The Magnificent Seven

Name: The Magnificent Seven
Genre: Action, Adventure
Released: 1960-10-12
Duration: 127 min
Rating: 7.508
Cast: Yul Brynner, Eli Wallach, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, Robert Vaughn

They were seven…and they fought like seven hundred!

12 October 1960127 minEN 7.5

Action Adventure

An oppressed Mexican peasant village hires seven gunfighters to help defend their homes.

Budget: $2,000,000Box Office: $4,905,000

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Viewer Opinions (6)

Filipe Manuel Neto@FilipeManuelNeto

★★★★★ 9.0

The 7.5 rating makes total sense. The script maintains the structure of Kurosawa's film, adapted to Northern Mexico: a village of peaceful peasants, often pillaged by a band of malefactors, who hire a small group of seven honorable gunmen to help them defend themselves. …

11 January 2023VerifiedUser Review

CinemaSerf@Geronimo1967

★★★★☆ 7.0

The local population put up some satisfying performances too and although it lacks the intensity and grittiness of "Seven Samurai" I think it certainly holds it's own as a classic piece of entertainment. This version of Kurosawa's 1954 story tells of a group of put-upon villagers who set out to recruit some hired guns to help them fend off a gang of murderous marauders. …

28 December 2022VerifiedUser Review

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Comments

CinemaSerf

Add the ensemble of Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, James Coburn, Yul Brynner and a superb Eli Wallach and it is a certainty. This version of Kurosawa's 1954 story tells of a group of put-upon villagers who set out to recruit some hired guns to help them fend off a gang of murderous marauders. The local population put up some satisfying performances too and although it lacks the intensity and grittiness of "Seven Samurai" I think it certainly holds it's own as a classic piece of entertainment.

John Chard

Adhering closely to Kurosawa's themes, director John Sturges has crafted a classic in its own right, one that has become something of a Bank Holiday staple for TV schedulers. When you break it down for scrutiny, the story is purely a very ordinary one, although as each archetype character and set up arrives, it becomes evident that it's a story rich in texture, all framed marvellously in a Western setting.