directed by John Sturges
USA 1960
A bandit (Eli Wallach) terrorizes a small Mexican farming village each year. Several of the village elders send three of the farmers into the United States to search for gunmen to defend them. They end up with 7 (Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson etc.), each of whom comes for a different reason. They must prepare the town to repulse an army of over 100 bandits who will arrive seeking food. An oft recognized Americanization of the Japanese Kurosawa film Seven Samurai.
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Theatrical Release: October 23rd, 1960
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Comments on the new SE by Gary Tooze Firstly, I don't own the original SE edition of this film that came out in May 2001 so I can't compare the images but it wouldn't surprise me if this was only marginally superior although this is advertised as a 'High-Definition' transfer. I don't find this edition particularly remarkable - it has limitations on the horizontal resolution (not tight) with black bars down the two edges and the image tends to look a bit dirty in spots. Colors though are quite good but possibly a shade washed from the original theatrical showing. It has acceptable detail and some minor fluctuating contrast. The big come-on to this package are certainly the extras with two decent commentary tracks and an entire second disc of featurettes. I appreciate that the original mono track was provided (its all I listened to) and it was adequate although I'm sure many will opt for the 5.1 bump. The package itself is quite handsome with some care that is usually devoid in other MGM releases. I'm a big fan of westerns but don't rank this quite as high as others do - still it is a great tale with a studded cast - Sturges can direct a solid western and this is better than most. He uses the frame very well and, of course, the theme music is a standard. Comments by Henrik Sylow The first difference is that the new Collector's Edition have a higher resolution, making details more even in pixels. Native is 960px of Special Edition and 1024 of Collector's Edition. But I would argue, that the new transfer is softer and thus lacks a certain sharpness in detail, which the older Special Edition has. The second difference is framing. The new Collector's Edition is cropped 4px@800px left and 3px@800px right, and has 1px@347px more image top and bottom than the Special Edition, which causes the Aspect Ration variation from 2.31:1 to the new 2.27:1. The third and final difference is in compression. The new Collector's Edition does not have the same degree of artifacts as the old Special Edition, which most likely is because of having moved the 47 minute making-of documentary to Disc 2, but also a newer transfer. However, the additional materials make up for the minor issues with the image. An additional audio commentary by Film Historian Sir Christopher Frayling and additional featurettes on the film and the score make the new Collector's Edition a must-have DVD. - |
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Recommended Reading for Western Genre Fans (CLICK COVERS or TITLES for more information)
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The Crowded Prairie: American National Identity in
the Hollywood Western (Cinema and Society) by Michael Coyne |
The Invention of the Western Film : A Cultural
History of the Genre's First Half Century (Genres in American Cinema S.) by Scott Simmon |
The Searchers (Bfi Film Classics) by Edward Buscombe |
The Western Genre by John Saunders |
Westerns: Films through History (AFI
Film Readers) by Janet Walker |
The Encyclopedia of Westerns (The Facts on File
Film Reference Library) by Herb Fagen, Tom Selleck |
Gunfighter Nation: The Myth of the Frontier in
Twentieth-Century America by Richard Slotkin |
The Western (Inside Film) by David Lusted |
Red River (Bfi Film Classics) by Suzanne Liandrat-Guigues |
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