Paint Your Wagon (DVD)

One of my all time favourite musicals, this is long, almost epic, but flies by so quickly that as soon as it finishes, you’ll want to watch it again – and again – and again. Set in California during the Gold Rush, it’s a story of the birth of a town – No Name City – and the lives of the people in it, particularly Ben Rumson, the grizzled veteran miner, Pardner – his partner, unsurprisingly – and Elizabeth, the wife who Ben buys, but who falls in love with both Ben and Pardner. As this love story plays out, No Name City grows around them, despite the warnings of a preacher that the loose morals of the entire town are ...  Read the complete review