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'Like a translation of a translation back into the original language, The Magnificent Seven is a Western version of Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai, itself heavily influenced by the Westerns of John Ford. When farmers turn to Brynner for help defending their village, he assembles his band of seven (Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, and James Coburn among them) and they ride out across the widescreen landscape accompanied by Elmer Bernstein's irrepressible theme.' Pacific Film Archive