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23 October 1960 (USA) moreTagline:
They were seven - And they fought like seven hundred! morePlot:
An oppressed Mexican peasant village assembles seven gunfighters to help defend their homes. full summary | add synopsisAwards:
Nominated for Oscar. Another 1 win & 2 nominations moreNewsDesk:
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A classic all right moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Yul Brynner | ... | Chris Adams | |
| Eli Wallach | ... | Calvera | |
| Steve McQueen | ... | Vin | |
| Charles Bronson | ... | Bernardo O'Reilly | |
| Robert Vaughn | ... | Lee | |
| Brad Dexter | ... | Harry Luck | |
| James Coburn | ... | Britt | |
| Horst Buchholz | ... | Chico | |
| Jorge Martínez de Hoyos | ... | Hilario (as Jorge Martinez de Hoyas) | |
| Vladimir Sokoloff | ... | Old man | |
| Rosenda Monteros | ... | Petra | |
| Rico Alaniz | ... | Sotero | |
| Pepe Hern | |||
| Natividad Vacío | ... | Miguel (as Natividad Vacio) | |
| Mario Navarro | ... | Boy with O'Reilly |
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View content advisory for parentsRuntime:
128 minCountry:
USAColor:
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2.35 : 1 moreSound Mix:
Mono (Westrex Recording System)Certification:
Canada:PG (Manitoba/Ontario) | Canada:G (Nova Scotia/Quebec) | Australia:PG (TV rating) (2005) | Australia:PG | Netherlands:6 (DVD rating) | USA:Approved (certificate #19668) | West Germany:12 (f) | Brazil:12 | Argentina:13 | Australia:M (TV rating) | Finland:K-16 | Norway:16 | Sweden:15 | UK:PGFun Stuff
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Sterling Hayden was originally supposed to play the knife expert, Britt. Hayden dropped out for unknown reasons, so John Sturges sent out an extensive casting call. Robert Vaughn (Lee) recommended his old schoolmate and friend James Coburn for the role. Vaughn and Coburn helped each other get roles throughout the rest of Coburn's life. moreGoofs:
Continuity: When Calvera and his gang first ride into town in the beginning of the movie, they are seen taking chickens and food. When they ride out of town, they do not have any of the loot with them. moreQuotes:
[Chris is driving the hearse up to Boot Hill; Vin is riding shotgun]Chris: We'll get there.
Vin: It's not getting up there that bothers me. It's staying up there that I mind.
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Re-make are seldom as good as the original, but here Hollywood or rather John Sturges managed to capture some of the spirit of Kurosawa's 'Seven Samurai' which itself owes something to the 'Three Musketeers' and which Sturges duly acknowledged in the credits. Partly this is due to some inspired casting. With the exception of Yul Brynner, none of the actors was particularly well known at the time. Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, James Coburn, Robert Vaughn, Eli Wallach and Horst Buchholz (an unlikely Mexican) all went on to successful acting careers. The format of this film was replicated in many later films.
The plot couldn't be simpler. Desperate Mexican villagers, bled white by local bandits, retain a group of almost equally desperate gunslingers from the other side of the Rio Grand to deal with the bandits. A lot of the fun arises early on as leader Cajun Chris seeks out half a dozen suitably deranged but deadly types for the job. Ostensibly they are doing it for the money but it becomes apparent early on that they are really on the team just for the hell of it. Once they are together things don't quite go to plan, but the camaraderie holds up, and their mission is accomplished, though at considerable cost.
Despite all the action it is a character-driven piece in some ways. Eli Wallach's Calvera the bandit leader is more than a cardboard cut-out villain and Yul Brynner's enigmatic Chris keeps us guessing. The villagers, despite their matching white smocks, are not all lily-white and each of the Seven has at least one interesting weakness.
A strong feature of the film is the music, penned by the ubiquitous Elmer Bernstein, and entirely appropriate, with a main theme which seems to be permanently welded into my brain.
'The Magnificent Seven' was made at a time when the appetite for westerns was going into decline. Whereas westerns were staple film and TV fare in the 50's, the sixties saw a sharp decline, as spy dramas and sex farces burgeoned. One interesting theory I've heard about this is that it's not so much that the audience tired of westerns, but that TV executives discovered that they were being watched by the people too poor to buy their sponsor's fine products. Anyway this film holds up very well after 45 years, a true classic and satisfying to watch.