The Magnificent Seven

They were seven - And they fought like seven hundred!
The Magnificent Seven
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  • Brand New Documentary
  • Audio Commentary by Eli Wallach, James Coburn, Walter Mirisch and more!
  • Photo Gallery
  • Collectible Booklet
  • Original Theatrical Trailers
  • Languages: English, French, Spanish
  • Subtitles: French, Spanish
  • Rated: Not Rated
  • Run Time: 2 hours, 8 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: May 8, 2001
  • Originally Released: 1960
  • Label: MGM (Video & DVD)

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 53,939
Rating: 3/5 -- Probably the most enjoyable aspect of the film is watching the now legendary names get introduced to the story in 'Ocean's Eleven'-style recruitment vignettes. Full Review
Patrick Nabarro
Nov 4, 2018
Rating: 3/5 -- Bernstein's score is one for the ages. This film, however, is not. Full Review
Quickflix
Oct 21, 2014
...Hugely popular...
Sight and Sound
Sep 1, 2001
About two-thirds of the film is good, tough, unromantic period western. About one-third is sentimental nonsense and it bushwhacks the remainder... In adding so-called commercial values, a good picture has been sabotaged. Full Review
Hollywood Reporter
Sep 11, 2018
What was wonderful in the Kurosawa film -- the recruiting and training of the mercenaries -- is just dead time here. Full Review
Chicago Reader
Sep 21, 2016
Rating: 5/5 -- Director John Sturges was extremely fortunate in securing a near-perfect cast for this enduringly popular western reworking of Japanese classic Seven Samurai. Full Review
Radio Times
Sep 21, 2016
This film may well be the best western of 1960. Full Review
TIME Magazine
Dec 7, 2011

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Spectacular gun battles, epic-sized heroes and an all-star cast that includes Academy Award winners Yul Brynner and James Coburn, together with Steve McQueen, Eli Wallach and Charles Bronson, make The Magnificent Seven a legend among westerns. Spawning three sequels and a successful television series, and featuring Elmer Bernstein's Oscar-nominated score, this stunning remake of The Seven Samurai is "a hard-pounding adventure" (Newsweek) and "an enduringly popular" (Leonard Maltin) cinematic classic.

Merciless Calvera (Wallach) and his band of ruthless outlaws are terrorizing a poor Mexican village, and even the bravest lawmen can't stop them. Desperate, the locals hire Chris Adams (Brynner) and six other gunfighters to defend them. With time running out before Calvera's next raid, the heroic seven must prepare the villagers for this battle and help them find the courage to take back their town - or die trying!

Product Description:

John Sturges's remake of Akira Kurosawa's 1954 classic THE SEVEN SAMURAI has become an influential film in its own right. A small Mexican village that makes involuntary donations of its harvest to a gang of bandits led by Calvera (Eli Wallach) decides to hire a group of professional gunmen, headed by gunslinger-for-hire Chris (Yul Brynner), to protect them. Despite the meager pay, Chris and Vin (Steve McQueen) sign on after the Mexicans see them confront some racist thugs. As they ride to the village, Chris picks up some other gunmen, including Bernardo (Charles Bronson), Lee (Robert Vaughan), Britt (James Coburn), Harry (Brad Dexter), and aspiring gunslinger Chico (Horst Buchholz). The Mexicans, who are at first ambivalent about having gunmen hanging around their town, finally let down their guard and allow their visitors to teach them how to shoot and how to reconfigure the town to defend against Calvera. When the bandits return, they find harvesting the crops a little more challenging. This rousing, perfectly cast action film launched the careers of Bronson, McQueen, and Coburn. It also benefits tremendously from the unforgettably polyrhythmic score by Elmer Bernstein, among the most famous in film history. So popular was the film's theme that it was used to sell Marlboro cigarettes for years afterward.

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  • Sales Rank: 9,742
  • UPC: 027616861078
  • Shipping Weight: 0.47/lbs (approx)
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