Westworld Yul Brynner plays a robotic reproduction of Yul Brynner playing Chris from the Magnificent Seven.

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Kurosawa's epic masterpiece The Seven Samurai (1954) became the 1960 Western The Magnificent Seven.

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Other classics in the list include The Magnificent Seven, Brief Encounter, Chariots of Fire and The Great Escape.

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"New Yorkers, you are the magnificent seven-and-a-half million, and because of you New York City has a future again, " he said that night.

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Three of his films were remade in the West, including Seven Samurai, his 1954 epic of freelance warriors who help a village of farmers beat their plowshares into swords (as The Magnificent Seven).

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His magnificent seven cleaned out the bookies, and even halted BBC Grandstand's Final score as the cameras showed live coverage of his success.

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"It is the culmination of seven years of campaigning to save these magnificent buildings, " said Howard Stone, the hall's chairman.

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It rained two hundred and eighty-seven days of the year, and the locals were given to magnificent mood swings.

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Gatland wants wants to wrap Wales' magnificent number seven up in cotton wool so he can play in the 2011 World Cup at the age of 37.

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It took seven years of travel and research to create this magnificent history of the genus tulipa, its 1, 200 species and the financial madness it once inspired.

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