It was only a matter of time before a Hollywood company westernized the great Japanese film Seven Samurai. An instant classic when it made its debut in 1954, Akira Kurosawa’s masterwork came to America in late 1956, largely seen in […]

Featuring a great cast and perhaps the greatest western movie score ever written (by Elmer Bernstein), The Magnificent Seven is a genuine American classic (based, of course, on the Japanese classic Seven Samurai). Like other films that attained classic status, […]

It took six years for the Mirisch Company to formulate and produce a sequel to its original hit. During those six years the original film gradually found an audience, partly because its younger stars, as well as Yul Brynner, found […]

The third entry in this — unusual — western series is, essentially, a remake of the first one. Nine years after the original, three years after the second adventure, the Mirisch Company tried again. Set in Mexico again (but shot […]

The fourth and final film in the original Mirisch Company series takes a very different slant to the familiar formula. Three years after his last south-of-the-border adventure, Chris Adams is faced with another one — but this time he turns […]

So it turns out that even though Seven is the keynote number to each film, the key number to this series is one, one being Chris Adams. He is the only character to appear in more than two films, and […]