The year of release of the film 'The Magnificent Seven' is 1960. Directed by John Sturges, the American Western follows seven gunfighters hired to defend a small Mexican village from bandits led by Calvera.
The film opened in the United States on October 12, 1960, and featured an ensemble cast including Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, Robert Vaughn, James Coburn, Horst Buchholz, and Brad Dexter. Its group of heroes helped define the large-scale, star-driven Western of the era.
A key piece of background is that the film is an Old West adaptation of Akira Kurosawa's 1954 Japanese classic 'Seven Samurai.' The connection is sometimes overlooked because the American film relocates the story from feudal Japan to rural Mexico. The movie later inspired three sequels, a television series, and a 2016 remake.