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Movie Review: "The Magnificent Seven"

The immortal classic Western, The Magnificent Seven , was actually based on a Japanese classic made by Akira Kurosawa : Seven Samurai (which you can read more about from my previous review HERE ). This movie has so many awesome actors in it, it's basically an All-Star Team, nay, MAGNIFICENT Team of actors! Yul Brynner . Eli Wallach . Steve McQueen . Charles Bronson . Robert Vaughn . James Coburn .

Movie Review: "Seven Samurai"

Okay I finally watched Akira Kurosawa 's epic classic "Shichinin no samurai", or in English: " Seven Samurai ". I'm amazed that such an old movie (released in 1954) stands up pretty well to the test of time, and actually lives up to the hype! The cinematography is better that a lot of the swill that Hollywood churns out yearly...