The death ride of the glorious 7

Movie
German title	The death ride of the glorious 7
Original title	The Magnificent Seven Ride!
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	1972
length	100 (German version 97) minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
Rod
Director	George McCowan
script	Arthur Rowe
production	William Calihan
music	Elmer Bernstein
camera	Fred J. Koenekamp
cut	Walter Thompson
occupation
Lee Van Cleef : US Marshal Chris Adams Stefanie Powers : Laurie Gunn Michael Callan : Noah Forbes Mariette Hartley : Arrila Luke Askew : Mark Skinner Pedro Armendáriz junior : Pepe Carral Ralph Waite : Jim Mackay Melissa Murphy : Madge Buchanan William Lucking : Walt Drummond James Sikking : Andy Hayes Ed Lauter : Scott Elliot Allyn Ann McLerie : Mrs. Donovan Gary Busey : Hank Allen Robert Jaffe : Bob Allen Darrell Larson : Shelley Ron Stein : Juan de Toro
chronology
←  Predecessor The Revenge of the Magnificent Seven

The Death Ride of the Magnificent Seven (original title: The Magnificent Seven Ride! ) Is the third and last sequel to the successful western The Magnificent Seven from 1960 , filmed in 1972. The German-language premiere took place on November 17, 1972.

action

The US Marshal Chris Adams, newlywed and recently questioned about his life by the journalist Noah Forbes, rejects a request from his old friend Jim Mackay to help a Mexican village against a bandit horde. When Adams 'wife Arrila is kidnapped and he himself is wounded, he, with Forbes' company, sets out to track down the perpetrators, whose leaders he had just saved from prison. This, Shelley, joins the bandits around Juan de Toro after the murder of Arrila, who rule the said village. Adams takes five inmates and old acquaintances from the State Prison, with the help of whom he can defeat de Toro and his gang. However, four of those who were put in jail and brought out by Adams die. Adams remains living in the distressed place and marries one of the distressed widows, Laurie Gunn.

criticism

The Western lexicon of Joe Hembus not evaluated the film bad and stated that he was more amusing than the first and more exciting than the second sequel to the original film, "Yul Brynner's special form of grandeur to his successor Lee Van Cleef goes off completely what the film is good for ". The critic of the lexicon of international films saw him less well : "Staging passable, but psychologically implausible Western, which once again warms up the motif of the magnificent seven."

Roger Greenspun wrote in The New York Times that the film would have turned out well if it had been staged "with a feeling and a sure hand for ritual behavior, which is what it deserves." However, he is "careless in details and only trivial in plot, theme and character drawing."

Remarks

As the only one of the four films in the series, this was shot entirely in the United States.

Web links

• The death ride of glorious 7 in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Joe Hembus: The Western Lexicon. Extended new edition, edited by Benjamin Hembus. Heyne, Munich 1995. p. 649
2. ↑ The Death Ride of the Magnificent 7 in the Lexicon of International Films
3. ^ Film review by Roger Greenspun on August 3, 1972