The Magnificent Seven Ride!

"A Brand New Seven -- Doing Their Number! They put their lives on the line and let it ride!"

1972 1h 40m EN

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5.7

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★5.7TMDB · 110

WesternActionDrama

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Marshal Chris Adams turns down a friend's request to help stop the depredations of a gang of Mexican bandits. When his wife is killed by bank robbers and his friend is killed capturing the last thief, Chris feels obligated to take up his friend's cause and recruits a writer and five prisoners to destroy the desperadoes.

“A Brand New Seven -- Doing Their Number! They put their lives on the line and let it ride!”

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Cast

Lee Van Cleef
Marshal Chris Adams
Stefanie Powers
Mrs. Laurie Gunn
Michael Callan
Noah Forbes
Mariette Hartley
Arilla Adams
Luke Askew
Mark Skinner
Pedro Armendáriz Jr.
Pepe Carral
Ralph Waite
Jim Mackay
Melissa Murphy
Madge Buchanan

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: George McCowan
Writers: Arthur Rowe
Languages: English, Spanish
Countries: United States of America

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MONEY

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Shot for just $3.0M — micro-budget by Hollywood standards.

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MONEY

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Earned back only 99% of its budget on initial theatrical — a commercial disappointment on release.

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3 / 8

ERA

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54 years old — a genuine piece of film history.

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4 / 8

WORLD

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Dialogue crosses 2 languages: English, Spanish.

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5 / 8

CINEMA

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Part of the "The Magnificent Seven Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by George McCowan, shot by Fred J. Koenekamp. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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7 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Original score by Elmer Bernstein. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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8 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Walter Thompson shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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The take

George McCowan directs. Fred J. Koenekamp behind the camera. Elmer Bernstein scores. Walter Thompson cuts. A commercial under-performer on release. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English, Spanish.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

1Shot for just $3.0M — micro-budget by Hollywood standards.
2Earned back only 99% of its budget on initial theatrical — a commercial disappointment on release.
354 years old — a genuine piece of film history.
4Dialogue crosses 2 languages: English, Spanish.
5Part of the "The Magnificent Seven Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
6Directed by George McCowan, shot by Fred J. Koenekamp. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
7Original score by Elmer Bernstein. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
8Editor Walter Thompson shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
9Lee Van Cleef and Stefanie Powers and Michael Callan carry the top of the cast.
10Marketing tagline: "A Brand New Seven -- Doing Their Number! They put their lives on the line and let it ride!".
11IMDB entry: tt0068897 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
12Classified under 13 themes, including "husband wife relationship", "dynamite", "usa–mexico border", "trap".
13Released under 34 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Cinematography: Fred J. Koenekamp
Original score: Elmer Bernstein
Editing: Walter Thompson
Costume design: Eddie Armand
Makeup / hair: Leonard Engelman
Sound: Robert L. Hoyt
Runtime: 100 min · 1h 40m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $3,000,000
Box office: $2,979,000
Return: 99% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): PG
IMDB: The Magnificent Seven Ride! (1972)

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The adventures of the Magnificent Seven.

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Filipe Manuel Neto2023-03-01
★ 3/10
The end of a franchise that should never have existed. It is often said that there is no love like the first, and really “Magnificent Seven” was an excellent film, which deserves to be remembered and that is part of the great Western films, for me. The film had several sequels, as we know, but none of them were necessary, and the truth is that it would have been better if they had never been made. This film was the third and final sequel to “Magnificent Seven”. Again, we witness an absolute renewal of the cast, in a radical break with everything that was done previously: here we already see Chris (always the same character, despite the rotation of actors) aged, as sheriff, about to get married. A local bank robbery, followed by the kidnapping of his fiancée, will force the retired gunfighter back into action. He fails, however, to save the bride, who has been raped and killed by thieves. The plot continues, there are a few more deaths that motivate Chris to hunt for his target, which associate rapes with homicides. The only good thing about this film is the plot: the script ultimately presents a different story than the one that was done in the first film, and repeatedly chewed up in the immediate sequels. We can even dispute the quality and detail of the script, but I think it's much fresher and more acceptable material. Even so, it is in the details that the problems lie: and there are many points where the plot really feels bad, far-fetched and forced. Lee Van Cleef is a good actor, and it wasn't difficult for him to take the lead here. However, it does not seem to me that the film allows him to shine. I haven't seen much of the actor's work, but it's hard for him to make Brynner's performance in the same character forget. For the rest, he is the only actor who deserves a minimally positive mention. The rest of the cast is overwhelmingly average. Filmed entirely in the USA, the film is the typical Western, where everything ends in a hail of bullets, looking for the massive action to effectively replace the weaknesses of the script and the rest of the material. Obviously, it doesn't work. The film has clearly fake sets and, on more than one occasion, I felt that the costumes are excessively anachronistic and even uncharacteristic or difficult to accept in a period production. Besides, there isn't much quality here, so it's not a film that I feel capable of recommending to anyone.
CinemaSerf2023-05-28
★ 6/10
Lee Van Cleef takes on the famous Yul Brynner role as "Chris" - this time a US Marshal who is drafted in to recruit a team to protect a small agrarian township from the marauding "De Toro" (Ron Stein). The casting is oddly unconvincing. Stefanie Powers just doesn't cut it at all as love interest "Laurie", nor does Mickey Callan as "Noah" (he should just have stuck to fighting over-sized chickens and Herbert Lom) and, unfortunately, I just cannot take Ralph Waite seriously even though this was made before we became accustomed to his performances with his wholesome "Paw Walton" characterisation. It is stodgily directed, drearily written and is an exceptionally slow burn for an action film, and though it does pick up slightly for the last fifteen minutes or so it is not really much of a worthy successor and I found that it was a film that I am sure I must have seen before, but remember not at all.