Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 100 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
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.
- husband wife relationship
- dynamite
- usa–mexico border
- trap
- sequel
- church
- bank robbery
- posse
- misogyny
- wagon
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
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
- William Lucking — Walt Drummond
- James B. Sikking — Captain Andy Hayes
- Ed Lauter — Scott Elliot
- Allyn Ann McLerie — Mrs. Donavan
- Gary Busey — Hank Allan
- Robert Jaffe — Bob Allen
- Darrell Larson — Shelly
- Directed
- George McCowan
- Written
- Arthur Rowe
Production
- Rating
- 5.7 / 10 · 108 ratings
- Studio
- The Mirisch Company, United Artists
The Collection
The complete story, in order.
1960The Magnificent Seven
Where it starts.
The Magnificent Seven Ride!
1972 · You’re here
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
