Hurrah for James Coburn! He has just graduated from a magnificent life, lived with absolute panache. "The Magnificent Seven" may well be the greatest western of all time, and part of that was due to his portrayal of Britt. The rest was due to equally splendid performances by Yul Brynner, Eli Wallach, and Steve McQueen. As someone said up there, nobody else moved with the catlike grace of Coburn and Brynner. Talk about class! Burt Lancaster had class like that too.

I love that scene where Calvera is dying, and he asks Brynner something like "Why did you come back here...to this stinking little village...a man like you...WHY?"

For honor, that's why. Any samurai would understand perfectly.

And the other scene where someone (McQueen? or Coburn?) makes an almost impossibly long pistol shot and shoots the escaping bandit off his horse...and Horst Bucholz says "That's the greatest shot I ever saw!" and the man (whoever) replies "The worst I ever saw...I was aiming for the horse!"

- LH