---
title: 'The Magnificent Seven (1960)'
type: 'film'
director: 'John Sturges'
released: '1960-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 128
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'Western'
  - 'Action'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-magnificent-seven-1960'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054047/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# The Magnificent Seven (1960)

1960 · 128 min · Drama, Western, Action · United States


## Synopsis

The Magnificent Seven is a 1960 American Western film directed by John Sturges. The screenplay, credited to William Roberts, is a remake – in an Old West-style – of Akira Kurosawa's 1954 Japanese film Seven Samurai. 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 hired to protect a small village in Mexico from a group of marauding bandits led by the ruthless chief Calvera.

## Credits

- **Director:** [John Sturges](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-sturges)
- **Producer:** [John Sturges](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-sturges)
- **Screenplay:** [Akira Kurosawa](https://cinepixo.com/people/akira-kurosawa), [Walter Newman](https://cinepixo.com/people/walter-newman), [Walter Bernstein](https://cinepixo.com/people/walter-bernstein), [William Roberts](https://cinepixo.com/people/william-roberts)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Elmer Bernstein](https://cinepixo.com/people/elmer-bernstein)
- **Director of Photography:** [Charles Lang](https://cinepixo.com/people/charles-lang)
- **Editor:** [Ferris Webster](https://cinepixo.com/people/ferris-webster)

## Cast

- [Eli Wallach](https://cinepixo.com/people/eli-wallach)
- [Enrique Lucero](https://cinepixo.com/people/enrique-lucero)
- [James Coburn](https://cinepixo.com/people/james-coburn)
- [Yul Brynner](https://cinepixo.com/people/yul-brynner) as Chris Adams
- [Whit Bissell](https://cinepixo.com/people/whit-bissell)
- [Bing Russell](https://cinepixo.com/people/bing-russell)
- [Horst Buchholz](https://cinepixo.com/people/horst-buchholz)
- [Brad Dexter](https://cinepixo.com/people/brad-dexter)
- [Fernando Rey](https://cinepixo.com/people/fernando-rey)
- [Jim Davis](https://cinepixo.com/people/jim-davis)
- [Robert Vaughn](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-vaughn)
- [Joseph Ruskin](https://cinepixo.com/people/joseph-ruskin)
- [Victor French](https://cinepixo.com/people/victor-french)
- [John A. Alonzo](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-a-alonzo)
- [Rico Alaniz](https://cinepixo.com/people/rico-alaniz)

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