The Magnificent Seven 1960

The Magnificent Seven 1960

 

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"

 

The Magnificent Seven 1960

The Magnificent Seven 1960

The Magnificent Seven 1960

The Magnificent Seven 1960

The Magnificent Seven 1960