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Director: John Sturges
Genres: Epic Western, Buddy Film, Ensemble Film, Western
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Summary:
Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa's The Seven Samurai (1954) is westernized as The Magnificent Seven. Yul Brynner plays Chris, a mercenary hired to protect a Mexican farming village from its annual invasion by bandit Calvera (Eli Wallach). As Elmer Bernstein's unforgettable theme music (later immortalized as the "Marlboro Man" leitmotif) blasts away in the background, C... Full Summary >>

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Cast:
Yul Brynner - (Chris)
Eli Wallach - (Calvera)
Steve McQueen - (Vin)
Horst Buchholz - (Chico)
Charles Bronson - (O'Reilly)
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Review:
One of the most popular Westerns of all time, John Sturges' The Magnificent Seven was based on Akira Kurosawa's 1954 epic The Seven Samurai (which was originally titled "The Magnificent Seven" and was itself a thematic descendant of the Westerns of John Ford). Director/producer Sturges packed a huge amount of plot and detail into ... Continue >>

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