The Magnificent Seven
released in 1960

“The Magnificent Seven” is an American western film classic produced and directed by John Sturges. It was written by William Roberts, Walter Newman and Walter Bernstein. It is a remake of the Japanese classic film “The Seven Samuria” by Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto and Hideo Oguni (released in 1954). It stars Yul Brynner, Eli Wallach, Steve McQueen, Rosenda Monteros, Charles Bronson, Robert Vaughn, James Coburn, Brad Dexter and Horst Buchholz. The music was composed by Elmer Bernstein.

“The Magnificent Seven” is an American Western classic staring some of the titans of film from that time. It embodies the great themes of the western genre with characters that range from courageous to lecherous. It is the remake of a Japanese Classic film where the samurais are replaced with gunslingers.

The story is simple. A bunch of gunslingers are hired by a very poor town to fend off a group of 40 bandits. The townspeople are hard-working farmers and can no longer afford the robbing and violence of the bandits so they hire a group of seven gunslingers. Things don´t look good at first glance.

Calvera, played by Eli Wallach, is head of the bandits robbing the small Mexican town of farmers. He is arrogant and overly confident he can handle the gunslingers, after all, it´s 7 gunslingers against 40 bandits. Calvera meets the Cajun gunslinger Chris Adams, played by Yul Brynner and his band of 6 and is shocked by the town´s choice to hire protection. The rest is just great storytelling and cowboy movie history.

This is a very good movie with some of the finest talent Hollywood has had. This western is a timeless classic that is worth seeing. I highly recommend it.

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