So I watched a movie, again
I never rode shotgun on a stage before.
Yes, it's The Magnificent Seven, which of course is derived from Seven Samurai, but with Yul Brynner and Steve McQueen, and music by Elmer Bernstein.
Sturges and his writers use a twist on the original at the beginning of the movie. When the villagers come into the American town to try and hire the gunmen they need, they encounter a dispute between the local undertaker, a couple of traveling salesmen, and the townsfolk, who are unwilling to see a dead Indian buried in their Boot Hill graveyard--the town's become civilized, the undertaker says, and people don't want to see an Indian buried among white men, derelicts and low-lifes though they were. They've threatened to shoot anyone who drives the hearse up to Boot Hill. So a gunman named Chris Adams offers to drive the hearse, and a drifter who's new in town, Vin, borrows the stagecoach shot gun, and gets up beside him. They drive to the graveyard, and the burial proceeds.
The villagers don't have nearly enough money to buy guns for themselves or to hire the gunmen they need. It's a hopeless case. But they know Chris Adams is their man. He drove the hearse, after all.
Yes, it's The Magnificent Seven, which of course is derived from Seven Samurai, but with Yul Brynner and Steve McQueen, and music by Elmer Bernstein.
Sturges and his writers use a twist on the original at the beginning of the movie. When the villagers come into the American town to try and hire the gunmen they need, they encounter a dispute between the local undertaker, a couple of traveling salesmen, and the townsfolk, who are unwilling to see a dead Indian buried in their Boot Hill graveyard--the town's become civilized, the undertaker says, and people don't want to see an Indian buried among white men, derelicts and low-lifes though they were. They've threatened to shoot anyone who drives the hearse up to Boot Hill. So a gunman named Chris Adams offers to drive the hearse, and a drifter who's new in town, Vin, borrows the stagecoach shot gun, and gets up beside him. They drive to the graveyard, and the burial proceeds.
The villagers don't have nearly enough money to buy guns for themselves or to hire the gunmen they need. It's a hopeless case. But they know Chris Adams is their man. He drove the hearse, after all.