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by John Sturges
, and released in 1960. It is a fictional tale of a group of seven American gunmen who are hired to protect a small agricultural village in Mexico from a group of marauding Mexican bandits. The opening credits state that it is based on The Japanese Film Seven Samurai Toho Company Ltd., a 1954 film by Akira Kurosawa
.
The seven American gunmen were played by Yul Brynner
, Steve McQueen
, Charles Bronson
, James Coburn
, Robert Vaughn
, Brad Dexter
, and Horst Buchholz
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I've been offered a lot for my work, but never everything.
Graveyards are full of boys who are very young and very proud.
Sorry, I'm not in the blessing business.
Once you begin you've got to be ready for killing and more killing, and then still more killing, until the reason for it is gone.
Harry, please don't understand me so fast.
He's a good gun. We aren't going to a church social.
There's no need to apologize. We weren't expecting flowers and speeches.
If he rides in with no idea of the reception we can prepare for him... I promise you, we'll all teach him something about the price of corn.
It's only a matter of knowing how to shoot a gun. Nothing big about that.
I'll tell you what I can do: I can kill the first man who so much as whispers a word about giving up. The very first man, so help me, I'll blow his head off!