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I saw this movie, first run, in 1960, in one of my neighborhood theaters...a theater that had an uncanny taste in good movies! And to this day, I'm still spellbound by the fantastic music, the casting, especially of Yul Brynner as the head honcho, and the overall dramatic effect of this landmark film.
"The Magnificent Seven" started out as a remake of "The Seven Samurai" by Akira Kurasawa, a fact just about everybody who's ever Googled IMDB or read a film history article knows by heart. What you might not have known is that Yul Brynner owned the rights to make it into a western! Brynner, in fact, was slated to direct, at one point, but they got John Sturges instead. Anthony Quinn was originally slated to play Chris, Brynner's character. I really couldn't imagine this movie without Brynner playing Chris, and I thank the gods of fate manipulation that it didn't happen that way.
You all know the story, right? Chris rides around the border area searching for gunfighters to help him protect a Mexican village from a menacing group of bandits, led by Eli Wallach (Calveras), and meets up with Steve McQueen as Vin, James Coburn as Britt, Robert Vaughn as Lee, Charles Bronson as O'Reilly, Horst Bucholz as Rico and Brad Dexter as Harry. All these guys are good, with the possible exception of Robert Vaughn, who, it turns out, is the only surviving "hero" from the movie. His character, apparently, was shell-shocked from earlier gunfights, and is fighting demons of cowardice and inadequacy. There was always a character like this in just about every "important" drama of this era and the performances were almost always over the top, and thank Gawd Vaughn's is kept to a minimum. His presence in anything made after "The Man From U.N.C.L.E" was canceled was almost always a sure sign that the movie was a bomb. The man looks like John Derek designed by Al Hirschfeld...
Horst Bucholz, who made an international career out of playing Holden Caulfields, does his hotheaded young guy thing here in his inimtable style. Though German, Bucholz only once portrayed a German in any movies of his released here! In "One Hour To Rama", a movie about Gandhi's assassin, he plays a Hindu, sick and tired of British rule. In this film, he plays a young hispanic fellow who wants to join the gaggle of older men to fight the banditos. This he does, while making a fool out of himself when drunk but acquitting himself when he's sober and the chips are down. He's also the one who makes any kind of time with the young ladies of the village.
Steve McQueen does his laconic thing, with baleful stares and not much dialogue, and some of the most pointed finger counting you've ever seen as he is Brynner's first, helping to recruit the other fighters. Coburn, who, back then was often mixed up with McQueen by audiences because of their striking visual similarities, plays the knife-wielding expert, who's just as fast with a gun, named Britt. He gets almost NO lines in the film, but one of the most quoted scenes from the film, where Bucholz's Rico is amazed at a shot he made, shooting a bandito off a horse, is one that everybody remembers. As with Flint, he modestly tells Rico that he was aiming "for the horse".
Bronson's O'Reilly becomes a favorite of three village boys, as he is the one who teaches the village men how to shoot rifles. And then there's Brynner's Chris. As Chris, Brynner gets all the good lines in the movie...all the philosophical lines, all the good comedic lines, which McQueen or Wallach often set up for him, and nobody has the walk he has...not John Wayne, not Jim Arness, not Alan Ladd, not anybody....
If you remember there being a lot more of the score in this movie when you saw it in the theater, you're not alone. I found myself wanting to hear the main refrain played as often as possible and cursed the fact that the movie wasn't shot in glorious stereo, as this score was made for it!
One of the things that made this movie so great is the easy camaraderie between the gunslingers as they band together to help the lowly villagers. They exchange sly jokes and the stories of their lives, (or whatever they want to reveal of them,) and if more of them had survived, they would have probably become lifelong friends, but in the end, only two remained...and watching them ride off into the sunset beats Brandon De Wilde calling out to Shane any day of the week!
A true classic.
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MariaReviewed in Mexico on May 15, 2024
Todo un clásico por fin restaurado en formato UHD 4K!
Soy fan de los clásicos de la historia del cine, y cuando supe que Shout Factory había restaurado "The Magnificent Seven" en formato 4K Ultra HD, la compré de inmediato.MariaTodo un clásico por fin restaurado en formato UHD 4K!
Reviewed in Mexico on May 15, 2024
Se ve espectacular, mejor que nunca, con una calidad de imagen fuera de serie. Llegó rápido y en perfectas condiciones, lo mejor es que si traía el Slipcover de colección, el único inconveniente de esta edicion 4K Ultra HD es que no trae Doblaje ni subtitulos en español, solo en inglés.
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