Paint Your Wagon (1969), and Dexter Fletcher on The Elephant Man and more

Film Stories with Simon Brew

Simon Brew

Film History, Tv & Film

4.9 • 813 Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2026

⏱️ 78 minutes

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One of the more bizarre projects to come out of a Hollywood studio in the late 1960s, Paint Your Wagon felt like a turning point movie. Lee Marvin and Clint Eastwood - and they're both singing? How did that happen? Turns out it's quite a story. Then, ahead of an appearance at the BFI to talk about his work in David Lynch's The Elephant Man, Dexter Fletcher joins Simon for a chat about it. That, and a bit of Alan Rickman, and inviting Christopher Walken over for dinner... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:07.8	We're getting right into it this episode. We've got a Western with guns
1:13.0	and violence and Clint Eastwood and Lee Marvin and...
1:17.7	They're singing! They're singing, Marge? Why aren't they killing each other?
1:22.5	Yeah, their guns are right there. Wait, wait, wait. Here comes Lee Marvin. Thank God.
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