The Magnificent Seven

The Magnificent Seven
The Magnificent Seven
	Theatrical release poster
Directed by	John Sturges
Screenplay by	William Roberts; Uncredited:; Walter Bernstein; Walter Newman;
Based on	Seven Samurai; by Akira Kurosawa; Shinobu Hashimoto; Hideo Oguni; (uncredited)
Produced by	John Sturges
Starring	Yul Brynner; Eli Wallach; Steve McQueen; Charles Bronson; Robert Vaughn; Horst Buchholz;
Cinematography	Charles Lang
Edited by	Ferris Webster
Music by	Elmer Bernstein
Production; companies	The Mirisch Company; Alpha Productions;
Distributed by	United Artists
Release date	October 12, 1960;
Running time	128 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$2 million
Box office	$9.75 million (rentals)

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]

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]

^ "UA To Use Color TV". Motion Picture Daily. October 3, 1960. p. 3.
^ Glenn Lovell, Escape Artist: The Life and Films of John Sturges, University of Wisconsin Press, 2008 p194
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^ ^a ^b "The Magnificent Seven". Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved January 3, 2024.
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^ "Library of Congress announces 2013 National Film Registry selections". The Washington Post (Press release). December 18, 2013. Retrieved December 18, 2013.
^ "Complete National Film Registry Listing". Library of Congress. Retrieved May 5, 2020.