Based on Akira Kurosawa ’’The Seven Samurai’’ the ’’Magnificent Seven’’ a Mirish production and released through United Artists and Director by Oscar nominated John Sturges is one of the best American Westerns ever made.
It stars Yul Brenner and Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, James Coburn and Robert Vaughn as a couple of hired gunslingers asked to help a couple of Mexican farmers get their village back from the control of an evil and bloodthirsty bandit named Calvera. (Eli Wallach).
The movie is just brilliant. It starts of, telling us the story of how the village is terrorized by this evil bandit, and from their it just the great exploits of the 7 gunslingers who are brought together to fight for the justice of the Mexican people.
Yul Brenner, and Steve McQueen play Chris and Vin, a couple of honorable but tough gunmen who don’t take any crap from anyone.
Their first intro in the movie is great. They are riding their horse carriage through
a western town full of goons that want to kill them.
As they ride across this town, they from all angles kill the bad guys who try to get them from windows, horses and other places.
Eventually their great exploits become the talk of these Mexican farmers.
The Mexican farmers tell their tale of the bandits who are destroying their village and leaving their families hungry. So Chris goes on his quest to gather more skilled gunslingers to get these bandits.
This other great gunslingers consists of Charles Bronson and Robert Vaughn.
as Bernado and Lee. James Coburn as Britt the knive slinger is also a great character in this movie.
What I love about this movie, besides the great musical score by Elmer Bernstein is that their is a story about all the gunslingers. They all come from different backgrounds and have their own skills to bring
to the table come game time.
’’It’s only a matter of handling a gun, it’s no big deal’’ -This great line by Chris (Yul Brenner) shows the cool and modest demeanor that the good hearted gunslingers have.
Their is a Special Edition DVD of this classic and the DVD is one of the best DVD’s ever made.
It includes a special documentary on the film with rare interviews with Steve McQueen, Eli Wallach and Yul Brenner.
It also goes into detail about the making of the film and how many movie studios did not want to release it. In fact at one it didn’t look like the movie would be made, however, Yul Brenner at one point had the rights for the movie, so the movie would be made.
The DVD comes with 2 special trailers of the movie which show it’s brilliance.
This 1960 masterpiece is one of the best American movies made and one of the best westerns made.
Sergio Leone is most popular for directing Westerns like ’’The Good , The Bad and Ugly’’ and ’’For a Few Dollars’’ so if your into great action and music, check this terrific movies out too.
The movie is also realistic throughout the whole ordeal several of the gunslingers will die as will the bandits, in the end though you know the good guys will win and move until they are needed again. Eli Wallach shows us glimpses of his ’’The Good, The Bad and Ugly’’ character Tuco in this movie. Yul Brenner and the rest also give Academy Award winning performances and John Sturges cements himself as one of the greatest directors in film.