Editing The Magnificent Seven (section)

===Casting===
Sturges was eager to cast Steve McQueen in the picture, having just worked with him on the 1959 film ''[[Never So Few]]'', but McQueen could not get a release from actor/producer [[Dick Powell]], who controlled McQueen's hit TV series ''[[Wanted Dead or Alive (TV series)|Wanted Dead or Alive]]''. On the advice of his agent, McQueen, an experienced race car driver, staged a car accident and claimed that he could not work on his series because he had suffered a whiplash injury and had to wear a neck brace. During the interval required for his "recuperation", he was free to appear in ''The Magnificent Seven''.<ref name="eliot">{{cite book|last1=Eliot|first1=Marc|title=Steve McQueen|date=2012|publisher=Three Rivers Press |location=NY |isbn=978-0307453228 |pages=75–77 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cQXDLM0til4C&q=steve+mcqueen+magnificent+seven&pg=PA74|access-date=September 30, 2016}}</ref> James Coburn was a great fan of the Japanese film ''Seven Samurai'', having seen it 15 times, and was hired through the help of co-star and former [[Los Angeles City College|classmate]] Robert Vaughn, after the role of the expert knifethrower had been rejected by actors [[Sterling Hayden]] and [[John Ireland]].<ref name="Pendreigh">{{cite web | last1=Pendreigh | first1=Brian | title=Magnificent obsession | url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2000/feb/04/1 | website=The Guardian | date=February 3, 2000 | access-date=September 30, 2016}}</ref><ref name="coburn">{{cite magazine|first=Stephen|last=Vagg|magazine=Filmink|date=14 February 2025|access-date=14 February 2025|title=Movie Star Cold Streaks: James Coburn|url=https://www.filmink.com.au/movie-star-cold-streaks-james-coburn/}}</ref>