Part 1 of of 3: RETURN OF THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN (1966)

Posted on May 15th, 2018 by Adam-Troy Castro

Originally published on Facebook 15 May 2016. So today we hied our way to Best Buy to see how to spend a gift card burning a hole in our pockets, and among multiple acquisitions was the Blu-Ray boxed set of THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN and its sequels. Let me say this. THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN is an […]

Tags: Eli Wallach, Movies, Seven Samurai, Steve McQueen, The Magnificent Seven, Westerns, Yul Brynner

GUNS OF THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN (1969)

Posted on May 20th, 2016 by Adam-Troy Castro

Tonight’s film from the MAGNIFICENT SEVEN COLLECTION, of which I’ve said before it is likely best to consider to consider all the films but the first DVD extras in support of the splendid John Sturges original, was GUNS OF THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN (1969), which wisely makes no attempt to torture all possible plausibility by again […]

Tags: Bad Movies, Charles Bronson, George Kennedy, James Coburn, James Whitmore, Seven Samurai, The Magnificent Seven, The Three Amigos, Westerns, Yul Brynner

Samurai, Gunfighters, Starships, Insects, and Amigos

Posted on March 26th, 2012 by Adam-Troy Castro

  First Commentary by Adam-Troy Castro {The} Seven Samurai (1954). Directed by Akira Kurosawa. Screenplay by Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto, Hideo Oguni. Starring Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura. Various Cuts from 160 minutes to 207 minutes exist. **** The Magnificent Seven (1960). Directed by John Sturges. Screenplay by William Roberts, Walter Newman, and Walter Bernstien (latter […]

Tags: Action, Akira Kurosawa, Battle Beyond The Stars, Brad Dexter, Chevy Chase, Eli Wallach, George Peppard, James Coburn, John Landis, John Sturges, Kevin Spacey, Martin Short, Richard Thomas, Robert Vaughn, Samurai, Science Fiction, Seven Samurai, Steve McQueen, Streve Martin, Sybil Danning, Takashi Shimura, The Magnificent Seven, Toshiro Mifune, Yul Brynner