The Seventh Sword
1962 film
- Riccardo Freda
- Filippo Sanjust[2]
- Riccardo Freda
- Filippo Sanjust[2]
- Cino Del Duca
- Robert De Nesle[2]
- Brett Halsey
- Béatrice Altariba
- Giulio Bosetti
- Gabriele Antonini
Production
companies
companies
- Adelphia
- Francisco Films[1]
Release date
- 30 October 1962 (1962-10-30) (Italy)
Running time
- Italy
- France[1]
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]
Cast
- 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
The 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
In 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
Footnotes
- ^ 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
- Curti, Roberto (2017). Riccardo Freda: The Life and Works of a Born Filmmaker. McFarland. ISBN 978-1476628387.
External links
- The Seventh Sword at IMDb
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Films directed by Riccardo Freda
- Don Cesare di Bazan
- Tutta la città canta
- Non canto più
- The Black Eagle
- Les Misérables
- The Mysterious Rider
- The Iron Swordsman
- Guarany
- The Gay Swordsman
- Double Cross
- Revenge of Black Eagle
- The Legend of the Piave
- See Naples and Die
- Sins of Rome
- Theodora, Slave Empress
- Beatrice Cenci
- Trapped in Tangiers
- The White Warrior
- The Giants of Thessaly
- Maciste alla corte del Gran Khan
- Caccia all'uomo
- The Witch's Curse
- The Seventh Sword
- The Horrible Dr. Hichcock
- The Ghost
- The Magnificent Adventurer
- Romeo and Juliet
- The Two Orphans
- The Exterminators
- Trap for the Assassin
- Mexican Slayride
- No Killing Without Dollars
- Double Face
- The Iguana with the Tongue of Fire
- Tragic Ceremony
- Murder Obsession
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