Yul Brynner won Best Actor for The King and I, having played the role on Broadway more than four thousand times, and shaved his head for it and never grew it back.
The Magnificent Seven and Westworld gave him two very different kinds of gunfighter, the second being an android whose malfunction the film treats as inevitable. He invented several biographies for himself over the years, including Mongolian and gypsy ancestry, and recorded an anti-smoking message to be broadcast after his death from lung cancer.
Charles BronsonThe Magnificent Seven (1960) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Kurosawa's Seven Samurai relocated to the Mexican border, shortened by an hour, and improved in one specific way. Every gunman gets an introduction that is also an…
Blythe DannerFutureworld (1976) earns its 7 as a lean 1970s paranoid thriller. Cheesy, dated, and genuinely unsettling.
James BrolinWestworld is great and deserves considerably better than its current reputation as merely the prototype for the HBO series. Michael Crichton's original concept is tighter, scarier, and structurally cleaner than anything the television adaptation produced in its first two seasons.
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