The Magnificent Seven Ride!
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.The last in the original series of four "Magnificent Seven" movies.
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- Cast：
- Lee Van Cleef , Stefanie Powers , Michael Callan , Mariette Hartley , Luke Askew , Pedro Armendáriz Jr. , Ralph Waite
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the audience applauded
The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.
It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.
A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.
wow i am out of words here serious guys this film is the final & fourth entry in the series of the magnificent seven.i don't have to tell the story here because its not worth discussing about,this time the Mexicans are bad as always with weird cast,& no relation of plot whatsoever to the original previous films.in the first film TMS 1960 the Americans saved Mexicans but here it is personal vengeance involving Marshal Chris Adams & Bandits,put Clint Eastwood here & it would still be a mess its so dull from start to finish.the only great actor here was Lee Van Cleef just what was he doing in this film is beyond me.the director is George Mccowan who has anyone in the world heard about this man no he made bad Films just like chuck Jones ruined Tom & Jerry in the 1970s.this is the final installment in the series after this a TV series called the magnificent seven 1998-2000 came.anyway my rating for the magnificent seven ride 1972 is 1/10 do not watch it at any cost its a waste of time & money.Skipp it
The first thought I had about this silly movie was, "They must have been on a really tight budget" because nobody except the main characters ever say a word! I mean really, there's this bunch of about 10 women and none of them ever talk! When was the last time that ever happened? The pardoned criminals who make up this latest batch of not-so-magnificent avengers (and why doesn't Chris ever learn from his past and maybe try to recruit a few more than just six other guys to help him?) are told to take their pick of women to be their battle assistants and none of the ladies make a peep or say anything like, "Hey wait a minute!" or "Don't touch me you ugly brute!" or "What the heck kind of an idea is that?" They just stand there and quietly allow the men to grab them by the arm and lead them to the other side of the room.Try getting ten real women in one place at the same time and see if you can get them to be that quiet for that long. Fighting the whole Mexican army with just seven guys is a piece of cake in comparison.
I guess I should now comment upon a 4th flick in the MAGNIFICENT SEVEN franchise; the sequels still surprise or amaze me—by their sleaze and deliberate _absurdism. They constitute or forge a 4th way—not classic, not revisionist, not European—but a sleaze Americana, kindred to the violent vigilante '70s movies, absurd trash. This installment too is bombastic sleaze—inexplicably awkward and even somewhat strange.Now what I find disturbing that these sequels not only have their opportunist fans; but that the fans simply do not sense any difference between the original's style and the sequels'.These sequels are not boring or insipid—but bizarre. They are of course very badly written—messy scripts, rubbish lines. It's straight crazy; in this installment each gunman gets several women— Van Cleef's young wife begs him to release a young prisoner; he finally does. The young man resumes his life, shoots Van Cleef, kidnaps the wife, rapes and kills her—then joins a wrongdoer. Van Cleef, who has previously refused to help defending a village, now assembles a small bunch and charges the wrongdoer's hacienda; then the wrongdoers charge the village where Van Cleef has set.I liked the cast.Van Cleef is Chris; Stefanie Powers, pretty active in the '70s screwy westerns, is Van Cleef's darling. Callan, very antipathetic, is Noah, a writer and Chris' sidekick. The rest of the aggressive bunch are Askew (one of the only three survivors), Armendariz, Lucking, Lauter; Rita Rogers is truly hot, fleshy beauty.
This film is a cash in. A cash in reliant on a rousing theme tune created for an earlier classic. Yul Brynner has long since jumped ship and so have most of the production values. Lee Van Cleef takes over the lead role of Chris. I can't think of any actor who looks less like Brynner than Van Cleef. Hey, he could have at least shaved off his hair and lost the moustache, just for the sake of continuity. Some correctional centres show this movie in order to punish offenders. One step out of line and The Magnificent Seven Ride! is brought to the fore and wielded. They didn't even bother trying to make this movie not look like a TV movie! Abysmal.
