title: Gladiators 7
text: # 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."
  
  