The Magnificent Seven (1960)

Directed by

John Sturges

Genre

drama film, action film, Western film

Country

United States

Runtime

2h 08m

Rated

NR

Rating

7.5 of 10 from 2,015 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A group of seven gunfighters are hired to defend a Mexican village from a band of violent outlaws. They train the locals to fight and prepare for a final showdown.

heroicdeterminedgrittysuspensefulspiritedtenseupliftingclassic

What happens

The Magnificent Seven is a 1960 American Western film directed by John Sturges. The screenplay, credited to William Roberts, is a remake – in an Old West-style – of Akira Kurosawa's 1954 Japanese film Seven Samurai (itself initially released in the United States as The Magnificent Seven). The ensemble cast includes Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, Robert Vaughn, Brad Dexter, James Coburn, and Horst Buchholz as a group of seven gunfighters hired to protect a small village in Mexico from a group of marauding bandits led by Eli Wallach. The film was released by United Artists on October 12, 1960, becoming both a critical and commercial success and has been appraised as one of the greatest films of the Western genre. It spawned three sequels, a television series that aired from 1998 to 2000, and a 2016 film remake. Elmer Bernstein's film score was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Score and is listed on the American Film Institute's list of the top 25 American film scores. In 2013, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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