''Seven Vengeful Women'' (Spanish: ''Las siete magníficas'', Italian: ''7 donne per una strage'') is a 1966

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directed by

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and Sidney W. Pink.Weisser p.207 It stars

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and

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. It was a co-production between Spain, Italy, Austria and Liechtenstein and was part of a string of Eurowesterns made during the decade. It is also known by the

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''Tall Women''. In 1967 it was released in the United States by Allied Artists, after being dubbed into English.

Synopsis

Following an

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attack on a

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, seven female survivors who had sheltered in a cave try to make their way to safety. They are joined by a cavalry scout who is the lone survivor of an ambush of an army patrol in the area.

Cast

as Mary Ann *

as Ursula *

as Gus Macintosh *

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as Katy Grimaldi *

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as Betty Grimaldi *

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as Bridget *

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as Pope *

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as Blanche *

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as Pilar *

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as Dorothy * John Clark as Col. Howard * Dorit Dom * Fernando Hilbeck as White Cloud * Renate Lanz *

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* Franco Mariotti * Alejandra Nilo as White Cloud's squaw *

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References

Bibliography

* Thomas Weisser. ''Spaghetti Westerns: the Good, the Bad and the Violent''. McFarland, 2005.

External links

* * 1966 films 1966 Western (genre) films Spaghetti Western films Austrian Western (genre) films Spanish Western (genre) films English-language Austrian films English-language Spanish films English-language Italian films 1960s Spanish-language films Films directed by Rudolf Zehetgruber Films shot in Almería Films scored by Gregorio García Segura Films produced by Sidney W. Pink 1960s Italian films {{1960s-Western-film-stub