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Seven little nightmares 23/10/2024 ![]() The seven ride out for a pre-emptive raid on Calvera's camp but find it abandoned. Even some of the seven waver, but Chris insists that they stay. Some villagers fear reprisals and call for the gunfighters to leave. However, Chico infiltrates Calvera's camp and learns that Calvera will return, as they are short on food. The villagers celebrate, believing Calvera will not return. The seven and the villagers kill eleven gang members and run the rest out of town. Some days later Calvera and his bandits arrive in force. Three of Calvera's men are dispatched to reconnoiter the village due to a mistake by Chico, the seven are forced to kill all three. When Bernardo points out that the gunmen are being given the choice food, they share it with the village children. The gunmen begin to bond with the villagers, and Petra pursues Chico. They note the lack of women in the village until Chico stumbles upon Petra and discovers the women were hidden in fear that the gunmen would rape them. ![]() Impressed by his persistence, Chris allows him into the group.Īrriving at the village, they work with the villagers to build fortifications and train them in combat. On their way to the village, they are trailed by the hotheaded Chico, an aspiring gunfighter whose previous attempts to join Chris had been spurned. They include Vin Tanner, a gunfighter gone broke from gambling Chris' friend Harry Luck, who assumes Chris is hiding a much bigger reward for the work the Irish Mexican Bernardo O'Reilly, who has fallen on hard times Britt, an expert in both knife and gun who joins purely for the challenge involved and the dapper, on-the-run gunman Lee, plagued by nightmares of fallen enemies and so haunted that he has lost his nerve for battle. Chris advises that they instead hire gunfighters to defend the village, as "men are cheaper than guns." At first agreeing only to help them recruit, Chris eventually leads the group.ĭespite the meager pay, Chris finds five willing gunmen. In a town just inside the United States, the villagers find Chris, a veteran Cajun gunslinger, and approach him. ![]() They send three villagers carrying their few objects of value to try and barter for weapons. After the latest raid, during which Calvera kills a villager, the village leaders decide to fight back. Plot Ī gang of bandits led by Calvera periodically raids a poor Mexican village for food and supplies. In 2013, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". Elmer Bernstein's film score was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Score and is listed on the American Film Institute's list of the top 25 American film scores. It spawned three sequels, a television series that aired from 1998 to 2000, and a 2016 film remake. It was both a critical and commercial success and has been appraised as one of the greatest films of the Western genre. The film was released by United Artists on October 12, 1960. The seven title characters are hired to protect a small village in Mexico from a group of marauding bandits led by Wallach. The ensemble cast includes Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, Robert Vaughn, Brad Dexter, James Coburn, and Horst Buchholz as a group of seven gunfighters and Eli Wallach as their main antagonist. The screenplay, credited to William Roberts, is a remake – in an Old West-style – of Akira Kurosawa's 1954 Japanese film Seven Samurai (itself initially released in the United States as The Magnificent Seven). The Magnificent Seven is a 1960 American Western film directed by John Sturges.
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