Sete Pistolas para os MacGregor

This spaghetti western can be put into the "routine" category. It has one of those meandering plots which seems to have been put together from notes jotted on the back of an envelope. However, patient viewers will be rewarded by a few quirky moments which add touches of interest to the proceedings. For example, there's the piano player in the saloon who switches to classical music when brawls break out, there's a sequence in which the stripped-to-the-waist hero gets whipped across his bare back -- a flogging which ranks 48th in the book "Lash! The Hundred Great Scenes of Men Being Whipped in the Movies" -- and there's a nifty fight between the good guy and the bad guy involving a rotating waterwheel. What's more, the dubbed English voices trying, occasionally, for Scottish accents produce a few unintended chuckles. It's not much, but you take what you can get.

Ranch owner MacGregor has seven sons and oldest Gregor leads his brothers to Las Mesas, a small town where they want to sell horses. They get into trouble with local people who are related with evil Santillana. After getting imprisoned and losing their horses they decide to go after Santillana's gang.

7 Guns for McGregor is a traditional western entwined with the Spaghetti- it has the usual whining guns, Almeria, Spain location and a fair amount of body count, but the traditional western comes in form of likeable heroes ( 7 brothers) and a lack of nihilism and the right dose of light humour. It's quite a lively western with a fun and eventful plot and plenty of gunplay and brawls. Standouts: The knife fight on a waterwheel and a truly exciting train assault where Fernando Sancho nearly lost his head. He climbed on top of the train as the iron bridge appeared. Luckily he wasn't injured.

This is a great early Euro western with all of the usual elements an Italian western; revenge, gold, beautiful women , dusty scenes and an Ennio Morricone score, as regards the music. I won't give away the plot! There's also the usual staged -and perhaps pointless fistfights - and some humour. Definitely worth a watch for fans of the genre, if you can find a copy. Hardly the greatest in the genre, but worthwhile nonetheless.

This movie has a couple of interesting moments, but mostly it just tries to be "cute," and that doesn't really make for a good spaghetti western. Having a great music score from the master Ennio Morricone can't even save this one from being a below average example.

The most notable spaghetti western regular in this film is Fernando Sancho, who is usually great to watch, but here his role is simply that of a crony, and he doesn't get to shine.

As for the MacGregors, the senior members of the clan are gritty, tough old Scots, and I kind of liked them, but you don't really see that much of them in the film. The story focuses on the sons, who are so ridiculously happy-go-lucky it makes you sick. It's like watching a gang of seven Peter Pans, and they act like puppy dogs every time they see a pretty girl. In reality, these guys wouldn't survive very long in a brutal cutthroat western environment, yet somehow they do. The movie is also part love story, of course.

The most notable part of the film is an especially brutal scene where a guy is repeatedly dragged through a fire.

This one's kind of lame, and not really worth seeking out when there are so many better eurowesterns to choose from.

Old MacGregor has seven sons and the oldest one Gregor leads his brothers to Las Mesas, a small town where they want to sell 200 horses. They get into trouble with people who are related with evil Santillana. After getting imprisoned and losing their horses they decide to go after Santillana's gang. Gregor goes undercover and joins the gang. Sometimes funny and exciting this film doesn't manage to be more than one of many. All characters are either good or bad and the baddies are always just dumb enough to let the plot go on.

Noteworthy is Ennio Morricone's score which is good but doesn't belong to his famous ones. Cinematography is proper.

4 / 10.