Director John Sturges’ The Magnificent Seven is a Hollywood adaptation of Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai, which was inspired by John Ford's Westerns. It’s East meets West, transplanting the setting from feudal Japan to Mexico, and swapping samurai for gunslingers. Released in 1960 by The Mirisch Company and featuring an all-star cast led by Yul Brynner, it opened to mixed reviews and a slow domestic box office. Yet it endured; how? Charles Stinson of the Los Angeles Times stated, “Elmer Bernstei...