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  The Magnificent Seven - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Magnificent Seven is a John Sturges western film of 1960, a remake of Shichinin no samurai, better known as The Seven Samurai.
The shot of the seven gunfighters striding toward the camera is one of the most often-copied shots in cinematic history, appearing in such diverse films as The Right Stuff and Monsters, Inc. (which also starred James Coburn), and the opening sequence of the animated Justice League.
However, of the seven main stars of the film, they were the first to die in real life: Brynner died of lung cancer on October 10, 1985, McQueen also died of lung cancer on November 7, 1980.
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 7Samurai
The Magnificent Seven is the Hollywood version of the same film this time directed by John Sturges and the setting is a village in Mexico with hired guns instead of swords.
Seven Samurai is about a small farmer village that is raided periodically by "the brigands." The village has finally had enough of the stolen food and women and seeks a solution.
In Seven Samurai the young one is trying to learn what he can from the leader, he is also caught coming out of a hut with the girl, presumable after having intercourse with her, she publicly is ridiculed by her father who is ashamed.
www3.baylor.edu /~Brooks_Grigson/papers/7Samurai.html   (2227 words)

  
 Magnificent Seven - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The Magnificent Seven, London are seven cemeteries used by the citizens of nineteenth century London
The Magnificent Seven is the title of a classic western film of 1960.
The Magnificent Seven is the title of a 1998 TV Series based on the 1960 movie.
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 DVD Review - The Magnificent Seven   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
I never thought I’d see the day that "The Magnificent Seven" would arrive on DVD as a full-blown special edition sporting a decent widescreen transfer and both newly remixed 5.1 and original mono soundtracks.
The "Magnificent Seven Theme" is an immediately recognizable piece of music and I can’t think of a Western made since that hasn’t liberally borrowed from its themes.
MGM is advertising "The Magnificent Seven" as a special edition and by golly it is. First up is an audio commentary track featuring producer Walter Mirisch, assistant director Robert Relyea, Eli Wallach, and James Coburn.
www.dvdreview.com /fullreviews/the_magnificent_seven.shtml   (1648 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Magnificent Seven (Two-Disc Collector's Edition): DVD: Yul Brynner,Eli Wallach,Steve McQueen,Brad ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Seven gunmen fight like seven hundred as they take on an army of bandits in this stunning, celebrated masterpiece that launched careers and set new standards of excellence for the genre.
I believe it is the nature of the seven gunfighters, their motives for that one chance at gallantry and redemption.
He was the least noble of the seven and died the mercenary that he was, yet there is some nobility to one's profession in that.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000BX0VRI?v=glance   (3536 words)

  
 THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN
That being said, this tale of seven cowboys begins in a small Texas town where Chris (Brynner) and Vin (McQueen) defy the prevailing local attitude by driving a hearse carrying a dead Indian up to the town's graveyard.
Both men are pretty confident in their gunslinging abilities and believe a righteous man has the right to be buried regardless of his race.
In an unexpected turnabout the seven find themselves on the defensive with the choice of whether to abandon the village or take a final stand and potentially lose their lives.
crazy4cinema.com /Review/FilmsM/f_mag_seven.html   (1046 words)

  
 Financial Sense Univ. ~ The Magnificent Seven - Part 1 by Stephen Rinehart 07.15.2004
The Magnificent Seven are the fastest “gunslingers” in the world and each brings his special talents to the “financial village”.
This is an old and balding cycle that comes from the bondlands of the East and is the “biggest of the bad.” The leader of the Sevens that determines when the gunslingers arrive on the scene to fight the bandits who raid the village.
The Magnificent Seven are not heroes or villains – they are looking for a job that will get them their next meal ticket and as they come together again to ride into that “village” let us see if we can catch a glimpse of them from the past.
www.financialsense.com /fsu/editorials/rinehart/2004/0715.html   (1402 words)

