MAGNIFICENT SEVEN COLLECTION
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The Magnificent Seven Academy Award® Winner*
Yul Brynner stars in the turning point horse opera which launched the movie careers of Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson and James Coburn. Tired of being scorched by robbery bandits, a small Mexican encampment seeks assistance from 7 American gunfighters. Set opposite Elmer Bernstein’s Oscar® Nominated** score, executive John Sturges’ stirring journey belongs in any Blu-ray collection.
*1956: Actor, The King and I **1960
Return of the Magnificent Seven
Yul Brynner rides tall in the saddle in this marvellous supplement to The Magnificent Seven! Brynner rounds up the many doubtful septet of gunfighters—Warren Oates, Claude Akins and Robert Fuller between them—to poke for their fellow citizen who has been taken warrant by a rope of desperados.
Guns of the Magnificent Seven
This fast-moving horse opera stars Oscar® Winner* George Kennedy as the revered—and feared—gunslinger Chris Adams! When a Mexican insubordinate is captured, his associates sinecure Adams to mangle him out of jail to revive goal to the people. After recruiting 6 experts in guns, knives, ropes and explosives, Adams leads his rope of mercenaries on an journey which will array them opposite their many challenging rivalry yet! *1967: Supporting Actor, Cool Hand Luke
The Magnificent Seven Ride!
This rousing end to the mythological Magnificent Seven array stars Lee Van Cleef as Chris Adams. Now tied together and operative for the law, Adams’ staid hold up is incited inverted when his mother is killed. Tracking the gunmen, he finds a plundered limit locale whose widowed women have been underneath conflict by cruel marauders. Outraged and outnumbered, he resurrects the Seven to take on the killers in this final, romantic battle!Amazon.com necessary video
Akira Kurosawa’s rousing Seven Samurai was a healthy for an American remake–after all, the codes and conventions of really old Japan and the Wild West (at slightest the fabulous movie West) have been not so really far apart. Thus The Magnificent Seven facilely turns samurai in to cowboys (the same pretence worked some-more than once: Kurosawa’s Yojimbo became Sergio Leone’s A Fistful of Dollars). The beleaguered denizens of a Mexican village, sap of attacks by banditos, sinecure 7 gunslingers to repel the invaders once and for all. The gunmen have been cool and capable, with many of the actors personification them only on the fork of ’60s stardom: Steve McQueen, James Coburn, Charles Bronson, Robert Vaughn. The male who brings these warriors together is Yul Brynner, the baddest bald male in the West. There’s zero generally in vogue about the proceed of maestro executive John Sturges (The Great Escape), but the storytelling is transparent and strong, and the glamour of the immature guns sincerely flies off the screen. If which isn’t sufficient to incite the 12-year-old child inside anyone, the memorable Elmer Bernstein song will do it: bum-bum-ba-bum, bum-ba-bum-ba-bum…. Followed by 3 defective sequels, Return of the Seven, Guns of the Magnificent Seven, and The Magnificent Seven Ride! –Robert Horton
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This movie is awful. Even the tremendous star power cannot save this horrendous script. Cheesy scene follows cheesy scene. Watch the cheese as Yul Bryner counts to seven as he rounds up his men. Stare in disbelief as the bad guys stupidly and inexplicably let the 7 go after capture, only to have the 7 come back to save the day, of course.Fans of classic John Wayne movies (e.g., ‘The Searchers’, ‘Red River’) and Sergio Leone’s epic westerns (Leone’s ‘Fistful of Dollars’ also based on a Kurosawa film) will probably be terribly disappointed. This movie will appeal to lovers of feel-good duds like Armageddon and Independence Day.
