Gladiators 7
# Gladiators 7

Gladiators 7 is a 1962 film directed by Pedro Lazaga. The film has several elements from Akira Kurosawa's film The Seven Samurai.

## Plot

A Greek gladiator seeks revenge for the murder of his father and finds his lover captured by an evil tyrant.

## Cast

* Richard Harrison as Darius
* Loredana Nusciak as Aglaia
* Livio Lorenzon as Panurgus
* Gérard Tichy as Hiarba
* Edoardo Toniolo as Milon
* José Marco as Xeno
* Barta Barri as Flaccus
* Nazzareno Zamperla as Vargas (credited as Tony Zamperla)
* Franca Badeschi as Licia
* Enrique Ávila as Livius
* Antonio Molino Rojo as Macrobius
* Antonio Rubio as Mados
* Emilia Wolkowicz as Ismere

## Production

The film was partially shot on some of the locations where El Cid was filmed. Parts of the film were shot in Spain.

## Release

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.

## Reception

In contemporary reviews, "Tube." of Variety found the film to have a cliche screenplay with "stiff acting" and "mechanical dubbing". "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]." A review in the Monthly Film Bulletin stated that "the customary ingredients of colour, passion, and swordplay, here lavishly applied, add up to a lighthearted and lusty swashbuckling film."