  
 The Magnificent Seven (1960)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
SEVEN is one of the better Westerns to come out for the aging genre.
Since the authorities do nothing, the farmers enlist the aid of seven gunmen to solve their problem.
Compared to THE SEVEN SAMURAI, I would have to say MAGNIFICENT is less dark and reflective.
www.imdb.com /title/tt0054047   (475 words)

  
 Movie Database - tvguide.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Nevertheless THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN is an excellent film and deserves the accolades it has received through the years.
The Seven train the fearful townspeople to fight alongside them and set a trap for the wily Wallach and his group.
Perhaps the ultimate testimony to the excellence of THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN is the sword that Kurosawa presented to Sturges after seeing the film.
online.tvguide.com /movies/database/Movie-Review.asp?MI=5826   (390 words)

  
 Magnificent Seven, The - More Details And Cover Art for Magnificent DVDs!
Learning from each other and forming their own code of ethics, The Magnificent Seven vow to defeat the outlaws of the West and gain the respect of the common folk.
The seven men include their embittered leader, a former gun-for-hire seeking redemption; a sharpshooter and bounty hunter; a former slave who becomes a healer; a young and cocky Eastern-bred idealist; a smooth-talking con-artist; a womanizing gunslinger; and a former priest turned eccentric prophet.
The Seven courageously defend the village from the pillaging soldiers in this electrifying double-length series premiere.
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 Images - 30 Great Westerns
he Magnificent Seven (1960) appears at a crossroads in the Western and reflects changes that were occurring in the genre--as well as likely influencing further developments.
Director John Sturges made The Magnificent Seven in between his two Earp-Holliday films, Gunfight at the OK Corral and Hour of the Gun, expanding his portrayal of an uneasy friendship to this brotherhood of misfits.
The Seven are magnificent as much for their ability to inspire as for their courage and ability with a gun.
www.imagesjournal.com /issue10/infocus/magnificentseven.htm   (678 words)

  
 DVD Review: The Magnificent Seven - The Complete First Season
Although the Biehn and Close characters are similar to the original seven, the rest of the group is a new batch of heroes.
The Magnificent Seven is one of the best westerns ever made, and the television series does a good job of living up to the spirit and style of the classic film.
The Magnificent Seven — The Complete First Season is available for pre-order at Amazon for a Dec. 6th release.
dvd.monstersandcritics.com /reviews/article_10526.php/DVD_Review_The_Magnificent_Seven_-_The_Complete_First_Season   (1215 words)

  
 Ireland's OWN: History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
1972 witnessed one of the most difficult and daring escapes by Irish republican Prisoners of War, when a group of prisoners, subsequently dubbed the 'Magnificent Seven', captured news headlines at home and abroad with their escape from the Maidstone prison ship.
The Maidstone, overcrowded with hundreds of nationalist men interned without trial by the British, had been anchored for some time in Belfast Lough and was reputedly escape proof.
Three of the Magnificent Seven — Jim Bryson, Thomas 'Tucker Kane' and Tommy 'Toddler' Tolan — were all subsequently killed while on active service with the IRA.
irelandsown.net /magnificent.html   (554 words)

  
 Elmer Bernstein - The Magnificent Seven
Showing the universality of these ideals, The Magnificent Seven was adapted from the Japanese film "The Seven Samurai" and immediately struck a chord with audiences of the day.
Elmer Bernstein also struck all the right chords on the soundtrack, producing a dynamic score full of energy which heightened all the archetypal elements of the story, going beyond the bare plot points to depict the universality of the struggle of good against evil.
With Strange Funeral/After the Brawl we are introduced to Chris (played by Yul Brynner) alongside the Magnificent Seven theme, and mark the conclusion to the first stage of the search.
www.mfiles.co.uk /reviews/the-magnificent-seven.htm   (815 words)

