Calgary Herald

STAMPEDE ENTERTAINM­ENT PICK FOR JULY 10 GLOBE CINEMA WESTERN SERIES

- ERIC VOLMERS

If you’re tired of the heat, the deepfried food and the country music offered at the Greatest Outdoor Show on Earth but still want to keep the cowboy vibe going, check out the Western Series in the airconditi­oned climes of the Globe Cinema.

For fans of the western, and cinema in general, this programmin­g for the series is first-rate. The seven-film series, which begins July 10 and runs until the 14th, starts and finishes with two of the genre’s best.

The opener is John Sturges’ Magnificen­t Seven (July 10, 7 p.m.), with Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen and Charles Bronson.

Bronson is also in the closing film, Once Upon a Time in the West (July 14, 8:30 p.m.), Sergio Leone’s sprawling spaghetti western classic that also starred Jason Robards and a very nasty and against-type Henry Fonda.

In between, you can see the 1966 revenge western Navajo Joe (July 11, 7 p.m.), which starred Burt Reynolds in the lead role; 2016’s In a Valley of Violence, with Ethan Hawke and John Travolta; Adios, Sabata (July 13, 7 p.m.), a 1970 spaghetti western starring Yul Brynner and directed by Italian filmmaker Gianfranco Parolin; 2015’s western-horror hybrid Bone Tomahawk (July 13, 9 p.m.; no minors.) with Kurt Russell; and The Naked Spur (July 14, 6:30 p.m.), Anthony Mann’s Oscar-nominated western with James Stewart, Janet Leigh and Robert Ryan.

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