THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN (1960) - ♦♦♦♦

Directed by - John Sturges

Written by - William Roberts

Starring - Yul Brynner, Eli Wallach, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, Robert Vaughn

"A group of Mexicans hire seven gunmen to protect their village from a bandit to whom they keep making involuntary donations. This John Sturges western based on Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai epic is an influential western of its own, as well as one of the most loved in the genre. Apart from the exciting action, it is interesting to see the individual character study, as each man has an individual reason for protecting the inhabitants of the poor village despite the meagre pay, and the seven gunmen’s bond."

Western, USA