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The Magnificent Seven (1960)

★ 7.5 · 1,972 ratings on TMDB

They were seven…and they fought like seven hundred!

The Magnificent Seven poster★ 7.5

An oppressed Mexican peasant village hires seven gunfighters to help defend their homes.

DirectorJohn Sturges
CastBrad Dexter, Charles Bronson, Eli Wallach, Horst Buchholz, James Coburn, Jorge Martínez de Hoyos
GenresAction, Adventure, Western
The emergence reading

The Magnificent Seven keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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