Eli Wallach stole that movie from Yul and the gang, and he was just getting warmed up for TG,TB & TU.
The Magnificent Seven is a good movie made better by excellent music - as we touched on recently Elmer Bernstein wrote a masterpiece and if you watch the movie you will see that he wove the main theme through as many scenes as he possibly could. He was truly brilliant at scoring a movie.
The movie itself - it drags in places, goes off on tangents, doesn't resolve various stories very well, has some plot holes you could drive a stagecoach through, and as I watched it recently I was not that impressed with it, overall.
Now I need to rewatch The Seven Samurai to see how Kurosawa told that same story.
Oh yeah, that movie "introduces" Horst Buchholz - and try as I might I can't remember him appearing in any other movies. What's up with that?
Well there you go - I like Wilder's work a lot, but I have never seen that one. I had cable tv for a while and really didn't miss a bit of it when it went away, with the exception of TCM - that show was great. I got a real education watching the movies they showed there, along with an explanation of each one.
Stalag 17, Irma la Douce, and obviously Some Like it Hot, ol' Billy was the man. My lament is that I will now have to search for One, Two, Three - that's too much like work!
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Eli Wallach stole that movie from Yul and the gang, and he was just getting warmed up for TG,TB & TU.
The Magnificent Seven is a good movie made better by excellent music - as we touched on recently Elmer Bernstein wrote a masterpiece and if you watch the movie you will see that he wove the main theme through as many scenes as he possibly could. He was truly brilliant at scoring a movie.
The movie itself - it drags in places, goes off on tangents, doesn't resolve various stories very well, has some plot holes you could drive a stagecoach through, and as I watched it recently I was not that impressed with it, overall.
Now I need to rewatch The Seven Samurai to see how Kurosawa told that same story.
Oh yeah, that movie "introduces" Horst Buchholz - and try as I might I can't remember him appearing in any other movies. What's up with that?
Horst was in One, Two, Three. One of Billy Wilder's funniest movies.
Well there you go - I like Wilder's work a lot, but I have never seen that one. I had cable tv for a while and really didn't miss a bit of it when it went away, with the exception of TCM - that show was great. I got a real education watching the movies they showed there, along with an explanation of each one.
Stalag 17, Irma la Douce, and obviously Some Like it Hot, ol' Billy was the man. My lament is that I will now have to search for One, Two, Three - that's too much like work!
Urban renewal was never a Mexican thing.
Sixty Grit said...
Eli Wallach stole that movie from Yul and the gang, and he was just getting warmed up for TG,TB & TU.
Robert Vaughn redeems his part in the ups and downs of a gunfighter scene.
Lee: Insults swallowed - none. Enemies - none.
Chris: No enemies?
Lee: Alive.
The Magnificent Seven is a good movie made better by excellent music - as we touched on recently Elmer Bernstein wrote a masterpiece
Actually, Bernstein wasn't all that proud of the score. He thought his work in The Comancheros and a couple of others was better.
Oh yeah, that movie "introduces" Horst Buchholz - and try as I might I can't remember him appearing in any other movies.
Try Nine Hours To Rama (did he ever play a Kraut?) about the assassination of Ghandi.
The music made the film, along with the cinematography.
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