The Seventh Sword (Italian: Le sette spade del vendicatore, French: Sept épées pour le roi, also known as Seven Swords for the King) is a 1962 Italian-French adventure film directed by Riccardo Freda. It is a remake of Freda's debut film Don Cesare di Bazan.[3][4]
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| Directed by | Riccardo Freda |
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| Cinematography | Raffaele Masciocchi[1] |
| Edited by | Franco Fraticelli[2] |
| Music by | Franco Mannino[1] |
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| Distributed by | Cino Del Duca |
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Running time | 84 minutes |
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| Box office | ₤140 million |
Cast
edit- Brett Halsey as Don Carlos di Bazan
- Béatrice Altariba as Isabella
- Giulio Bosetti as Duke of Saavedra
- Gabriele Antonini as Filippo III
- Mario Scaccia as Cardinal Inquisitor
- Gabriele Tinti as Corvo
- Alberto Sorrentino as Sancho
- Jacques Stany as The seargeant
Release
editThe Seventh Swords was released in Italy on 30 October 1962, where it was distributed by Cino Del Duca.[2] The film had a domestic gross of 140 million Italian lira in Italy.[2]
Reception
editIn a contemporary review, the Monthly Film Bulletin stated that the Director "is here at his best" and that The Seventh Sword is "a film which is in its way delightful, with much to charm the eye and tickle the senses"[1] The review noted specific scenes a tongue-in-cheek fight scene that plays in and out of a bedroom and "the final duel staged in a torture chamber of almost surrealist design and lurid colours"[1]
References
editFootnotes
edit- ^ a b c d e f g "Sette spade del vendicatore, Le". Monthly Film Bulletin. 30 (348). London: 147–148. 1963. ISSN 0027-0407.
- ^ a b c d e f Curti 2017, p. 319.
- ^ Roberto Poppi, Mario Pecorari. Dizionario del cinema italiano. I film. Gremese Editore, 2007. ISBN 8884405033.
- ^ Paolo Mereghetti. Il Mereghetti - Dizionario dei film. B.C. Dalai Editore, 2010. ISBN 8860736269.
Sources
edit- Curti, Roberto (2017). Riccardo Freda: The Life and Works of a Born Filmmaker. McFarland. ISBN 978-1476628387.
External links
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