A gold prospector buys a wife from a Mormon and agrees to share her with his mining partner when she insists they all live together.
Mindful that her presence in an all-male town might give rise to jealousy, he hijacks a stagecoach carrying six working girls and opens a brothel in town.
Alan Jay Lerner invented a new “adult” plot, quite unnecessarily, for this screen version of his own Broadway show, in which Lee Marvin and Clint Eastwood share Jean Seberg in a ménage à trois.
Joshua Logan directs with the heaviest of hands, and only Harve Presnell as Rotten Luck Willie emerges with credit, but then he does have all the best songs, although it was Marvin who topped the UK charts with Wandrin’ Star.
Clint uses his own singing voice charmingly, too, and there’s some of the finest chorale work (directed by Roger Wagner) ever heard in a film musical.
Ben Rumson
Lee Marvin Pardner
Clint Eastwood Elizabeth
Jean Seberg Rotten Luck Willie
Harve Presnell Mad Jack Duncan
Ray Walston Horton Fenty
Tom Ligon Parson
Alan Dexter Horace Tabor
William O’Connell Haywood Holbrook
Ben Baker Mr Fenty
Alan Baxter Mrs Fenty
Paula Trueman Atwell
Robert Easton Foster
Geoffrey Norman Steve Bull
H B Haggerty Joe Mooney
Terry Jenkins Schermerhorn
Karl Bruck Jacob Woodling
John Mitchum Sarah Woodling
Sue Casey Higgins
Harvey Parry Wong
HW Gim Hennessey
Roy Jenson Indian
Eddie Little Sky Clendennon
Pat Hawley Frock-coated man
William Mims
Director
Joshua Logan
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Alan Jay Lerner invented a new “adult” plot, quite unnecessarily, for this screen version of his own Broadway show, in which Lee Marvin and Clint Eastwood share Jean Seberg in a ménage à trois.
