The Magnificent Seven (1960)


Yul Brynner             Chris
Eli Wallach             Calvera
Steve McQueen           Vin
Horst Buchholz          Chico
Charles Bronson         O'Reilly
Robert Vaughn           Lee
Brad Dexter             Harry Luck
James Coburn            Britt
Vladimir Sokoloff       Old Man
Rosenda Monteros        Petra
Jorge Martinez De Hoyos Hilario
Whit Bissell            Chamlee

Directed by:            John Sturges
Produced by:            Walter Mirisch, John Sturges, Lou Morheim



A group of seven tough gunslingers are hired by a Mexican village to put a stop to the vicious bandit 
and his gang who have been pillaging it for years.

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A bandit terrorizes a small Mexican farming village each year. Several of the village elders send three 
of the farmers into the United States to search for gunmen to defend them. They end up with 7, each of 
whom comes for a different reason. They must prepare the town to repulse an army of over 100 bandits who 
will arrive wanting food. An Americanization of the film, Shichinin no samurai (1954)

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A remake of "The Seven Samurai." Seven men are picked to guard a Mexican village from Banditos that come 
every now and then to take whatever the town has grown since their last visit. When they are hired, they 
go to the town and teach the villagers how to defend themselves. When the leader of the bandits come, 
they fight him and his men off. the second time he comes the villagers give the seven to them, due to a 
heated argument. The leader of the bandits take their guns and throw them out of town he gives them horses 
and gives their guns back to them when they are far out of town. The seven decide that they aren't going 
to run, and head back to the village for a final showdown.