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| The Magnificent Seven | |
|---|---|
| Theatrical release poster | |
| Directed by | John Sturges |
| Produced by | John Sturges |
| Screenplay by | William Roberts Uncredited:Walter BernsteinWalter Newman |
| Based on | Seven Samurai by Akira Kurosawa Shinobu Hashimoto Hideo Oguni (uncredited) |
| Starring | Yul Brynner Eli Wallach Steve McQueen Charles Bronson Robert Vaughn Horst Buchholz |
| 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 12, 1960 |
| Running time | 128 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $2 million |
| Box office | $2.25 million (US rentals) 89 million tickets (overseas) |
The Magnificent Seven is a 1960 American Western film directed by John Sturges and starring Yul Brynner, Eli Wallach, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, Robert Vaughn, Brad Dexter, James Coburn and Horst Buchholz. The film is an Old West–style remake of Akira Kurosawa‘s 1954 Japanese film Seven Samurai. Brynner, McQueen, Bronson, Vaughn, Dexter, Coburn and Buchholz portray the title characters, a group of seven gunfighters hired to protect a small village in Mexico from a group of marauding bandits (whose leader is played by Wallach). The film’s musical score was composed by Elmer Bernstein. In 2013, the film was selected for the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant”.
Yul Brynner approached producer Walter Mirisch with the idea of remaking Kurosawa’s famous samurai film. But once Mirisch had acquired the rights from Japan’s Toho Studios, and finalized a distribution deal with United Artists, Brynner was sued for breach of contract by actor Anthony Quinn, who claimed that he and Brynner had developed the concept together and had worked out many of the film’s details before the two had a falling-out. Quinn ultimately lost his claim, because there was nothing in writing.
Franck Pourcel & His Grand Orchestra
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Watch the Japanese version of The Magnificent Seven” The Seven Samurai”
Script credit was a subject of contention. Associate producer Lou Morheim commissioned Walter Bernstein, a blacklisted scriptwriter, to produce the first draft “faithfully” adapted from the original script written by Shinobu Hashimoto, Hideo Oguni and Akira Kurosawa; when executive producer Walter Mirisch and Brynner took over the production, they brought on Walter Newman, whose version “is largely what’s on screen.” When Newman was unavailable to be on-site during the film’s principal photography in Mexico, William Roberts was hired, in part to make changes required by Mexican censors. When Roberts asked the Writers Guild of America for a co-credit, Newman asked that his name be removed from the credits.
Sturges was eager to cast Steve McQueen in the picture, having just worked with him on the 1959 film Never So Few, but McQueen could not get a release from actor/producer Dick Powell, who controlled McQueen’s hit TV series Wanted Dead or Alive. On the advice of his agent, McQueen, an experienced race car driver, staged a car accident and claimed that he could not work on his series because he had suffered a whiplash injury and had to wear a neck brace. During the interval required for his “recuperation”, he was free to appear in The Magnificent Seven.
James Coburn was a great fan of the Japanese film Seven Samurai, having seen it 15 times, and was hired through the help of co-star and former classmate Robert Vaughn, after the role of the expert knifethrower had been rejected by actors Sterling Hayden and John Ireland.
Robert Vaughn, who died in November 11, 2016, was the last surviving member of the main cast. Rosenda Monteros was the last surviving cast member until her death on December 29, 2018.
The film was shot by cinematographer Charles Lang in a 35mm anamorphic format using Panavision lens. Location shooting began on March 1, 1960, in Mexico, where both the village and the U.S. border town were built for the film. The location filming was in Cuernavaca, Durango, and Tepoztlán and at the Churubusco Studios. The first scenes were the first part of the six gunfighters’ journey to the Mexican village prior to Chico being brought into the group.
The film’s score is by Elmer Bernstein. Along with the readily recognized main theme and effective support of the story line, the score also contains allusions to twentieth-century symphonic works, such as the reference to Bartok’s Concerto for Orchestra, second movement, in the tense quiet scene just before the shoot out. The original soundtrack was not released at the time until reused and rerecorded by Bernstein for the soundtrack of Return of the Seven.
Electric guitar cover versions by Al Caiola in the U.S. and John Barry in the U.K. were successful on the popular charts. A vocal theme not written by Bernstein was used in a trailer.
At the 33rd Academy Awards, the score was nominated for Best Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture, losing to Ernest Gold‘s score for Exodus. Many decades later, however, the score for The Magnificent Seven was listed at No. 8 on the American Film Institute‘s list of the top 25 American film scores.
Bernstein’s score has frequently been quoted in the media and popular culture. Starting in 1963, the theme was used in commercials in the U.S. for Marlboro cigarettes for many years.
A similar-sounding (but different) tune was used for Victoria Bitter beer in Australia. The theme was included in a scene of the James Bond film Moonraker.
The Mick Jones 1980s band Big Audio Dynamite covered the song as “Keep off the Grass” (although this cover was not officially released). In 1995, the KLF also did a drum and bass cover of the main title as “The Magnificent“; it was released under the group alias One World Orchestra on the charity compilation The Help Album.
The film opened October 12, 1960 in a thousand theaters across the South and Southwest of the United States.
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Three sequels were eventually made:
Return of the Seven (1966)
Guns of the Magnificent Seven (1969),
and The Magnificent Seven Ride (1972).
Remake of The Magnificient Seven
The film also inspired a television series, The Magnificent Seven, which ran from 1998 to 2000. Robert Vaughn was a recurring guest star, a judge who hires the seven to protect the town in which his widowed daughter-in-law and his grandson live.
The Magnificent Seven (TV series)
| The Magnificent Seven | |
|---|---|
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| Starring | Michael Biehn Eric Close Andrew Kavovit Dale Midkiff Ron Perlman Anthony Starke Rick Worthy |
| Composer(s) | Don Harper |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 22 |
| Production | |
| Running time | 60 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Trilogy Entertainment GroupThe Mirisch Corp.MGM Television |
| Release | |
| Original network | CBS |
| Original release | January 3, 1998 – July 3, 2000 |
The Magnificent Seven is an American western television series based on the 1960 movie, which was itself a remake of the Japanese film Seven Samurai. The series premiered on January 3, 1998, and ran for two seasons on CBS, airing through July 3, 2000. The cast of The Magnificent Seven included Michael Biehn, Eric Close, and Ron Perlman. Robert Vaughn, who played one of the seven gunmen in the original 1960 movie, had a recurring role as a crusading judge on the series.
Season One
Episode 1
Episode 2
https://youtu.be/O_4dWS4kQzo
Episode 3
Season Two
episode 1
https://youtu.be/u1DOcHkeV6A
Episode 2
https://youtu.be/J0B3RA0OsYk
Episode 3
https://youtu.be/28Ju3DrDdOE
Episode 4
Episode 5
https://youtu.be/c7MCO2UisjE
Episode 6
Episode 7
Episode 8
Episode 9
Episode 10
Episode 11
Episode 12
Episode 13
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