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| Directed by | Pedro Lazaga |
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| Edited by | Otello Colangeli[2] |
| Distributed by | Metro Goldwyn Mayer |
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Running time | 105 minutes |
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Gladiators 7 is a 1962 film directed byPedro Lazaga. The film has several elements fromAkira Kurosawa's filmThe Seven Samurai.
A Greek gladiator seeks revenge for the murder of his father and finds his lover captured by an evil tyrant.
The film was partially shot on some of the locations whereEl Cid was filmed.[3] Parts of the film were shot in Spain.[4]
Gladiators 7 was released theatrically in Italy on 11 October 1962 with a 105 minute running time and in the United States on 6 May 1964 with a 92 minute running time.[3]
In contemporary reviews, "Tube." ofVariety found the film to have a cliche screenplay with "stiff acting" and "mechanical dubbing".[5] "Tube." noted that among the action sequences, the best involved a bout between a bull and a bare-handed gladiator but that the film was "erratic in tempo and dramatically heavyhanded [sic]."[5] A review in theMonthly Film Bulletin stated that "the customary ingredients of colour, passion, and swordplay, here lavishly applied, add up to a lighthearted and lusty swashbuckling film."[6]
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