History Film / TheMagnificentSeven1960

* CoolGuns: All of the Seven use Colt Single Action Army pistols, usually Artillery models. Calvera uses the Quickdraw model while Vin also carries the Cavalry model. Several of the townspeople also use Colt [=SAAs=] in training.

* MultiEthnicName: Bernardo O'Reilly: "Irish on one side, Mexican on the other, and me in the middle."

An epic 1960 {{Western}} translation of ''Film/SevenSamurai'', directed by Creator/JohnSturges and featuring an AllStarCast that includes Creator/YulBrynner, Creator/EliWallach, [[Creator/SteveMcQueenActor Steve McQueen]], Creator/CharlesBronson, Creator/RobertVaughn, Creator/JamesCoburn, Horst Buchholz, and Brad Dexter.

* NeverBringAKnifeToAGunfight: Britt is challenged to a DuelToTheDeath by a SoreLoser of a speed contest, he effortlessly dispatches the gunslinger with a single lethal throw. [[spoiler:Subverted in the final battle. After running out of bullets. Britt draws his knife, and is shot and killed before he can throw it.]]

Action-packed and boasting an unforgettable music score by Music/ElmerBernstein (by the way, a young Music/JohnWilliams played piano on Bernstein's score), ''The Magnificent Seven'' [[RatedMForManly has so much testosterone that a girl risks getting pregnant just by watching it]]. Numerous film historians call it one of the last great "classical" Westerns (i.e., Westerns prior to the rise of the SpaghettiWestern subgenre).

* WeaponOfChoice: Averted. None of the Seven have specialized weapons except Britt, who is equally adept with a throwing knife as with his gun.

* KnifeNut: Britt's weapon of choice is a throwing knife. His introduction to the audience is him being forced into a face-off against a guy who fancies himself a gunslinger: his gun against Britt's throwing knife. Britt wins. This isn't to say that he's not also a very good marksman with a gun.

* CoolGuns: All of the Seven use Colt Single Action Army pisols, usually Artillery models. Calvera uses the Quickdraw model while Vin also carries the Cavalry model. Several of the townspeople also use Colt [=SAAs=] in training.

* BoomerangBigot: Chico really hates farmers.
** The film lifted this directly from ''Film/SevenSamurai'': the seventh samurai, Kikuchiyo, tries hard to become a samurai and is constantly boasting and showing off — before he tearfully admits that he came from a family of selfish farmers.

* WeaponOfChoice: Averted. None of the Seven have specialized weapons except Britt, who is a KnifeNut. [[spoiler: And Britt is killed in the final battle before he can use a knife, demonstrating the old saying of "Never bring a knife to a gunfight.]]

An epic 1960 {{Western}} translation of ''Film/SevenSamurai'', directed by John Sturges and featuring an AllStarCast that includes Creator/YulBrynner, Creator/EliWallach, [[Creator/SteveMcQueenActor Steve McQueen]], Creator/CharlesBronson, Creator/RobertVaughn, Creator/JamesCoburn, Horst Buchholz, and Brad Dexter.

* BaldOfAwesome: While any role Yul Brynner has played qualifies for this trope, his performance in this film stands out the most.

A [[Film/TheMagnificentSeven2016 remake of the first film]] was released in September 2016, directed by Antoine Fuqua (''Film/TrainingDay'') and with Creator/DenzelWashington, Creator/ChrisPratt, and Creator/EthanHawke heading the cast.

An epic 1960 {{Western}} translation of ''Film/SevenSamurai'', directed by John Sturges and featuring an AllStarCast including Creator/YulBrynner, Creator/EliWallach, [[Creator/SteveMcQueenActor Steve McQueen]], Creator/CharlesBronson, Creator/RobertVaughn, and Creator/JamesCoburn.

Action-packed and featuring an unforgettable music score by Music/ElmerBernstein--by the way, a young Music/JohnWilliams played piano on Bernstein's score--''The Magnificent Seven'' has [[RatedMForManly has so much testosterone that a girl risks getting pregnant just by watching it]]. Numerous film historians call it one of the last great "classical" Westerns (i.e., Westerns prior to the rise of the SpaghettiWestern subgenre).

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[[caption-width-right:300:They fought like seven hundred!]]

''Note: This page covers the film. For the ensemble/plot trope, see TheMagnificentSevenSamurai''.

An epic 1960 {{Western}} translation of ''Film/SevenSamurai'', directed by John Sturges and featuring an AllStarCast including Creator/YulBrynner, [[Creator/SteveMcQueenActor Steve McQueen]], Creator/EliWallach, Creator/CharlesBronson, Creator/RobertVaughn, and Creator/JamesCoburn.

* MohsScaleOfViolenceHardness: It rates a 3, because some small amounts of blood are shown during some of the acts of violence. There's even a relatively early blood squib on [[spoiler:Bernardo O'Reilly]] during the final shootout.

* PayEvilUntoEvil: Subverted rather well. Calvera lets the seven go by taking their weapons and riding them out of town. His justification? An old Mexican quote: "A thief who steals from another thief is pardoned for a hundred years." Of course, he assumed that they were just HiredGuns who'd [[NotSoDifferent skip town the moment they were paid...]] By the end of the film, Calvera finds his assumptions were [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold very]], [[WeHelpTheHelpless very]] [[EvilCannotComprehendGood wrong]].

An epic 1960 {{Western}} translation of ''Film/SevenSamurai'', directed by John Sturges and featuring an AllStarCast including Creator/YulBrynner, Creator/SteveMcQueenActor, Creator/EliWallach, Creator/CharlesBronson, Creator/RobertVaughn, and Creator/JamesCoburn.

* RealityEnsues: Vin, Bernardo, Lee, and Britt are all hit by random shots from off-screen shooters. Their prowess with a gun does them no good.

* PyrrhicVictory: The film lampshades this with the "only the farmers won" speech, just as the original film did.

* {{Deconstruction}}: Lee, of the gunslinger archetype. His sharp eye, fast hands, and take-no-crap attitude has given him... [[ThePerilsOfBeingTheBest a life of jumping at every shadow for fear of the next person to try to take his title]], and paying exorbitant amounts of money to sleep in stables and storehouses because inn-keepers charge a man a lot when he's on the run.

--> '''Calvera''': "What I don't understand is why a man like you took the job in the first place, hmm? Why, huh?"
--> '''Chris''': "I wonder myself".
--> '''Calvera''': "No, come on, come on, tell me why".
--> '''Vin''': "It's like a fellow I once knew in El Paso. One day, he just took all his clothes off and jumped in a mess of cactus. I asked him that same question, "Why?""
--> '''Calvera''': "And?"
--> '''Vin''': "He said, "It seemed to be a good idea at the time.""

* AdaptationTitleChange: ''The Magnificent Seven'' is a Western remake of the Japanese Jidageki film ''The Seven Samurai''.

* RealityEnsues: Vin, Bernardo, Lee, and Britt are all hit by random shots when the bullets are flying, rather than having a dramatic conflict with an opponent. Their prowess with a gun does them no good.