Most famously, John Sturges adapted "Seven Samurai" into a Western with his 1960 film "The Magnificent Seven." That film starred Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, James Coburn, Charles Bronson, Robert ...
There wasn't a more capable director of massive, widescreen Westerns working in Hollywood during the 1950s and '60s than John ... e.g. John Ireland and Sterling Hayden rejected the role of ...