| ''Paint Your Wagon'' is a strange case. The plot of the 1969 movie, starring Lee Marvin and Clint Eastwood, seems to bear little resemblance to the 1951 Broadway musical. In the stage version, Ben Rumson, a crusty old miner, has a 16-year-old daughter, Jennifer, who falls in love with a Mexican prospector named Julio. in the film version, adapted by Paddy Chayefsky, Ben and a younger miner, Pardner, fight over the affections of Elizabeth, a wife that Ben has bought from a Mormon. Lerner & Loewe's original songs, like ''Wand'rin Star,'' ''I Talk to the Trees,'' ''I Still See Elisa,'' etc., are in the movie but often in a different context, and other tunes have been dropped in favor of new ones by Lerner and Andre Previn. |
