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Director: John Sturges
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From Time Out Film Guide
Sturges' remake of Kurosawa's Seven Samurai is always worth a look, mainly for the performances of McQueen, Bronson, Coburn and Vaughn. The theme of the group of professionals coming together to defend a cause or undertake a useless task, mainly as an exercise for their narcissistic talents, was one that would be constantly reworked during the '60s. Numerous set pieces, like Coburn's knife fight, Vaughn's fly-catching and McQueen's jokes, stay lodged in the mind.Author: CPe
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- shimke said...
- Posted on May 16 2009 03:04 Great film, the impression it leaves you with is more like that of an epic or opera than of a Western. Yul Brynner is remarkable.
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Cast & crew
Director: John Sturges
Producer: John Sturges
Cast: Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, Charles Bronson, Horst Buchholz, James Coburn, Eli Wallach, Brad Dexter, Vladimir Sokoloff, Whit Bissell full cast
Genre(s): Westerns
Duration: 138 mins
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