The Magnificent Seven

I grew up with four brothers, two older and two younger. We all loved this movie. In those days, movies were shown on Saturday or Sunday nights, and our parents would let us stay up to watch with them. Like Wizard of Oz, I watched it whenever it was on. I love that I can watch now. My two big brothers are gone now; watching this movie brings back cherished memories.

This classic Western movie has everything that movies today lack. Original plot, excellent actors and acting, good action.

I like everything about this movie. Wonderful show. No commercials.

Can't go wrong with seeing this classic movie. Music score & sound are excellent!

It’s an old movie great for its time. Good acting

Arrived on time brand new, played perfect

I loved this movie when I saw it decades ago and I loved it this time. It was fun to see Charles Bronson, Yul Brynner and the other fellows again.

I saw this movie, first run, in 1960, in one of my neighborhood theaters...a theater that had an uncanny taste in good movies! And to this day, I'm still spellbound by the fantastic music, the casting, especially of Yul Brynner as the head honcho, and the overall dramatic effect of this landmark film."The Magnificent Seven" started out as a remake of "The Seven Samurai" by Akira Kurasawa, a fact just about everybody who's ever Googled IMDB or read a film history article knows by heart. What you might not have known is that Yul Brynner owned the rights to make it into a western! Brynner, in fact, was slated to direct, at one point, but they got John Sturges instead. Anthony Quinn was originally slated to play Chris, Brynner's character. I really couldn't imagine this movie without Brynner playing Chris, and I thank the gods of fate manipulation that it didn't happen that way.You all know the story, right? Chris rides around the border area searching for gunfighters to help him protect a Mexican village from a menacing group of bandits, led by Eli Wallach (Calveras), and meets up with Steve McQueen as Vin, James Coburn as Britt, Robert Vaughn as Lee, Charles Bronson as O'Reilly, Horst Bucholz as Rico and Brad Dexter as Harry. All these guys are good, with the possible exception of Robert Vaughn, who, it turns out, is the only surviving "hero" from the movie. His character, apparently, was shell-shocked from earlier gunfights, and is fighting demons of cowardice and inadequacy. There was always a character like this in just about every "important" drama of this era and the performances were almost always over the top, and thank Gawd Vaughn's is kept to a minimum. His presence in anything made after "The Man From U.N.C.L.E" was canceled was almost always a sure sign that the movie was a bomb. The man looks like John Derek designed by Al Hirschfeld...Horst Bucholz, who made an international career out of playing Holden Caulfields, does his hotheaded young guy thing here in his inimtable style. Though German, Bucholz only once portrayed a German in any movies of his released here! In "One Hour To Rama", a movie about Gandhi's assassin, he plays a Hindu, sick and tired of British rule. In this film, he plays a young hispanic fellow who wants to join the gaggle of older men to fight the banditos. This he does, while making a fool out of himself when drunk but acquitting himself when he's sober and the chips are down. He's also the one who makes any kind of time with the young ladies of the village.Steve McQueen does his laconic thing, with baleful stares and not much dialogue, and some of the most pointed finger counting you've ever seen as he is Brynner's first, helping to recruit the other fighters. Coburn, who, back then was often mixed up with McQueen by audiences because of their striking visual similarities, plays the knife-wielding expert, who's just as fast with a gun, named Britt. He gets almost NO lines in the film, but one of the most quoted scenes from the film, where Bucholz's Rico is amazed at a shot he made, shooting a bandito off a horse, is one that everybody remembers. As with Flint, he modestly tells Rico that he was aiming "for the horse".Bronson's O'Reilly becomes a favorite of three village boys, as he is the one who teaches the village men how to shoot rifles. And then there's Brynner's Chris. As Chris, Brynner gets all the good lines in the movie...all the philosophical lines, all the good comedic lines, which McQueen or Wallach often set up for him, and nobody has the walk he has...not John Wayne, not Jim Arness, not Alan Ladd, not anybody....If you remember there being a lot more of the score in this movie when you saw it in the theater, you're not alone. I found myself wanting to hear the main refrain played as often as possible and cursed the fact that the movie wasn't shot in glorious stereo, as this score was made for it!One of the things that made this movie so great is the easy camaraderie between the gunslingers as they band together to help the lowly villagers. They exchange sly jokes and the stories of their lives, (or whatever they want to reveal of them,) and if more of them had survived, they would have probably become lifelong friends, but in the end, only two remained...and watching them ride off into the sunset beats Brandon De Wilde calling out to Shane any day of the week!A true classic.

