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* Seven Magnificent Gladiators ( 1985 ) starring Lou Ferrigno and Dan Vadis
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Among his most famous roles are Tuco in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly ( 1966 ) and Calvera in The Magnificent Seven.
Other early films include The Lineup, The Misfits, The Magnificent Seven ( he portrayed the Mexican bandit Calvera ), Lord Jim as the General, a comic role in How to Steal a Million ( the latter two with Peter O ' Toole ), and perhaps most famously, as Tuco ( the ' Ugly ') in Sergio Leone's The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
In particular, Kurosawa's Seven Samurai has been remade several times as Western films, such as The Magnificent Seven ( 1960 ) and Battle Beyond the Stars ( 1980 ), and has also inspired several Bollywood films, such as Sholay ( 1975 ) and China Gate ( 1998 ).
According to Michael Jeck's DVD commentary, Seven Samurai was among the first films to use the now-common plot element of the recruiting and gathering of heroes into a team to accomplish a specific goal, a device used in later films such as The Guns of Navarone, Ocean's Eleven, The Dirty Dozen, and the western remake The Magnificent Seven.
Its influence can be most strongly felt in the western The Magnificent Seven ( 1960 ), a film specifically adapted from Seven Samurai.
In 1992, the main theme of The Magnificent Seven came into use on a section of the Euro Disneyland Railroad at Disneyland Paris.
" According to Variety, " Until the women and children arrive on the scene about two-thirds of the way through, The Magnificent Seven is a rip-roaring rootin ' tootin ' western with lots of bite and tang and old-fashioned abandon.
The last third is downhill, a long and cluttered anti-climax in which The Magnificent Seven grow slightly too magnificent for comfort.
The plot of The Magnificent Seven directly inspired the 1980 sci-fi film, Battle Beyond the Stars, which included actor Robert Vaughn as one of the seven mercenaries hired to save a farming planet from alien marauders.
" I sette magnifici gladiatori " ( 1983 ) aka " The Seven Magnificent Gladiators " was a Sword & Sandal variation on the Seven Samurai / Magnificent Seven theme starring Lou Ferrigno and Sybil Danning.
Seven and Gladiators
The film was September 1955's Seven Cities of Gold, with Richard Egan, who had been ninth-billed as a vicious fighting machine and rapist of ingenue Debra Paget in the previous year's Demetrius and the Gladiators and was now receiving star build-up and first billing ; Anthony Quinn was billed second.
After Paradise Beach ended, she had casual work on Hey Hey It's Saturday before co-hosting the popular Seven Network series Gladiators.
However, rival network Seven offered her a contract to co-host Gladiators before Nine could make her Hey Hey contract permanent.
Seven and 1985
The Reg Grundy Organisation also created Neighbours, a suburban-based daily serial devised as a sedate family drama with some comedy and lightweight situations, for the Seven Network in 1985.
In May 1985, the seven principal rebel organizations formed the Seven Party Mujahideen Alliance to coordinate their military operations against the Soviet army.
Open All Hours is a BBC sitcom written by Roy Clarke which ran for four series ( 26 episodes in all over three broadcast runs ) a first run in 1976, a second run in 1981, third in 1982 and a fourth in 1985, with a pilot episode from the Seven of One series in 1973.
* Whalen, Charles and Whalen, Barbara ( 1985 ), The Longest Debate: A Legislative History of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, Cabin John, MD: Seven Locks Press.
* Paul Niquette, A Certain Bicyclist: An Offbeat Guide to the Post-Petroleum Age – Editor: Seven Palms Press ( 1985 ) – ISBN 0-912593-04-0
Seven players, originally selected for the 1985 Ashes tour, had signed for the Hughes-led " rebel " team and withdrew from the squad.
Neighbours began on Seven in 1985, but low ratings in Sydney led to the cancellation of the new series at the end of the year, which later moved to Network Ten and went on to achieve international success.
*" The Ament ", ( nv ) Seven Deadly Sins: A Collection of New Fiction, editor anon., Severn House, London 1985
In 1985 Night Ranger continued headlining their own tours in support of Seven Wishes which followed a very loose concept of the band flying across the ocean in a WWII B-25 Mitchell bomber.
In 1985 they also contributed another Seven Wishes track, " This Boy Needs to Rock ," to the soundtrack of Explorers.
Seven weeks later, on March 29, 1985, a U. S. District Court Judge A. David Mazzone held them to be in contempt and fined them $ 45, 000 per day.
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