The magnificent seven series#

Taking their few objects of value, three villagers ride to a town just inside the United States border hoping to barter for weapons. On the advice of the village elder, they decide to fight back.

After the latest raid, during which Calvera kills a villager, the village leaders decide they have had enough. Plot Ī gang of bandits led by Calvera periodically raids a poor Mexican village for food and supplies. 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'. Elmer Bernstein's film score was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Score and is listed on the American Film Institute's list of the top 25 American film scores.

The magnificent seven series#

It spawned three sequels, a television series that aired from 1998 to 2000, and a 2016 film remake. It was both a critical and commercial success and has been appraised as one of the greatest films of the Western genre. The film was released by United Artists on October 12, 1960. The seven title characters are hired to protect a small village in Mexico from a group of marauding bandits led by Wallach. The ensemble cast includes Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, Robert Vaughn, Brad Dexter, James Coburn, and Horst Buchholz as a group of seven gunfighters and Eli Wallach as their main antagonist. The screenplay by William Roberts is a remake – in an Old West–style – of Akira Kurosawa's 1954 Japanese film Seven Samurai (itself initially released in the United States as The Magnificent Seven). The Magnificent Seven is a 1960 American Western film directed by John Sturges.