The Magnificent Seven

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The Magnificent Seven is a classic 1960 American Western film, inspired by Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai, that follows a group of hired gunmen defending a Mexican village from bandits.

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instanceOf American Western film
feature film
antagonist bandits
basedOn The Magnificent Seven self-linksurface differs
surface form: Seven Samurai
basedOnWorkBy Akira Kurosawa
Hideo Oguni NERFINISHED
Shinobu Hashimoto
character Bernardo O'Reilly
Britt
Calvera
Chico
Chris Adams
Harry Luck
Lee
Vin Tanner
cinemaProcess CinemaScope
cinematographyBy Charles Lang
colorProcess DeLuxe Color
surface form: Metrocolor
composer Elmer Bernstein
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
countryOfRelease United States of America
surface form: United States
director John Sturges
distributedBy United Artists
editedBy Ferris Webster
follows group of hired gunmen
genre Western film
action film
hasSequel Guns of the Magnificent Seven
Return of the Seven
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inspired The Magnificent Seven (2016 film)
mainSubject gunfighters defending a Mexican village
musicBy Elmer Bernstein
notableFor being a Western remake of Seven Samurai
iconic Elmer Bernstein score
originalLanguage English
producer John Sturges
productionCompany The Mirisch Company
releaseDate 1960-10-12
releaseYear 1960
runtimeMinutes 128
screenwriter Walter Bernstein
Walter Newman
William Roberts
setting Mexican village
starring Brad Dexter
Charles Bronson
Eli Wallach
Horst Buchholz
James Coburn
Robert Vaughn
Steve McQueen
Yul Brynner

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Denzel Washington notableWork The Magnificent Seven
United Artists produced The Magnificent Seven