MacMurray makes a satisfying western hero in just about all of his

ventures in that direction. No way does this film deserve such a low rating. It's an entertaining western and the violence is refreshingly appropriate, ahead of its time, keeping it from being just another western TV show put on the big screen. The boy's death is simply realistic, that's all. It's something you might have seen in an Italian spaghetti western or any European western, practically unheard of in 1959. Too bad Magnificent Seven wasn't more violent and disturbing. Violence should be portrayed occasionally as disturbing. Americans love war and fighting. If they had seen on the news the horrors of what was going on in Vietnam, more Americans might have been anti-Vietnam a lot sooner, instead of chomping at the bit to send boys from low income families to their deaths for ridiculous political reasons. Still today, our media is prohibited byt the government military corporate complex from showing what is happening in Syria and the middle east, to keep the average American the stupid uninformed idiot that he/she is. Euro films were realistically violent long before American films were and look how peaceful those countries are. Americans are SUCH hypocrites, probably more than any people in the world. Or maybe just stupid and uninformed.