In , The Magnificent Seven rode its way into cinemas. The American Western, about a group of seven gunfighters hired to protect a Mexican village from bandits, was a big hit in Europe not so much in the US and led to a series of sequels.
To date, there are five Magnificent Seven movies. The Magnificent Seven movies — which were produced between and — include:. The Magnificent Seven is a remake of the original film. The cast of the Urban Legend films varies across the five movies. The Magnificent Seven films are the work of multiple directors. The Magnificent Seven is generally considered to be the strongest film in the collection. The boxset includes four movies, in a neatly designed case, which keeps the films looking uniform on any book shelf.
I hope this information about The Magnificent Seven film series has proved useful. Composer John Williams was a member of the orchestra that recorded Elmer Bernstein 's score; he played the piano. Eli Wallach wore a silk shirt and sported gold rings and teeth because he "wanted to show what the bandit did with his loot. Mexican censors required the peasants to always be wearing clean clothes, despite being farmers.
This caused a huge delay since it meant that dozens of intentionally dirty costumes had to be thoroughly cleaned before filming could commence. Steve McQueen wanted to act in this film but couldn't at first because the schedule of his TV series, Wanted: Dead or Alive , wouldn't allow it. He crashed a car and while he was "out sick", he shot this film. Sterling Hayden was originally supposed to play the knife expert, Britt. Hayden dropped out for unknown reasons, so John Sturges sent out an extensive casting call.
Robert Vaughn Lee recommended his old schoolmate and friend James Coburn for the role. Vaughn and Coburn helped each other get roles throughout the rest of Coburn's life. Pay close attention to Eli Wallach whenever he handles his gun. Whenever he puts the gun back into his holster, he always looks down at it. That was because Wallach wasn't used to drawing the weapon and didn't want to look foolish by missing the holster while putting his gun back, as Wallach would admit in the DVD Documentary.
Yul Brynner was married on the set; the celebration used many of the same props as the fiesta scene. The horse that Yul Brynner was riding was Pie, the same one that James Stewart rode in all or most of his westerns. It was found while researching Stewart's horse. Although they were close friends for almost 50 years, this is their only film together. Steve McQueen tried to draw attention from Yul Brynner by taking off his hat to shade his eyes as he looks around just before they drive the hearse to the graveyard and bending down from his saddle to dip water with his hat as the whole crew crosses a stream.
Finally Brynner said to him, "If you don't stop that I'm going to take off my hat, and then no one will look at you for the rest of the film. Horst Buchholz Chico accidentally shot himself in the leg on set.
Though his gun was loaded with blanks, the shot raised a welt. This film had just been released in Germany while the next film was shooting, and it was a big hit, so they were all besieged on set by autograph hunters. When filming began in Mexico, problems arose with the local censors, who demanded changes to the ways that the Mexican villagers would be portrayed. Walter Newman , who had written the screenplay, was asked to travel to the location to make the necessary script revisions, but refused.
The changes written in by William Roberts were deemed significant enough to merit him a co-writing credit. Newman refused to share the credit, though, and had his name removed from the film entirely.
Elmer Bernstein , whose score for this movie is one of the best-known ever composed, also wrote the score for the parody of this film, Three Amigos! When Vin takes off his hat before Chris starts the horses pulling the hearse, he is actually checking for the presence of wind and from what direction. Although at short distances a coach shotgun is effective, wind is less of a factor than it would be with weapons that had greater range; still, the move was a calculated one by Steve McQueen in his frequent efforts to steal the scene.
Filming took place in Mexico at a time when the country did not take kindly to Hollywood productions due to the controversy surrounding Vera Cruz It was agreed that they could shoot there as long as Mexican censors were allowed on set to dictate what could and couldn't be shown, so as to avoid another disaster. Robert Vaughn Lee was the last surviving member of the Magnificent Seven.
Eli Wallach recalled struggling to conceal his amusement while watching the filming of the funeral-procession scene where Chris and Vin first meet: Yul Brynner was furious at Steve McQueen 's shotgun-round-shake, which effectively diverted the viewer's attention to McQueen. Brynner refused to draw his gun in the same scene with McQueen, not wanting his character outdrawn. Chico's "bullfight" scene was improvised. Someone found a cow and the filmmakers decided to put it in a scene with Horst Buchholz to see if he would take it and run with it.
He shouldn't have a gun like that. It's too fancy. Nobody's gonna look at anything else with that gun in the picture". McQueen also complained about the size of Brynner's horse, mostly that it was the biggest.
Vaughn replied that he--Vaughn--actually had the biggest horse. The film was cast quickly to beat an actor's strike. The only chance of getting the movie made was to assemble the main cast before the strike began, so there was a furious rush to get seven actors together. The cast was just barely assembled in time. The film was a box-office failure in the US, but went on to be a smash hit in Europe, and ultimately turned a profit.
Yul Brynner Chris was the only actor to reprise his role in Return of the Seven Crazy credits And Introducing Horst Buchholz. Alternate versions The German theatrical release differs from the German VHS video in the scene where the magnificent seven have been taken by surprise and have to put down their weapons on the table. Chico is the last one and stands in enragement.
In the theatrical version he then nevertheless unstraps his belt like the others. Chris takes his gun and puts it on desk. Then Chico unstraps his belt. Connections Featured in Precious Images User reviews Review. Top review. Interesting differences from the Japanese version. I've seen both the American and Japanese versions many times, and while everyone agrees about which one is better, the American version has some virtues: 1 Our heroes are selected by the farmers when they defend a dead Indian's right to be buried in the same place as white people; therefore they are seen as champions of social and racial equality by the farmers.
And some tremendous faults: 1 Combining the Young Student and Crazy Fool characters; some of the most poignant scenes in the Japanese version involved the interaction between these two. And of course many more of each. It's an interesting discussion. Both are great movies that shouldn't be missed. Remember that Kurosawa gave John Sturges a sword in appreciation after seeing his film. Sleepy Feb 14, Details Edit. Release date October 12, United States. United States. In addition, Robert Vaughn, who also had a role in the original movie, was added to The A-Team cast in the show?
The pilot episode of The A-Team literally copies the plot of The Magnificent Seven lock, stock and barrel, as it has the team helping to defend a group of farmers from a bunch of bikers. The creators of the show always maintained that it was an updated version of The Magnificent Seven , with the cowboys changed to soldiers of fortune, and with only four main characters instead of the seven from the movie.
Believe it or not, horror writer Stephen King wrote a novel in that is based on The Magnificent Seven. In the story, gunslinger and protagonist Roland Deschain defends a small village from a raiding party that steals children once a generation.
Calla Bryn Sturgis,? The similarity to The Magnificent Seven is directly referenced, and leads Roland and his allies from 20th century New York to realize, partway through the book, that they are actually taking part in a similar story.
The novel also includes the line? Mister, we deal in lead,? The score and soundtrack for The Magnificent Seven is widely considered to be one of the best in movie history, and certainly the very best ever for a western movie. Created by legendary composer Elmer Bernstein, the score was actually nominated for an Academy Award, the only one the film would garner it lost to the movie Exodus. In addition, the score has kind of taken on a life of its own in recent years.
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