The Magnificent Seven

This Wednesday night at 7:15 PM, The Kentucky Theater in downtown Lexington will be showing one of the greatest Westerns of all time..."The Magnificent Seven.” I highly recommend you see this film on the big screen because they certainly don’t make them like this anymore.

The movie, a remake Akira Kurosawa’s masterpiece “Seven Samurai” (I’ll get to that one in a future blog entry), tells the story of a Mexican village besieged by the bandit, Calvera (Eli Wallach) and his gang. The villagers decide to stand up to Calvera and his men with the help of some hired guns. However, because they are poor they cannot afford much. Nevertheless, they visit the nearest town to see if they can find any help. What they find is the gunfighter Chris (Yul Brynner) who, with the help of the cool headed rifleman, Vin (Steve McQueen) is able to assemble a team of skilled and honorable men. James Coburn, Charles Bronson, Robert Vaughn, Brad Dexter and Horst Bucholz round out the remaining seven gunfighters. The movie was directed by John Sturges who would go on to direct “The Great Escape.”

It is the mother of all American “guys-on-a-mission” movies. (the TRUE mother of all “guys-on-a-mission” movies is “Seven Samurai”) This is your chance to see Charles Lang’s sweeping cinematography and to hear Elmer Bernstein’s classic score all up on the silver screen.

Tickets are only $3.00 each. 


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