Last of the Seven

I got a chance to interview Robert Fuller at the Memphis Film Festival in 2009 and he said that Brynner and he hit it off as friends the first time that they meet on the set in Spain. Fuller said that the Mirisch Company built the entire village and pumped so much money into the local economy that the locals dedicated a monument to them. He told them that the scene where five of the seven had to stand on the buildings with their Winchesters aimed at the villains took something like three hours to shoot and that he had bad leg from a stunt fight on "Wagon Train." He also told me that there were several assistant directors around to give cues to the Seven when they rode out from different streets in the town and lined up for their departure. Interestingly enough, he said that director Burt Kennedy did not allow them to improvise on anything and that they had to follow the script to the letter. Although Larry Cohen receives sole credit for the screenplay, Fuller said that Kennedy penned half of the script. This is one sequel that doesn't get a lot of credit for being as good as it is.