), La ...
The film grossed $5.4 million at the US box office, among the top ten films in box office receipts for 1965, a year in which Mary Poppins topped the list with $28.5 million. [3] The movie was not particularly successful at the French box office, failing to reach more than one million admissions. [4] [dead link ]
Popular songs from the show included "Wand'rin' Star", "I Talk to the Trees", and "They Call the Wind Maria". The musical ran on Broadway in 1951 and in the West End in 1953. In 1969, the film version, also titled Paint Your Wagon, was released. It had a highly revised plot and some new songs composed by Lerner and André Previn.
Riding High is a 1950 American black-and-white musical racetrack film featuring Bing Crosby and directed by Frank Capra. The songs were performed live during filming instead of the customary lip-synching to studio recordings. The film is a remake of an earlier Capra film with screenwriter Robert Riskin titled Broadway Bill (1934). While the ...
The character Taw Jackson (John Wayne) mentions the War Wagon's guards: "Each carries a Henry rifle..with 60 rounds of ammunition". Yet, they carry 1894 or 1892 Winchesters. Henrys were pretty much dated by 1873 – the movie appears to be in the 1880s or 1890s.