Back Die glorreichen Sieben ALS The Magnificent Seven AN السبعة الرائعون (فيلم) Arabic السبعه الرائعون (فيلم 1960) ARZ Великолепната седморка Bulgarian Sedmorica veličanstvenih BS Els set magnífics (pel·lícula de 1960) Catalan Sedm statečných Czech The Magnificent Seven Welsh Syv mænd sejrer Danish
| The Magnificent Seven | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | John Sturges |
| Written by | William Roberts Uncredited: Walter Newman Walter Bernstein |
| Based on | Seven Samurai by Akira Kurosawa Shinobu Hashimoto Hideo Oguni (all uncredited) |
| Produced by | John Sturges |
| Starring | Yul Brynner Eli Wallach Steve McQueen Charles Bronson Robert Vaughn James Coburn Horst Buchholz Bing Russell |
| Cinematography | Charles Lang |
| Edited by | Ferris Webster |
| Music by | Elmer Bernstein |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | United Artists |
Release date |
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Running time | 128 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $2 million[1] |
| Box office | $2,250,000 (rentals)[2] |
The Magnificent Seven is an American western movie. It was made in 1960. The music composer was Elmer Bernstein. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Original Music Score in 1960.
The movie stars Yul Brynner, Eli Wallach and Steve McQueen. The movie is a western style version of Akira Kurosawa's Japanese-language movie Seven Samurai, made in 1954. Other actors are Charles Bronson, Robert Vaughn, James Coburn, Brad Dexter, Horst Buchholz and Bing Russell.
A Mexican village keeps on getting raided for food and supplies by a bandit (Eli Wallach) and his gang. The seven are a group of gunfighters hired to protect the village. The movie was made on location in Mexico. One of the towns used for the village is Durango.
In 2013, the movie was picked by the Library of Congress to be kept in the National Film Registry because it is "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".[3] This means the movie will be protected from damage that happens to older film that was used to make movies.
- ↑ Glenn Lovell, Escape Artist: The Life and Films of John Sturges, University of Wisconsin Press, 2008 page 194
- ↑ "Rental Potentials of 1960", Variety, 4 January 1961 page 47.
- ↑ "Library of Congress announces 2013 National Film Registry selections" (Press release). Washington Post. December 18, 2013. Retrieved May 25, 2015.