The Magnificent Seven

Why watch

Starlit Cine editors

• Best for anyone who wants a classic Western, produced by John Sturges.
• Yul Brynner, Eli Wallach and Steve McQueen are in the cast of this 1960 film.
• About 2 hours 8 minutes, paced slower than modern action films.

Synopsis

The Magnificent Seven is a 1960 American action 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. The ensemble cast includes Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Horst Buchholz, Charles Bronson, Robert Vaughn, Brad Dexter and James Coburn as a group of seven gunfighters hired to protect a small village in Mexico from a group of marauding bandits led by the ruthless chief Calvera.

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Director & cast

• J

  John Sturges

  Director

• Y

  Yul Brynner

  Chris Adams

• E

  Eli Wallach

• S

  Steve McQueen

• J

  James Coburn

• R

  Robert Vaughn

• C

  Charles Bronson

• H

  Horst Buchholz

• B

  Brad Dexter