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Film: Double Feature
The Magnificent Seven and The Professionals

When

Sunday Aug 17, 2008 (5:40pm)

Where
New Beverly Cinema (7165 W Beverly Blvd, 323.938.4038)
Price
$7
Details
http://newbevcinema.com/calendar.cfm
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Our president may have given cowboys a bad name, but if you've still got a soft spot for tobacco-chewing gunslingers, unlikely heroes, and frontier justice, then the New Beverly has the double feature for you. First up is The Magnificent Seven — the John Sturges remake of Kurosawa's classic Seven Samurai — starring Yul Brynner, James Coburn, Eli Wallach, Steve McQueen, and Charles Bronson as a crew of mercenary bodyguards charged with defending a farming village from the bad guys. The dusty dueling continues with Richard Brooks' The Professionals, in which Burt Lancaster and Lee Marvin ruin the plans of a gang of unscrupulous Mexican kidnappers.

Shana Nys Dambrot