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...Steve McQueen, of course. He may not be quite as big, rough and ferrous as the cast-iron Duke, but he has proved himself worthy. He has displayed reckless fortitude by following Yul Brynner into battle in The Magnificent Seven. He was TV's Hessian headhunter in Wanted-Dead or Alive, serving what he describes as "three hard mother-grabbin' years, but I learned my trade and it gave me discipline." His range is so breathtaking that he can play either a grim soldier, as he did in Hell Is for Heroes, or a buoyantly impish soldier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Actors: The Mild One | 6/28/1963 | See Source »

...Honeymoon Machine. This is the Hollywood machine in a rare moment of felicitous clank, turning out a slick, quick, funny comedy about sailors, girls, a roulette table and a computing machine. With Steve McQueen and Paula Prentiss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Aug. 18, 1961 | 8/18/1961 | See Source »

...Honeymoon Machine. This is the Hollywood machine in a rare moment of felicitous clank, turning out a slick, quick, funny comedy about sailors, girls, a roulette table and a computing machine. With Steve McQueen and Paula Prentiss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Television, Theater, Books: Aug. 11, 1961 | 8/11/1961 | See Source »

...Honeymoon Machine (Avon; MGM) is the Hollywood machine in a rare moment of felicitous clank, turning out the slick, quick, funny film for which it was designed. Among the astonishingly lifelike moving parts are: Steve McQueen, a sailor (sailors are dependably hilarious); Jack Mullaney, a sailor and a Southerner (Southerners used to be hilarious); and Jim Hutton. a missile scientist (scientists never were very funny, but Hutton is also a man in love, and thus hilarious). The three of them decide to become wealthy at a Venice casino, using as their good-luck talisman a ship-based, missile-tracking electronic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Follow That Mothball | 8/4/1961 | See Source »

...Hollywood version of the Kurosawa story, the seven samurai become seven Texas gunmen (Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Horst Buchholz, James Coburn, Charles Bronson, Robert Vaughn, Brad Dexter). One day. Bravo Brynner is approached by some Mexican farmers who offer him everything they have if he will protect their village from a bandit chieftain (Eli Wallach). Unexpectedly moved, he accepts their minuscule fee, recruits the other six, and together they ride out on their errand of mercy. Why? Not one of them is really sure until the bandit gang is wiped out and the three surviving gunmen say farewell. "You have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 12, 1960 | 12/12/1960 | See Source »

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