The Magnificent Seven Page #5

- Yes?

You'd go away, wouldn't you?

If you'd paid the price

we make him pay.

Yes, I would, only...

Only what?

Only I'm not Calvera.

Take the rifles and the

bandoleras and pass 'em out.

Now, let's get out

there on duty.

Food, woman.

They'll be hungry.

That was... that

was the greatest...

New hat for you, sonny.

Hey!

How do I look?

Big improvement.

You know what? They'll make up

a song about you and this hat.

Villages like this make up a song about every big thing.

They sing them for years.

Do you think it's worth it?

Don't you?

It's only a matter of

knowing how to shoot a gun.

Nothing big about that.

Hey... how can

you talk like this?

Your gun has got you everything you have.

Isn't that true?

Mm?

Well, isn't that true?

Yeah, sure. Everything.

After a while you can call

bartenders by their first name.

Maybe 200 of 'em.

Rented rooms you live in: 500. Meals

you eat in hash houses: 1,000.

Home:
none. Wife: none. Kids:

None.

Prospects:
zero.

Suppose I left anything out?

Yeah.

Places you are

tied down to:
none.

People with

a hold on you:
none.

Men you step aside for: none.

Insults swallowed:

None.

Enemies:
none.

No enemies?

Alive.

Well! This is the kind

of arithmetic I like!

Yeah, so did I at your age.

Give these to someone who

knows how to use them.

Yeah.

Why don't you ask Calvera what

he has in mind for tonight?

Yes, do that. And I'll write

a song for you myself.

Andrs, Lorenzo and

Felipe never came back.

That's three.

Armando in the plaza.

That's four.

And Jorge and Memo in the pass,

where they were caught

by that cursed net.

Damn them!

Five and six.

Emilio going over the wall.

Seven.

Jos near the fountain.

Eight.

Gregorio near the fountain.

That's nine.

Nine.

Fortuno by the water ditch.

Rico in the fields, where

they slashed him to pieces!

That's... 10 and 11.

Go on.

Talk.

Talk! Talk!

They're all dead anyway.

Forget about them.

There's still plenty of us here...

to make them pay.

Our friends down below.

Please, no!

It's all right.

You're all right.

You had a dream.

Just a bad dream.

Have no fear.

"Have no fear"?

My very words.

Seor, don't punish yourself.

A man who has fought so many times...

You must have great courage.

Until the day

you lose your nerve.

You feel it.

And then you wait...

for the bullet in the gun

that is faster than yours.

Seor, don't.

And the lies you tell,

to fool yourself.

No enemies:

Alive.

I have lost count

of my enemies.

But you're with friends now.

Yes.

The final, supreme idiocy:

Comin' here to hide.

The deserter... hidin' out in

the middle of a battlefield.

One.

There was a time when I

woulda caught all three.

We know what fear is.

We live with it all our lives.

Only the dead are without fear.

Rico!

Rico!

One minute, Mother!

Ten minutes to pretend we're asleep,

and then we'll be back on duty.

All right, Bernardo?

Yes, but not you, Juan.

You're too young. Come on.

Bernardo O'Reilly!

You've been adopted.

Yeah, it's my real name.

Mexican on one side, Irish on the

other, and me in the middle.

Now, watch carefully.

Here we go.

See? All three, right side up.

Think you can do it?

Of course. That's very easy.

Would you... care to make a friendly wager?

A little bet?

You know we have no money.

It doesn't have to be money.

Whatever you have hidden away, buried

out where Calvera can't find it.

- Like jewels.

- Jewels?!

Yeah. They tell me a lotta precious stones

have been dug out of the mountains.

Opals, emeralds... sapphires.

Oh, yes. Yes, that's very true.

There's no denyin' it.

Well, then!

No! When you're finished, they

should all be right side up.

Let me try it again, eh?

About those precious stones...

Where are they found?

As you say, seor,

in the mountains.

Where in the mountains?

That I couldn't tell you.

There! I got it!

Never mind that.

Why can't you tell me?

Because I never have found

any precious stones.

Wait. You mean Aztec treasure buried in

the hills, from when the Spaniards came?

That's exactly what I mean. Aztec treasure.

Have you found some?

Would to God we had!

I would not be sitting here.

I'd be living in a big

city, in a palace.

Then tell me this...how come

Calvera keeps hangin' around here?

Calvera... We've seen the end of him.

He'll be gone in the morning.

No, he will not.

He won't go anywhere.

Why do you say that?

Calvera isn't worried

about food for winter.

He's worried about the food his men

haven't eaten for the last three days.

The price of corn is going up.

They're starving.

How do you know?

Starving and broke.

How do you know?!

Oh...

I've been up there.

Well, we'd better

be ready for them.

Because they gotta die or win.

Vlgame Dios if they do win.

They won't win.

Are you God, that you

can say for sure?

We're surrounded. Outnumbered.

What are we to do?

Keep on fighting.

Do you want to see us

killed off one by one?

That is not what

you were hired for.

Once you start,

there's no stopping.

You understood that,

and I told him!

I don't care.

Go away. All of you. Get

on your horses and go.

Let Calvera have the food.

Give him what he wants.

At least we'll be alive.

Quiet! And listen to me!

No! It is easy

for them to say fight.

They have no sons,

no daughters, no wives.

Go. Now, before it's too late.

Is that what you want?

Answer me!

Who's for going on and who's for giving up?

I want to know now.

Don't be fools! You'll turn

our village into a graveyard.

Tell them to go. It's the

only thing for them to do.

I'll tell you what I can do.

I can kill the first man who so much

as whispers a word about giving up.

The very first man, so help

me, I'll blow his head off!

We started this fight...

and we're gonna finish it!

With or without you.

I'm not sayin' we bit off

more than we can chew...

but we oughta talk about

what we're gonna do.

We start acting like we

had some good sense.

We figured to raise the ante just enough

to make Calvera play someplace else.

We figured wrong.

We're the only game in town.

A man can't call 'em all.

I didn't say he could.

All I'm saying is that sometimes you

bend with the breeze... or you break.

D'you wanna go?

There comes a time to get out. The village

will be no worse off than before we came.

You forget one thing.

We took a contract.

It's not the kind

courts enforce.

That's just the kind

you've gotta keep.

A noble thought, but the way

things are right now...

I don't know.

The odds are too high.

- Much too high.

- Then we go?

No.

We lower the odds.

Right up into the hills...

past the men on guard...

right into their camp.

I sat there, I smoked a cigarette

with them, we discussed a few things.

We... you know...

All of a sudden,

there was Calvera himself.

Right beside me. When I

brought back the news...

you should have seen the look I

got from Britt...and from Chris.

They have seen a thing or two in

their time, and done them too.

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