25 Westerns To See Before You Die
With Sergio Leone's Once Upon A Time In The West back in cinemas this week, we rundown the western dramas you must watch before the coroner records you as "deceased"
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'They were seven. And they fought like seven hundred!'
The Magnificent Seven (1960)
The leading man's a Mongolian. The young hearthrob's German. And the Mexican bandit's a Jewish stage actor. With all these things against it, John Sturges's posse picture ought to be awful. But as sometimes happens, here the awkward elements (Yul Brynner, Horst Buchholz and Eli Wallach respectively) gel together superbly. Okay, so its source The Seven Samurai might have more class and power, but Akira Kurosawa's epic doesn't have as catchy a theme tune. Nor Steve McQueen intoning "We deal in lead, friend," for that matter.
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