} A Glorious Seven is one of a English language titles for the Akira Kurosawa film Shichinin no samurai (1954), also known as A Seven Samurai.

A Brilliant Seven occurs as John Sturges western film of 1960, a remaking of Shichinin there is no samurai starring:

Yul Brynner (Chris Adams) Steve McQueen (Vin) Charles Bronson (Bernardo O'Reilly) James Coburn (Britt) Horst Buchholz (Chico) Brad Dexter (Harry Luck) Robert Vaughn (Lee) vs. Eli Wallach (Calvera) and his Forty bandits

A original film The Seven Samurai was released within 2 different cuts. Of these was the 3-&-half-hour version freed within international markets. A Our contries release, even so, was edited down to single 2-&-of these-half hours, & retitled A Glorious Seven. Whenever this remaking was freed, a original reverted back to its original title.

Despite existence modeled on a emended version of the original film, this remaking preserves the crucial scenes & themes of the original, sustaining two or three alterations.

Notable changes include:

around the correct sequence to benefit permission to film in Mexico, changes experienced to become manufactured to make a point that Mexicans were portrayed favourably. In a original, a village patriarch tells his scouts specifically to hire samurai to defend the village. This was originally to keep around been carried above, however a Mexican government thought it mass produced it come out that Mexicans were unable to defend themselves. therefore, it was changed so that a patriarch tells a scouts to choose weapons. These are upon their number one meeting by using Chris that he tells the children it might require hired guns. When in a original, a hired guns teach the villagers training defend themselves too.

a scene where a villagers capture so torture to demise one of the brigand is omitted totally.

In a original, virtually all of the 7 keep around never met prior to. Before meeting for their job, Kambei exclusively knew Shichiroji. Therein film, Chris Adams seems to underst& virtually all of his comrades except for Vin and Chico.

Chris Adams's introduction is markedly different from either Kambei's. In the original, Kambei makes his number 1 impression on the farmers by pretending to become the monk sequentially to deliverance the tyke taken captive by the brigand. Therein film, he & Vin are to the farmers' attention by ingesting a dead Indian to exist as buried at the local burial site, all over the objections of a bit of local townsfolk. Though the super different introduction, from each one is suited to its several culture.

Katsuhiro, a wishful immature samurai, & Kikuchiyo, a would-manque samurai whose hate for the farmers hides a painful preceding, come combined into the lone character, Chico. Unlike Kikuchiyo, Chico is non flushed at a climax of the film. Chico run Kikuchiyo's polar moment midway through a film, where he chastises the farmers for reacting to the samurai by having fear, however however expecting to receive their protection.

In a original, a samurai produce a pre-preemptive strike against the brigand camping ground, losing one of their have in the run. So, while a brig& attack a village, a samurai come short 1 human, and deuce-ace sir thomas more come flushed in the battles. In that version, that attack is omitted. All the gunmen come present for Calvera's foremost attack on the village. When their kill, Calvera's men regroup & develop to attack over again. Chico overhears this & reports it to his fellow gunmen & a farmers. A bit of of the farmers fear that Calvera's retribution is worse than his original marauding. A septet gunmen return a enemy's camping ground simply to call for it deserted. It go to to a village to buy that the villagers use fell back. A heptad come kicked away from town. It sneak back within & obliterate all the brigand. In the run, Bernardo, Britt, Harry & Lee come flushed.

As in the original, simply trey of the original heptad subsist. In the original, when in that 1, Chico/Katsushiro lessens dotty by using the farmer's girl, so fulfilling her father's greatest fear & alienating her from either him. In a original, another time a scrap is assibilate, the farmer's girl refuses to link to Katsushiro's tenderness. In that 1, Chico stays behind to become using her.

Trivia
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine did a burlesque of this picture within an episode known as "The Magnificent Ferengi," which featured Quark led a mission to rescue his mother, Ishka, from a Dominion.

The motion-picture show's illustrious theme tune was by Elmer Bernstein, later existence reused around commercial message for Marlboro and Victoria Bitter beer. A score was nominated for an Academy Award in 1961.

a shot of a heptad gunfighters striding toward the camera is one of the virtually all typically-copied shots withwithin cinematic history, appearing in such diverse films when The Right Stuff and Monsters, Inc. (which also starred James Coburn), and the opening sequence of the animated Justice League.

The film's profits inspired tierce sequels: Go to of the Seven (1966); Guns of the Magnificent Seven (1969) and A Splendid Seven Ride! (1972), but none were when successful when a original film.

