The Magnificent Seven
1960 film directed by John Sturges / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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[4] as a group of seven gunfighters and Eli Wallach as their main antagonist. The seven title characters are hired to protect a small village in Mexico from a group of marauding bandits led by Wallach.[4]
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Directed by | John Sturges |
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Based on | (uncredited) |
Produced by | John Sturges |
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Cinematography | Charles Lang |
Edited by | Ferris Webster |
Music by | Elmer Bernstein |
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Distributed by | United Artists |
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Running time | 128 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $2 million[2] |
Box office | $9.75 million (rentals)[3] |
The film was released by United Artists on October 12, 1960. It was both a critical and commercial success and has been appraised as one of the greatest films of the Western genre.[5] 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".[6][7]