It was the most expensive film Hammer had made up until that time, but on release, it was a hit both in North America and in Europe.
The movie had an all-star cast, with Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, Horst Buchholz, Robert Vaughn, Brad Dexter and James Coburn as the seven gunmen, and Eli Wallach as the leader of the bandits.
This really is a beautiful image.
As older guys, we watched as one by one those mythic gunfighters, including Eli Wallach, who played the wily leader Calvera, of the 50 bandits, and who was actually Jewish from Brooklyn which is why he was so wily , died over the decades.