Rating: 1 / 5
I’m a truly Western fan. I have seen all of the sequels to the Magnificent Seven. And, I’ve got to tell you this is about the best all-star Western movies I’ve seen. When I saw THE SEVEN SAMURAI, I had’nt encounterd a remake of the classic Japanese film about Seven Samurai who save a village from bandits. The American version done it just. Look like, they would continue the series since it was called “THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN” Instead of making The Magnificent Seven, Return Of The Seven, Guns Of The Magnificent Seven and The Magnificent Seven Ride! why didn’t they finish the sequels by adding three more sequels to finish the series. Yul Brynner if he didn’t want to play Chris, I’m sure there were several other actors that would love to play Chris. Return Of The Seven was awsome too! But I didn’t like it that Chris recruited Manuel, a chicken thief to fill out number six. If I was Chris I would have recruited that bully who was fighting Manuel, at least he knew a little something about a gun. I hated it that he got killed in it. For Guns of the Magnificent Seven, the cast were great but the characters were new. I don’t think that Max was a real recruit. Again, I wouldn’t have picked him. I would try to go and find someone else if I could. Finally, The Magnificent Seven Ride! was a good action-Western to watch as well. The five convicts and a dude writer ride south of the border to help a town filled with women. Again the characters are new, now Chris is acting Marshal and is married. He quits and wants revenge for a thief who turned killer and rapist againist Chris’s wife. The new characters are: Pepe, Walt, Noah, Hayes, Skinner, Elliot they are pretty good. Again I wish they had finished the series with three more sequels to live up the title’s name.
Rating: 5 / 5
Forget this dog and anything else done by Sturges. They all look like pool patio party night at Rock Hudson’s all-male mansion.
The original Seven Samaurai is so far and away superior to this all-male revue, which as in all Sturges’s film features his unknown beefcake of the week, here a German kid forced to grimace and grunt as the Hollywood stereotype Mexican gunfighter, here poorly stealing the role of the young want-to-be young Samurai in the original. Sturges failed to make the very real and human message of the orignial part of his plastic production. Both do or do not get the girl in the end, but in which one do you care?
A great tragedy occured when Anthony Quinn who originally had the idea to make Seven Samurai into a Western did not get the backing in time to do somethnig decent with it. Instead we have this absolutely ridiculous and racist dog, in which Jewish Brooklyn’s best Eli Wallch is forced to sweat and grunt and grimace as if a stereotypical Mexican bandit. Sergio Leone used him to much greater effect later. Same actor; better job.
Don’t waste your time and money on nothnig but a magnificent soundtrack. Get the original Seven Samurai. Way better, and you will be spared the embarrassment which is this Sturges mess. For a further example, compare Bronson’s woodcutting warrior scene stolen from the original with Kurasawa’s scene, and tell me which tells far more of a story. Even cheat by leaving on the commentator. Which one seems more real, and more funny?
And once again it wasn’t Bronson’s fault that Sturges is an idiot. Look at what Sergio Leone did with Bronson, telling his whole life’s story with a stare in Once Upon a Time in the West, a far more interesting western than any of Sturge’s all-male fantasies.
Get the Kurasawa original Seven Samurai and you will never stop replaying it and always learn something new each time. The running commentary by some American guy isn’t all that obnoxious after all. Then get Throne of Blood and you will never see Technicolor again.
But skip Sturges at all costs.
Rating: 1 / 5
1,000 Duke Wayne epics wrapped into one, this movie’s unending and overwhelming popularity should be no surprise to anyone. I figure, with tongue only partially in cheek, it must subconsciously represent the American historical view of himself: Heroically riding with both guns blazing to the rescue of poor, repressed and freedom-loving people. How else could anyone overlook, on top of all the cliches in this movie, one of the silliest, dumbest sequences in the history of movie-making: The scene where Bruce (oops, James)Coburn draws from his belt, then drives his trusty knife into the fence post as he collapses, shot dead. I realize that this review isn’t going to be popular, but forgive me, I’ve been wanting to vent my spleen since it was released. What’s worse, this dumb, adolescent piece of Hollywood Americana keeps popping up on the movie channel of my tv.
Rating: 1 / 5
This movie was made in the days before film-makers realized that people were sophisticated enough to recognize corn when they saw it. Horz Bucholz’s impetuous kid act was just total corn. Talk about bad acting. Robert Vaughn deliberately affects some kind of bizarre weakling voice quality.
The whole premise of the movie was that the villagers were wothless cowards but Bronson goes off his head proclaiming how brave they are because they’re dirt scratching farmers. The 40 banditos ride into the village and the hired guns(the seven) expose themselves in positions where they could easily be shot by less than half of 40 banditos.
The banditos get the drop on the seven when the seven return to the village and the ultimate in movie absurdity happens. The banditos let the seven go on their merry way AND give them their guns back. Any self respecting Mexican bandito would have slit their throats, but not in this fantasy universe. This is truly one of the worst westerns I’ve ever seen. I just don’t understand why this movie has gotten the hype that it has. Probably simply because it had Yul Brynner and Steve McQueen in it.
Rating: 1 / 5