
Event Details
Yul Brynner plays a gunslinger leading a septet of strangers to defend a Mexican village against marauders in director John Sturges’ classic Western remake of Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai—a remake that itself inspired three sequels, a TV series, and its own 2016 remake. Brynner’s fellow gunslingers include then-rising stars Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson and James Coburn. Elmer Bernstein received his second Oscar nomination for his rousing score, whose classic main theme became arguably his most popular and widely recognized melody.
Academy Museum film programming generously funded by the Richard Roth Foundation.
1960 | 128 min. | USA | Color | Scope | English, Spanish | 4K DCP
DIRECTED BY: John Sturges
WRITTEN BY: William Roberts
WITH: Yul Brynner, Eli Wallach, Steve McQueen, Horst Buchholz