Most everyone knows that this rousing, crowd-pleasing Western is a remake of the Japanese classic Seven Samurai. Desperate Mexican farmers hire seven gunmen to handle the bandit problem that has been plaguing their village.

When the vastly outnumbered, ragtag posse (Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, James Coburn, Charles Bronson, et al) is finally assembled, you can start shouting "adios banditos!" Elmer Bernstein's theme music is, well, ...magnificent.


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