Only a few films are so iconic that they become a symbol of an entire genre. The Magnificent Seven from 1960 is one of them. The masterpiece about a group of gunslingers protecting a village from bandits has been considered one of the best westerns of all time for 63 years. The potential of the film was evidently foreseeable before filming: The later super star Steve McQueen (Bullitt) faked an accident to get cast. The milestone is available to stream on Amazon Prime.
On Amazon Prime: Western masterpiece for which Steve McQueen destroyed his car
The Magnificent Seven is a remake of the samurai epic The Seven Samurai. In the adaptation, gunslinger Adams (Yul Brynner) recruits a group of daredevils to… to protect a Mexican village from the desperado Calvera (Eli Wallach). The residents learn to shoot from violent men like Bernardo (Charles Bronson) and Vin (McQueen) and prepare for the next attack.
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Steve McQueen in The Magnificent Seven
Director John Sturges (Broken Chains) had McQueen in mind for a role early on, but the actor was already committed to the TV series Josh – The Bounty Hunter. Without further ado, he faked a car accident drove his car into a bank building, as Express takes from Marshall Terrill’s biography Steve McQueen: In His Own Words. He was then seen around town wearing a neck brace for a while until the suspicious series producers had to release him from his contract.
The daring stunt, which according to the report he even performed with his wife in the passenger seat, gave him the breakthrough he was hoping for. The Magnificent Seven was celebrated as a milestone in the genre and McQueen rose to become one of the biggest film stars on the planet from the mid-1960s onwards.
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