Episode
Paint Your Wagon (1969), and Dexter Fletcher on The Elephant Man and more
- Podcast
- Film Stories with Simon Brew
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- Jan 26, 2026
- Duration seconds
- 4719
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Summary
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