A motion-picture show has likewise inspired the television series (The Glorious Seven, 1998), and the parody where the unfortunate Mexican village hires tercet American actors to protect their village from either brigand (¡Three Amigos!, 1986, starring Chevy Chase, Steve Martin, and Martin Short).

In Westworld, Yul Brynner played an android impersonating his black-dressed gunfighter role when "Chris Adams".

It likewise inspired a Kazakhstan film The Wild East.

There use at times likewise been adaptations of the film's plot, notably inside the German Karl May movie called "Thunder at the Border" (Winnetou und sein Freund Old Fireh&) (1966), and in the science fiction movie "Battle Beyond the Stars" (1980), in which Robert Vaughn reprised his role from A Brilliant Seven.

With a demise of Charles Bronson on August 30, 2003, Robert Vaughn (Lee) is the only survivor of the vii independent stars. Coincidentally, his character was a survive of the sevener hired in the film.

This film shares terzetto of its stars (Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson and James Coburn), its director and producer (John Sturges) and its composer (Elmer Bernstein) with The Great Escape. Two films likewise feature one of a stars of The Man from U.N.C.L.E.: Robert Vaughn appeared in this film while David McCallum appeared in the later one.

James Coburn (Britt), Brad Dexter (Harry Luck), Horst Buchholz (Chico) and Charles Bronson (Bernardo O'Reilly) all died in a equivalent decade months.

Although his character & a rest of his brigand come finally defeated, Eli Wallach (Calvera) has ironically outlived all of the vii stars of the film, except for Robert Vaughn who is still alive when of 2005, despite being older than 100% of the two besides Yul Brynner.

This is the number 1 of troika films where each Steve McQueen (Vin) and Robert Vaughn (Lee) appear. A more ii come Bullitt and The Towering Inferno.

James Coburn was a large fan of The Seven Samurai, and his favored character therein film in time became a character he ended higher swimming in this film.

Robert Vaughn (Lee) later played a revenant character Judge Oren Travis in the television series A Brilliant Seven (1998).

John Sturges made several unknown casting decisions: Charles Bronson (Bernardo O'Reilly) was the boy of Lithuanian immigrants and was natural within Pennsylvania but played a half-Irish, half-Mexican man; Horst Buchholz (Chico) was German and Eli Wallach is a Jewish American actor from Brooklyn, New York but both were cast when Mexicans. &, although he joined a film prior to Sturges, Yul Brynner (Chris Adams) was of Russian, Swiss and Mongolian descent but played an American cowboy in the Old West

Filming began in March 1, 1960. A 1st scene shot was a number one a share of the heptad gunfighter's journeying to the Mexican village.

Yul Brynner was initially to direct piece Anthony Quinn was to play his character, Chris Adams. But, imputable numbers of differences & arguments by having Brynner & a fact that by so he got misplaced a lead role, Quinn ended his involvement by having a film. When Brynner was there are no elongated attend directly, the newly director was required & sooner or later John Sturges was hired.

James Coburn (Britt) and Robert Vaughn (Lee) were close friends, having attend college together in the early 1950s. It was Vaughn world health organization two informed Coburn of the film & recommended him to John Sturges to play the exclusively lead that got non however been cast, Britt. Sturges said he required the immature Gary Cooper type actor and Vaughn told him that Coburn healthy a profile.

Chris Adams (Yul Brynner) and Vin (Steve McQueen) were the just 2 of the heptad gunfighters to "ride off into the sunset" at a prevent of the film (although Horst Buchholz's character, Chico, also survived). Notwithstanding, of a vii independent stars of the film, it were the number one to die around realistic: Brynner died of lung cancer on October 10, 1985, McQueen also died of lung cancer on November 7, 1980.

George Peppard (who wwhen foremost chosen as "Vin") was passed above because producers caring all about his like volatile behavior off-screen. Peppard said that it was one of a worst items that happened to him. Oddly plenty, twenty years late, he met & became friends by owning star Robert Vaughn during the pic Battle Beyond the Stars which had Peppard swimming a same of the "Vin" role: "Space Cowboy."

Yul Brynner (Chris Adams) and Steve McQueen (Vin) are a merely 2 of the 7 independent actors to develop at least 1 exchange of dialogue by owning completely of the more sise.

James Coburn (Britt) has only eleven lines in the entire film.

After The Wizard of Oz, this is the second virtually all-screened film in Western television.