The Magnificent Seven

The Magnificent Seven
Original film poster
Directed by	John Sturges
Produced by	John Sturges
Screenplay by	William Roberts Uncredited: Walter Newman Walter Bernstein
Based on	Seven Samurai by Akira Kurosawa Shinobu Hashimoto Hideo Oguni (all uncredited)
Starring	Yul Brynner Steve McQueen Charles Bronson Robert Vaughn Brad Dexter James Coburn Horst Buchholz Eli Wallach
Music by	Elmer Bernstein
Cinematography	Charles Lang
Edited by	Ferris Webster
Production company	The Mirisch Company Alpha Productions
Distributed by	United Artists
Release date	October 23, 1960 (1960-10-23)
Running time	128 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$2 million
Box office	$2,250,000 (rentals)

The Magnificent Seven is a 1960 American Western film directed by John Sturges and starring Charles Bronson, Yul Brynner, Horst Buchholz, James Coburn, Brad Dexter, Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, and Eli Wallach. The film is an Old West-style remake of Akira Kurosawa's 1954 Japanese masterpiece Seven Samurai. Brynner, McQueen, Buchholz, Charles Bronson, Robert Vaughn, James Coburn, and Brad Dexter portray the title characters, a group of seven gunfighters hired to protect a small village in Mexico from a group of marauding bandits and their leader (Wallach). The film's musical score was composed by Elmer Bernstein. 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".

A poor village in Mexico is periodically raided for food and supplies by Calvera (Eli Wallach) and his bandits. After he and his forty men's latest raid, during which they kill a villager, the village leaders decide the situation cannot continue. They discuss it with the venerated elder (Vladimir Sokoloff) who lives just outside the village, and he recommends they fight back. Taking what meager objects of value the village has, a delegation rides to a town just inside the United States border hoping to barter for weapons to defend themselves with. Once there they approach Chris Adams (Yul Brynner), a veteran Cajun gunslinger. Chris suggests they hire gunfighters to defend the village, which would be cheaper than buying guns and ammunition. He cautions the village men that once they actively resist Calvera they will have to keep killing until all the bandits are dead. At first Chris agrees only to help the delegation find capable men, but later he decides to recruit and lead them. Despite the poor pay offered, he is able to find five gunmen, all doing it for their own reasons.