It is a nice Western starred by two of the greatest Hillywood icons, Kirk Douglas and John Wayne. It reminds more acclaimed Magnificent Seven, but I considered It better. Here, "five magnificent" are assembled to rob a heavily armed stagecoach. Two of them (you know who) are, however, much more magnificent than the others. That is why the film also reninds another movie by John Sturges: Last Train from Gun Hill. Wayne's Taw and Douglas's Lomax have an unstable relationship in the border between skilled partners and bitter rivals, somewhat like Douglas's Morgan and Anthony Quinn's Belden in aforementioned 1959 Western. The parallel is so striking that the titles both movies received in Brazilian Portuguese were similar: Giants Fight and Titans Duel, respectively.
Review of The War Wagon
