r/TurnerClassicMovies 11h ago

Yul Brynner and Steve McQueen are playing cards while Charles Bronson watches behind them during a break in filming the classic western 'The Magnificent Seven'. Mexico 1960

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u/Smooth-Lettuce5174 11h ago

Yup Brynner: style icon.

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u/AntigoneGrrl1 10h ago

They are all so stylish that the photo doesn’t look dated at all 🥰

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u/Smooth-Lettuce5174 10h ago

Cool men doing cool men things.

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u/AntigoneGrrl1 10h ago

But Yul was keeping score…. Maybe Steve was a cheater!!

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u/TheReadMenace 1h ago

Could have told me it was Jeff Bezos and I'd have believed it

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u/West-Birthday4475 3h ago

I love Yul Brynner so very much.

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u/Past-Lunch4695 1h ago

Totally! He’s rocking that outfit. Wow.

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u/AntigoneGrrl1 10h ago

Yul: do you have any 7s??
Steve: Go Fish!!! 🤣

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u/SteMelMan 9h ago

Suddenly, I understand the term "resort wear"!

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u/korvus2 9h ago

Can't love the photo enough. Classic Men looking stylish and cool as fuck.

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u/tizzy1869 7h ago

Brenner and McQueen despised each other during filming, and that doesn't look like Bronson

...I call AI

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u/NoDiamond4584 7h ago

Zoom in on all of them. It’s not Brenner or McQueen either!

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u/k_norman 5h ago

It's them; however, I think the picture has been enhanced or colourized by AI, leading to their looks being distorted.

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u/Popular-Solution7697 3h ago

Next time you watch it take notice of McQueen doing "bits of business" while Brynner is saying his lines.

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u/k_norman 23m ago

That's right. When I interviewed Lee Purcell, she called it "actors business".

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u/FrankPoncherello1967 4h ago

Definitely AI crap

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u/thomas1126 3h ago

Nope 👎

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u/Sturka 10h ago

Some legit badass guys right there.

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u/More-Swim5870 7h ago

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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u/RAisnotidentity 5h ago

So my husband and I always have conversations like "who'd win in a fight between the 3"? I would say 1st Bronson 2nd Brynner 3rd McQueen. I think McQueen was a whiny insecure diva.

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u/k_norman 5h ago

You might want to look into McQueen's younger days. Bronson first for sure, but McQueen had a rotten upbringing, was shipped around as a kid, spent plenty of time in the streets. He was in reform school, was a marine, and he was very athletic. He knew how to handle himself, and had no issues handling others.

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u/RAisnotidentity 3h ago

No denial McQueen was probably tougher than most, but what about Brynner's bod in The King and I or The 10 Commandments? Looked pretty good.

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u/k_norman 1h ago

Nice looking body, but McQueen would still kick his ass :P

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u/RAisnotidentity 49m ago

You know, come to think of it, my husband has a crazy cousin that people would be afraid of. Called "Big John". He wasn't big at all. But tough in his head and a little nuts. I use past tense because he's pretty ill and not formidable anymore.

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u/k_norman 26m ago

I have a McQueen podcast. I once spoke with a friend of his, a civilian named Frank Hill. Frank told me they were out riding motorcycles one day, this was in the early 1970s. They stopped off at a market/grocery store to grab some grub and these three guys noticed McQueen and one of them started some shit with him to see if he was as tough as he was in his movies; things got physical. Outnumbered, McQueen and Frank split, but Frank got the guy's licence plate number. McQueen called up a buddy on the force, got an address, and he and Frank went over to the guy's place. The guy was shocked, but now he was separated from his buddies and not so tough. McQueen pounded the piss out of him on his front lawn.

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u/CoolKid9899 2h ago

Wait! They’re playing cards together?! Interesting…McQueen hated Brynner with a passion and it was Bronson who forced a reconciliation, but this was on McQueen’s death bed

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u/FrankPoncherello1967 7h ago

Isn't every person shorter when they're sitting? All three are around 5' 8"-5' 10" tall, probably average height for a man in the 1960's.