  
 The Magnificent Seven   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The Magnificent Seven television series first aired as a midseason replacement on CBS in January 1998.
The Magnificent Seven series continues the saga with the adventures of the seven courageous men who fearlessly defend the lawless frontier of the Old West.
The seven men include their embittered leader, a former gun-for-hire seeking redemption (Michael Biehn of The Terminator); a sharpshooter and bounty hunter; a former slave; a young and cocky Eastern-bred idealist; a smooth-talking con-artist; a former priest turned eccentric prophet; and a hard-drinking womanizing Irishman who specializes in explosives.
www.public.asu.edu /~kheenan/west/magseven.htm   (212 words)

  
 The Magnificent Seven   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
When the seven get there, the village people are hiding, and they call them cowards.
Calvera is fully equipped, and he is prepared to launch all of his men into the town and take on the seven.
The set of "The Magnificent Seven" was filled with jealousy over Yul Brynner, because he had won the Oscar for Best Actor the year before for his work in "The King and I".
www.deadrabbit.org /movievault/super7.htm   (683 words)

  
 Movie Info for The Magnificent Seven on MSN Movies
Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa's The Seven Samurai (1954) is westernized as The Magnificent Seven.
The remaining "magnificent six" are played by Charles Bronson, Steve McQueen, Horst Buchholz, Robert Vaughn, James Coburn, and (the one that everybody forgets) Brad Dexter.
The Magnificent Seven was followed by three sequels, not to mention dozens of imitations.
entertainment.msn.com /Movies/Movie.aspx?movie=397401&m=397401   (221 words)

  
 The Magnificent Seven (1960)
In retrospect the Western genre and The Magnificent Seven were made for one another.
The Magnificent Seven can't decide how to handle the bad guys, so it takes the middle (and worst route); instead of leaving them as ciphers, an almost elemental force, it gives them faces but no substance.
The Magnificent Seven lacks the brooding, oppressive atmosphere of the original, so much so that we barely mourn for those slain in the climatic battle.
www.film.u-net.com /Movies/Reviews/Magnificent_Seven.html   (723 words)

  
 Cinemaphilia.com - The Magnificent Seven DVD, reviewed   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The Magnificent Seven is know primarily because it is a remake of Kurosawa's acknowledged masterpice The Seven Samurai.
The Magnificent Seven is on one hand an adventure yarn pitting seven hired gunmen against a band of bandits who look to rob a Mexican village of all their food.
The documentary on The Magnificent Seven DVD is better than most current documentaries but not as good as it could have been.
www.cinemaphilia.com /reviews/dvds/tim_magsevenDVD.html   (1190 words)

  
 The Magnificent Seven - Movie Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The Magnificent Seven isn’t a great movie, but it is a very cool movie.
These seven men stay at the village for weeks, teaching the villagers how to fight, while preparing the town for the bandits’ arrival.
There’s a lot of fun in The Magnificent Seven — gun fights, McQueen and Coburn’s easy confidence, a boatload of great lines (“Do you have an older, grateful sister at home?”), Vaughn dressed like a dandy fop at a costume party.
www.contactmusic.com /new/film.nsf/reviews/themagnificentseven   (555 words)

  
 CNN - Resurrected 'Magnificent Seven' hopes to be big hit - February 27, 1998   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Like the movie classic, the television drama features a group of seven men who are committed to justice at all costs.
Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, and Robert Vaughn were among the seven heroes who rode onto the screen in the 1960 MGM film, produced by Walter Mirisch.
A bunch of guys who are basically outside the law, hired to help people within the general framework of the law," Vaughn told CNN about the series.
www.cnn.com /SHOWBIZ/9802/27/magnificent.seven   (393 words)

  
 DVD Savant Review: The Magnificent Seven
John Carpenter said it straight: The Magnificent Seven is neither the best nor the most meaningful of the great Westerns, but it's possibly the most fun.
This fairy tale of mercenary killers being elevated and transformed by a noble cause is not an outgrowth of the 'adult psychological' western of the '50s, but a new kind of western where history (even John Ford's history) is irrelevant, and the trappings of style and affectation are all.
The Magnificent Seven is extremely well directed by John Sturges, an 'outdoor' director adept at keeping his heroes laconic and cool.
www.dvdtalk.com /dvdsavant/s247mag7.html   (1619 words)

