On the way up to ‘the Hill’, a sniper takes a shot at the two, narrowly missing McQueen, but hitting the cigar that Brynner is smoking.
THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN 1960 MOVIE
One of the best scenes in the movie comes near the beginning when McQueen and Brynner volunteer to drive a funeral hearse containing the body of an old Indian up to Boot Hill against the wishes of most of the town’s citizens (who wish the cemetery to remain segregated from non-whites). There ‘s no Richard Burton or Sir Laurence Olivier type performance in this movie, (but then again I don’t think that either one of them could shoot a gun or ride a horse.) But there doesn’t have to be this type of acting-– there’s a lot of action, a universally understood storyline and in various scenes, some great dialogue. Unless you consider Eli Wallach, who plays the Mexican Calvera, there is no great acting in the movie. The movie tells the story of what happens when these town fathers finally say “Enough!” In the Americanized version, directed by John Sturges, the plot involves the leaders of a village in the Mexican hill country who hire seven gunslingers to defend their town from the ruthless outlaw, Calvera, and his gang of rapists, looters and pillagers who have been plaguing their settlement for a long period of time.
Origins And Plot Image Source: Google ImagesĪlthough this is a western, The Magnificent Seven, truth be told, is a re-make (or at least a re-write) of the Japanese movie, the Seven Samurai. In addition to Brynner, McQueen, and Wallach, the list of stars receiving lesser billing included Charles Bronson, James Coburn, Brad Dexter, Horst Buckholtz, as well as Robert Vaughn (who later played The Man form U.N.C.L.E. There haven’t been very many Hollywood westerns made since 1970 and even fewer still that you could call great. I saw it for the first time at Philadelphia’s Strand just after its nationwide release and have seen it about fifty times since.
(Sorry for the pun.) It was produced at the “beginning of the end” of the era of great western movies. You could even say that it is “reel” old. Before Cable), it is easily categorized as an old movie. This is not a “chick flick” by any means, but is truly great fun. First, a bit of business: The Magnificent Seven starring Broadway actor Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, and Eli Wallach is in the Western genre and won an Oscar in 1961 for Best Musical Score for Elmer Bernstein.
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