What is The Magnificent Seven?
Q: What is The Magnificent Seven?
A: The Magnificent Seven is an American western movie made in 1960.
Q: Who composed the music for The Magnificent Seven?
A: Elmer Bernstein composed the music for The Magnificent Seven and was nominated for an Academy Award for Original Music Score in 1960.
Q: Who are some of the actors who starred in The Magnificent Seven?
A: The movie stars Yul Brynner, Eli Wallach, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, Robert Vaughn, James Coburn, Brad Dexter, Horst Buchholz, and Bing Russell.
Q: What is the plot of The Magnificent Seven?
A: The movie is a western style version of Akira Kurosawa's Japanese-language movie Seven Samurai, made in 1954. A Mexican village keeps on getting raided for food and supplies by a bandit (Eli Wallach) and his gang. The seven are a group of gunfighters hired to protect the village.
Q: Where was The Magnificent Seven filmed?
A: The movie was made on location in Mexico, and one of the towns used for the village is Durango.
Q: When was The Magnificent Seven added to the National Film Registry?
A: In 2013, The Magnificent Seven was picked by the Library of Congress to be kept in the National Film Registry because it is "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
Q: What does being in the National Film Registry mean for The Magnificent Seven?
A: Being in the National Film Registry means that the movie will be protected from damage that happens to older film that was used to make movies.
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