Cinema: Yul Team

Return of the Seven has plenty of action, nearly all of it generated by seven men working their jaws. Their conversation takes place in a Mexican village, where Yul Brynner and half a dozen unstable gun fighters fling up the barricades and begin intensive sessions of group therapy. At least it sounds that way. According to the plot, they are supposed to be fighting off a horde of bandits to protect 300 ignorant farmers who are being herded across the desert as slave labor to rebuild the local padre's church.

Between attacks, Yul and his boys talk a lot about killin'. Some...

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