The Magnificent Seven is one of the English language titles for the Akira Kurosawa film Shichinin no samurai (1954), also called The Seven Samurai.
The Magnificent Seven is a John Sturges western film of 1960, a remake of Shichinin no samurai starring:
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The movie's famous theme tune was by Elmer Bernstein, later being reused for the Marlboro-commercials. The score was nominated for an Academy Award in 1961.
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., and the opening sequence of the animated Justice League.
The film's success inspired three sequels: Return of the Seven (1966); Guns of the Magnificent Seven (1969) and The Magnificent Seven Ride! (1972), but none were as successful as the original film.
The movie has also inspired a television series (The Magnificent Seven, 1998), and a parody in which a poor Mexican village hires three Western actors to protect their village from bandits (¡Three Amigos!, 1986, starring Chevy Chase, Steve Martin, and Martin Short).
In Westworld, Yul Brynner played an android impersonating his black-dressed gunfighter role as "Chris Adams".
It also inspired the Kazakh film Wild East .
There have also been adaptations of the film's plot, notably in a German Karl May movie called "Thunder at the Border" (Winnetou und sein Freund Old Firehand) (1966), and in the science fiction movie "Battle Beyond the Stars" (1980), in which Robert Vaughn reprised his role from The Magnificent Seven.
With the death of Charles Bronson on August 30, 2003, Robert Vaughn (Lee) is the only survivor of the seven actors who played the title characters.