  
 The Magnificent Seven tumbles again
And she was among those who got to see that Magnificent Seven (minus one) in a rare group appearance last weekend.
Five of the seven were in Tempe, Ariz., to support a sixth: Cincinnati's Amanda Borden, who was opening her new Gold Medal Gymnastics Academy.
"We've watched the video of the Magnificent Seven and their lives and what it took for them to get where they are," said Kaitlyn's mother, Kim O'Nan.
www.enquirer.com /editions/2004/05/27/spt_Olympics27.html   (348 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: The Magnificent Seven [1960]: DVD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
But on the other hand, in order to rattle along at a suitably action-packed pace the film lacks sufficent characterisation and plot development to lift it out of the best of the rest category and into the all time greats (of the genre, that is).
At its heart, Seven was a vehicle for six rising Hollywood stars and the established star, Yul Bryner.
The direction is great and catches the essence of Seven Samurai brilliantly, the characters, the story and the strugglef of so few against so many.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005J9P4   (2011 words)

  
 The Magnificent Seven
Drummer Boy -- JD Dunne, drummer of the Magnificent Seven, has a bit of a secret....
Ordeal -- The reason for one of JD's fears is explained when the Seven land in the wrong place at entirely the wrong time.
Twisted Glass -- The Seven land in a world where Sarah is alive, Buck is a woman -- and Ezra isn't a Standish.
www.enolasrealm.com /mag7fic.htm   (943 words)

  
 Magnificent Seven, The - CBS's The Magnificent Seven Rides to DVD This December!
Magnificent Seven, The - CBS's The Magnificent Seven Rides to DVD This December!
Based on the classic Western film, the first of two seasons had 9 episodes (including the double-length pilot), and that is what's coming to DVD on December 6th.
Stay tuned and we'll bring you more info about The Magnificent Seven - The Complete 1st Season just as soon as the studio makes the details available.
www.tvshowsondvd.com /newsitem.cfm?NewsID=4182   (170 words)

  
 Tribute to The Magnificent Seven
This page was orginally intended as a tribute to the stories of the MGM television series, The Magnificent Seven, and to its seven heroes, who flickered "once upon a time" after the Civil War in a town with no name, somewhere among the Ghost towns of the American Southwest.
As a result, The Magnificent Seven is not currently in rotation on any U.S. cable station at the moment, though it continues to garner a loyal, loving, following as it staggers around the globe.
The fact that the twenty-two-story legacy of The Magnificent Seven" is alive, well, and prolific in the thousands of stories, writers and readers it continues to inspire every day--long after the ashes of most other cancelled television shows have been relegated to dust--speaks to its overwhelming resonance.
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 SoundtrackNet : The Magnificent Seven   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
It's score, also by Elmer Berstein, elaborates on many of the themes established in the first film, and was handily released earlier this year by Ryko, in stereo.
For tin ears, the 1994 re-recording of the original Magnificent Seven on Koch is nicely recorded in stereo, and compares nicely, cue for cue with this release (with out the Hallelujah Trail suite on the end).
However, for the sake of having the original as it appeared in with the film, paced as it was for the brilliantly photographed film, this release, by far is one of the best of Ryko's new re-issues.
www.soundtrack.net /soundtracks/database?id=1625   (528 words)

  
 The Magnificent Seven
A group of, you guessed it, seven gun-toting cowboys ride into a series of post-Civil-War towns and defend the helpless.
The Seven Samurai (1954) - Director: Akira Kurosawa Cast: Toshiro Mifune and Takashi Shimura The Western of the East.
Magnificent time to exercise: Seven men who carry lots of weight.(Metropolitan Times)(Life Times)
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