Magnificent Seven Art Print
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One of the greatest of the greats, The Magnificent Seven, is on AMC today (3:15PM | 2:15C ). Check your listings for the time in your area.
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Did you know that The Magnificent Seven was inspired by Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa’s The Seven Samurai (1954)? Is that fascinating or what? The Magnificent Seven were, of course: Yul Brynner, Charles Bronson, Steve McQueen, Horst Buchholz, Robert Vaughn, James Coburn, and Brad Dexter. What a line-up. The amazing thing is, the film was cast very quickly to beat an actor’s strike.
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Did You Know? (Courtesy of IMDB)
Mexican censors required the peasants to wear clean clothes.
Yul Brynner was married on the set. The celebration used many set props.
James Coburn (Britt) and Robert Vaughn (Lee) were close friends for almost 50 years but this is their only film together.
Yul Brynner made sure he always appeared taller than Steve McQueen in the film. He even made a little mound of dirt and stood on it for their shots together! McQueen casually kicked at the mound every time he passed by it.
According to Eli Wallach’s autobiography, Yul Brynner had a major problem with what he considered to be Steve McQueen trying to upstage him. According to Wallach, McQueen would do things when on screen with Brynner to draw attention to his character. Examples: Shaking the shotgun shells, taking off his hat to check the sun during the hearse scene, and leaning off his horse to dip his hat in the river when the Seven cross into Mexico.
Brynner was supposedly so worried about McQueen stealing his thunder that he hired an assistant to count the number of times McQueen touched his own hat when he (Brynner) was speaking!
Priceless. I’m going to watch for that next time I watch the movie.
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By the way, AMC’s website has a completely cool tool. You can search through the guide of movies and shows for the month, find the ones you want to watch, and sign up for e-mail reminders. They, then, will let you know when the show you want to see is coming up. If you’re like me, you’re tired of great movies passing by – this way, they’ll never get past us again!
I love that a lot of today’s fashion features throwbacks to the golden age of Hollywood’s glamour and mystique. Click HERE to read about a business that makes gorgeous silk hankies. You won’t believe how lovely these little beauties are!
By the way – this has absolutely, totally NOTHING to do with fashion or glamour, but did you catch High Plains Drifter last night? Clint Eastwood’s a big, big favorite of mine, and this movie’s one of his best. Something about the characters, the scenes…everything, I just love it. I only watched a little of it, though, because my beloved St. Louis Cardinals were playing, and God knows they need all the support they can get this year!
One of John Wayne’s best movies, “The Cowboys” is on TCM tonight. Check your local listings for the time in your area – I believe it comes on at 10:00 Eastern.
The Cowboys co-starred Roscoe Lee Browne, Robert Carradine, Bruce Dern, Colleen Dewhurst, Alfred Barker Jr., Nicolas Beauvy, A. Martinez, Norman Howell, and Stephen R. Hudis.
After his cattle drivers abandon him to search for gold, rancher Wil Andersen (John Wayne) is forced to take on a lively group of young boys as his drivers in order to get his herd to market in time to avoid financial damnation. The boys learn what it means to work like a man, and Wil feels more useful than ever, but none of them realize that a gang of cattle thieves is stalking them.
They leave as schoolboys and return as cowboys.
John Wayne with Rifle on Shoulder
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“Knock. Knock.” – One word pulling double-duty, but it was one of the best moments and lines in all of motion picture history. No actor on the planet could have delivered it quite the way John Wayne did!
John Wayne Wearing Chaps
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Everybody loves John Wayne! He had such an original way of delivering his lines – and so many of them were classics. Below are a few:
“Well, there are some things a man just can’t run away from.” – Ringo Kid (Stagecoach)
“All battles are fought by scared men who’d rather be some place else.” – Capt. Rockwell Torrey (In Harm’s Way)
“This kind of war, you’ve gotta believe in what you’re fighting for.” – Colonel Madden (Back)
“Out here a man settles his own problems.” – Tom Doniphon (The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance)
“Every time you turn around expect to see me. ‘Cause one time you’ll turn around and I’ll be there, and I’ll kill you, Matt.” – Tom Dunson (Red River)
“Republic. I like the sound of the word.” – Col. David Crockett (The Alamo)
“Out here, due process is a bullet.” – Col. Michael Kirby (The Green Berets)
“Sorry don’t get it done, Dude.” – John T. Chance (Rio Bravo)
“A lot of guys make mistakes, I guess, but every one we make, a whole stack of chips goes with it. We make a mistake, and some guy don’t walk away – forevermore, he don’t walk away.” – Sergeant John M. Stryker (Sands of Iwo Jima)
“I won’t be wronged, I won’t be insulted, and I won’t be laid a hand on. I don’t do these things to other people and I expect the same from them.” – John Bernard Books (The Shootist)
