Stars:
James Coburn,
Faye Dunaway,
Donald Pleasence,
Charles Bronson,
Yul Brynner,
Steve McQueen,
Robert Vaughn,
Richard Attenborough
Director:
Norman Jewison
Summary: Includes the Steve McQueen films THE GREAT ESCAPE, THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR, and THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN.
Includes the Steve McQueen films THE GREAT ESCAPE, THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR, and THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN. THE GREAT ESCAPE is a dramatisation of the true story of a group of British, American, and Canadian POWs who executed a massive escape from Stalag Luft III in Upper Silesia in March 1944. In THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR, a business tycoon looks for an intellectual challenge. He plans a bank robbery and begins a duel of wits with an insurance investigator. In THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN, a small farming Mexican village that makes involuntary donations of its harvest to a gang of bandits led by Calvera decides to hire a group of professional gunmen, headed by gunslinger-for-hire Chris, to protect them. Despite the meager pay, Chris and Vin sign on after the Mexicans see them face down some racist thugs. Chris begins to pick up other gunmen, including Bernardo , Lee, Britt, Harry, and aspiring gunslinger Chico, as they ride back to the village. The Mexicans, who are at first ambivalent about having gunmen hanging around their town, finally let down their guard and allow their visitors to teach them how to shoot and how to best reconfigure the town to defend against Calvera. When the bandits return, they find harvesting the crops a little more challenging.