Yul Brynner
In real-life, a bon viveur and womaniser
Steve McQueen, in a career-defining role
Horst Bucholz, oddly cast as Chico, a hothead
Who no one expects to survive
James Coburn, the coolest, by a wide margin
Robert Vaughn, the Man from Uncle
Charles Bronson, the hero with the weirdest name
Bernado O’Reilly. And finally, Harry Luck
The one everyone forgets, played by Brad Dexter
Seven Labour MPs opted to stand with Mexican
villagers against the rapacious appetites of Capital
and vote, suicidally, against the two-child benefit
cap. Keir Starmer, in the role made famous
by Eli Wallach, immediately withdrew the whip
from the rebels in a lesson intended to send a message
to all the peasants on the Labour Benches, hundreds
of them, meekly holding the collective brim
of their sombrero in front of them and looking sorry
for themselves. There was nothing they could do
to address the gross inequality, the imbalance of forces
The hunger of children is a price worth paying
to sit in parliament, importantly
The Kurosawa film is much more radical
than the Western remake
.
Steven Taylor