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The Seventh Sword
The Seventh Sword
	Italian film poster
Directed by	Riccardo Freda
Screenplay by	Riccardo Freda; Filippo Sanjust;
Story by	Riccardo Freda; Filippo Sanjust;
Produced by	Cino Del Duca; Robert De Nesle;
Starring	Brett Halsey; Béatrice Altariba; Giulio Bosetti; Gabriele Antonini;
Cinematography	Raffaele Masciocchi
Edited by	Franco Fraticelli
Music by	Franco Mannino
Production; companies	Adelphia; Francisco Films;
Distributed by	Cino Del Duca
Release date	30 October 1962 (Italy);
Running time	84 minutes
Countries	Italy; France;
Box office	₤140 million

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

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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.