The Magnificent Seven

Image Not Available Director: John Sturges Dvd Release: 25th June, 2001 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: Anamorphic, PAL, Special Edition, Widescreen, Region 2 Encoding

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The Magnificent Seven is one of the English language titles for the Akira Kurosawa film Shichinin no samurai, also called The Seven Samurai. vs. The movies famous theme tune was by Elmer Bernstein, later being reused for the Marlboro-commercials. The score was nominated for an Oscar in 1961. The shot of the seven gunfighters striding toward the camera is one of the most oft-copied shots in cinematic history, appearing in such diverse films as The Right Stuff & Monsters, Inc. & the opening sequence of the animated Justice League. There were three sequels - Return of the Seven - Guns of the Magnificent Seven & The Magnificent Seven Ride!, but all three were not as successful. The movie has also inspired a television series & a parody in which a poor Mexican village hires three Western actors to protect their village from bandits. In Westworld, Yul Bryner played an android impersonating his black-dressed gunfighter role as Chris Adams. It also inspired the Kazakh film Wild East.

John Eliot Sturges Known as The dean of big-budget action movies made during the 1950s & 1960. Sturges movies include The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape, Gunfight at the O,K. Corral, Ice Station Zebra & Marooned. He started in Hollywood in 1932 as an editor. In World War II he started directing documentaries & training films for the US Army Air Corps. Sturges mainstream directorial career began in 1946 with The Man Who Dared the first of many grade-B movies. He then use widescreen CinemaScope format imaginatively by placing Spencer Tracy all alone against a vast desert panorama in the suspense Bad Day at Black Rock. Posters Of The Great Escape

Editors Choice: Chino, The Eagle Has Landed, Marooned, Joe Kidd, The Great Escape, The Hallelujah Trail, The Magnificent Seven, Thunderbolt, View DVDology

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