This truly is one of the best westerns, with an outstanding cast and brilliant music. The film is based on the Japanese all time great - The Seven Samurai directed by the one and only Akira Kurosawa, and the magnificent seven not only pays the original justice, it carves it's name into the 'magnificent' genre that is the western.

The best of the collection and one of the best westerns of all time!

What more can be said? The opening music alone puts you in the zone. From brynner and McQueen trying to outdo eachother in the cool stakes, they both lose out to the knifeman James Coburn by the way! To the career high of brad dexter this is a great way to spend a lazy winter afternoon!

Great actors, great acting, action, adventure, romance, gunplay, & one of the finest soundtracks ever written. If you don't enjoy this, you're tired of life! Do yourself a favour...

Great music and cool acting, never tire if watching it

That's it, really. This is the best, or, at a pinch, one of the five best westerns ever made. And, despite being a kind of remake of the Kurasawa film, I think it's better than his movie, at least for westerners. Okay, he has Toshiro Mifune, but the Sturges film has McQueen, Brynner, Bronson, Coburn, Vaughn... as well as Buchholz and The Guy Whom Frank Sinatra Owed A Favour (Brad Dexter). Plus, the totally legendary Eli Wallech, in a wonderful turn as the villain Calvera. A lesser actor would just sneer and be, you know, evil, but Wallech gives him a twisted humanity. Like all the best villains, he thinks he's right. It's also interesting to see it as a sort of prequal to the work he does as Tuco, in The Good, The Bad, The Ugly; another one of that top five I mentioned earlier.

I just love this movie. When Brynner steps up and says, "Oh hell, if that's all that's holding things up, I'll drive the rig", I start grinning, and I don't stop 'till he and McQueen ride away from the village at the end of the movie.

My favorite actor is Steve MacQueen and this film really kicked started his career. He hardly had any lines but I think that he stole the film. Yul Bynner was in his prime and the music score isfabulous.