Along with suggesting Steve McQueen for the film, Yul Brynner's son, Rock, also recommended casting Sal Mineo in the film (He was busy shooting Exodus and unavailable), and for the music, he preferred composer Alex North. When his father told him that they had already hired Elmer Bernstein, whose score for The Ten Commandments (1956), the boy had liked, Rock replied, "My taste was a lot less mature when I was eight, Yul."

During filming, Yul Brynner married his second wife, Doris Kleiner, on the set. They used props from the film's fiesta scene to decorate.

The only member of The Magnificent Seven not to go on to bigger things afterwards was Brad Dexter. He gave up acting to work behind the scenes with Frank Sinatra after he saved the singer-actor from drowning during location shooting of None But the Brave (1965). The arrangement was short-lived, however, when he made the mistake of advising the boss not to marry Mia Farrow a few years later. He would go on to produce such films as Little Fauss and Big Halsy (1970), with Robert Redford, and Lady Sings the Blues (1972), with Diana Ross. Dexter passed away late last year.

FAMOUS QUOTES FROM THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN

"If God hadn't meant for them to be sheared, he wouldn't have made them sheep." - Eli Wallach as Calvera.

"Reminds me of that fellow back home that fell off a ten-story building....as he was falling, people on each floor kept hearing him say, 'So far, so good.' Tch! So far, so good." - Steve McQueen as Vin.

"I'll tell you what. Don't shoot the gun. Take the gun like this, and use it like a club." - Charles Bronson as O'Reilly.

"It's like this fellow back in El Paso. One day he just took all his clothes off and jumped in a mess of cactus. I asked him that same question, 'Why?'...He said, 'It seemed like a good idea at the time'." - Steve McQueen as Vin.

"Generosity, that was my first mistake. I leave these people a little extra, and then they hire these men to make trouble. Shows you, sooner or later, you must answer for every good deed." - Eli Wallach as Calvera. "Don't you ever say that again about your fathers, because they are not cowards. You think I am brave because I carry a gun; well, your fathers are much braver because they carry responsibility, for you, your brothers, your sisters, and your mothers. And this responsibility is like a big rock that weighs a ton. It bends and it twists them until finally it buries them under the ground. And there's nobody says they have to do this. They do it because they love you, and because they want to. I have never had this kind of courage. Running a farm, working like a mule every day with no guarantee anything will ever come of it. This is bravery." - Charles Bronson as O'Reilly.

"Yes. The final supreme idiocy. Coming here to hide. The deserter hiding out in the middle of a battlefield." - Robert Vaughn as Lee.

"The old man was right. Only the farmers won. We lost. We always lose." - Yul Brynner as Chris.