Watched the tail end of Guns of the Magnificent Seven then The Magnificent Seven Ride! I don't know how these qualify as sequels since most of the magnificent sevens are killed in each movie.
All the movies are about North Americans intervening in Mexican civil conflicts. They could have reversed things and made one of them about seven Mexicans intervening for some Anglo farmers battling the Cattlemen's Association.
They all have 1970's hair styles. That bothered me even back in the 1970's. The cast of M*A*S*H* for example had hair styles unheard of in the '50's. Robert Altman didn't like the TV series M*A*S*H* because it got the public used to the idea of never-ending war. If they had had less stylish hairdos, it would have given it a greater feeling of it being in a different time.
Yul Brynner starred in the original film. Lee Van Cleef played his role (not the same character, just served the same purpose in the plot) in this movie. A few years earler, Brynner had taken over Van Cleef's role in a sequel to Sabata.
Brynner was born in Soviet East Asia. His grandmother was Mongolian. They should have gotten a Soviet or other Asian actor to star in this one. Maybe a Norwegian. Remember when Omar Sharif co-starred in the western McKenna's Gold?
They were protecting a town full of women, so it had that going for it.
It's sad that they traumatized a lot of horses for a movie that wasn't very good.
With Stephanie Powers, Mariette Hartley, Pedro Armendariz, Jr, Ralph Waite, Gary Busey, James Sikking, William Lucking, Ed Lauter.
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