Inside Mexico, Chris meets up with an old friend that tried earlier in the film to recruit Chris for another Magnificent Seven-style fight against some stupid Mexican gang of bandits. Perhaps he's gone across the desert to Mexico. When Chris finds two of them, he soon dispatches them-but isn't sure where the third is. Unfortunately, his wife's body is found along the trail and the trio brutalized and raped her. When he sufficiently recovered from the shooting to give chase, Chris sets off to catch the creeps. However, after three punks rob the bank, shoot the sheriff and kidnap his wife, the usual routine is disrupted. He's now a sheriff and has a young bride (Mariette Hartley). When the film begins, Chris (Van Cleef) has settled down. In fact, this film is a bit like the first three combined with "The Dirty Dozen"! This one is just enough different to make it interesting.a bit.
The first three plots are pretty much clones. While "The Magnificent Seven Ride!" is yet another attempt to squeeze a little bit of life out of a dead franchise, at least it offers SOME differences. So, when he was later played by George Kennedy and Lee Van Cleef (in this film), it was a huge letdown. Yul Brynner played him in the first two and was a tremendous presence. In the case of Chris, the leader of the seven, he was played by three different actors. Part of it is that the cast kept changing. Part of it is that the plots are pretty much the same as the first film. While the first film was exceptional in every way, I can't say there was much reason for the other three films. I recently watched all four of the Magnificent Seven movies and "The Magnificent Seven Ride!" was the last. Reviewed by MartinHafer 4 / 10 Trying to keep a dying franchise alive. Can the new Magnificent Seven and the town's defenceless women put an end to De Toro's reign of terror? Filled with guilt, Chris decides to visit the town-now inhabited by widows-before the tough band's imminent return, having no other choice but to recruit a brand-new team of unlikely defenders. Marshall, Chris Adams, declines his old friend Jim McKay's invitation to stop the outlaw De Toro and his marauding gang of bandits from attacking the Mexican border town of Magdalena. After his last adventure in the Guns of the Magnificent Seven (1969), the former leader of the Seven and now a married U.S.