Soy fan de los clásicos de la historia del cine, y cuando supe que Shout Factory había restaurado "The Magnificent Seven" en formato 4K Ultra HD, la compré de inmediato.Se ve espectacular, mejor que nunca, con una calidad de imagen fuera de serie. Llegó rápido y en perfectas condiciones, lo mejor es que si traía el Slipcover de colección, el único inconveniente de esta edicion 4K Ultra HD es que no trae Doblaje ni subtitulos en español, solo en inglés.

Without question, it is one of the greatest Westerns and films ever made. I, despite being such a massive fan of Westerns, embarrassingly have never seen it before now. In my defence, there is a frustrating trend of great classics not being aired on regular television anymore, other than maybe genre channels, and streaming services have only slightly improved this issue. Alas, I'm not a fan of streaming, so when I got the email that Shout! was releasing a newly restored version, I saw my chance.The film is beautifully shot, which blends wonderfully with the fantastic music by Elmer Bernstein. I've been in love with his theme for this picture for most of my life, even if I hadn't seen the film. The story has great messages of resilience and camaraderie, with unique and memorable characters, though only Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, Eli Wallach, and Horst Buchholz's characters, as well as several of the Mexican villagers, have defined and explored personas. That is the nature of films of this age and genre, as well as the natural cost of having such a large cast. That being said, I may be asking for too much, as I've fallen back in love with reading, and greatly appreciate the freedom to explore characters thoroughly.What is explored are subjects that have completely left cinema and storytelling for a long time. I don't want to spoil it here, though what I can say is there is a subversion that actually works, going in a direction that has not been ventured in what feels like forever. The classic archetypes are here as well, which feels so refreshing to see—again, missing from modern storytelling.Shout!, as always, did a wonderful job in their inclusion of special features, which they seem to be the leaders in, especially given it has now fallen out of favour in modern releases. I own no less than 15 releases from Shout! (not including this latest addition), and while they command a higher price tag, they are worth every penny by going above and beyond. The only thing that's disappointing is the lack of extra dubbing and subbing. I recently bought Rio Bravo on blu-ray, and it has extra audio tracks, as well as subtitles. I understand that if there aren't any dubs, then having to cast and record new ones would be expensive, but given how popular the film was in Europe, I would imagine those tracks would be easy enough to come by. If not, then subtitles, while tedious, would be inexpensive. A small flaw, but one that irks me, as my father loves Westerns, and would have enjoyed being able to watch it in Italian.That being said, this is a truly great release for one of the most culturally significant films, if not one of the greatest films, ever made. For many years I had heard that the film was a remake of the Kurosawa "Seven Samurai" movie, which I dismissed, thinking it was just another one of these attempts to delegitimize Western stories. Even if the documentary was not included on this blu-ray, it was VERY clear that it was a remake, as I had seen "Seven Samurai" first while at college. I was pleased to learn that Kurosawa was inspired by American Westerns when he made "Seven Samurai", and he was very humbled and pleased by "The Magnificent Seven". No greater complement indeed.I'm very happy to finally have this in my collection. I can only hope more people buy this, not only to enjoy the best of what Westerns have to offer, but so that Shout! get the message to release more classic Westerns. If they do to Westerns what they've done for Horror, then we are golden.TLDR: Great movie. Great rerelease. Saddle up, pilgrim.

This is a classic forever film. Epic actors, storyline, filmatography and direction. I can and do watch this film repeatedly. There's a very peurile and inferior imitation re-make disaster. There's no way to adequately imitate the original film.

J'ai acheté ce film pour mes parents ils sont ravis de l'avoir retrouvé en si bonne qualité

不思議なことに、アメリカでは、1950年代西部劇映画は人気がなかったという。(日本でも時代劇映画・ドラマがすたれているのに似ている)。ジョン・フォード監督・ジョン・ウェイン主演の作品がそうだ。しかし日本では、黒澤明監督は熱心にそれらを見ていたという。この映画は、ハリウッド映画スタッフがストライキを起こしていた1960年、アメリカ=メキシコ合作として、メキシコで撮影された。オープニングロールには、「七人の侍」の脚本を買った、と書いてある。(250ドルだそうだ)。ユル・ブリンナーも、ジョン・スタージェス監督も、西部劇にふさわしいと確信したからだそうだ。初め、アメリカではヒットせず、ヨーロッパで大ヒットし、ふたたびアメリカで大ヒット、映画で全四作、テレビシリーズ20回と作られた。初回のこの作品は、エルマー・バーンスタインの音楽、配役、すべてで飛び抜けている傑作だ。同じスタッフで作られた「大脱走」もすばらしい。日本=アメリカ合作で映画を作ると「ラスト・サムライ」となってしまうから、じつに残念だ。