The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins is a 1971 comedy film directed and produced by Graham Stark. Its title is a conflation of The Magnificent Seven and the seven deadly sins. It comprises a sequence of seven sketches, each representing a sin and written by an array of British comedy-writing talent. The sketches are linked by animation sequences. The music score is by British jazz musician Roy Budd, cinematography by Harvey Harrison and editing by Rod Nelson-Keys and Roy Piper. It was produced by Tigon Pictures (1968-1973) and distributed in the U.K. by Tigon Film Distributors Ltd. (mainly 1964-1983). Graham Stark Graham Stark (born 20 January 1922) is an English comedian, actor, writer and director. ... Roy Frederick Budd (14 March 1947, Mitcham, Surrey – 7 August 1993, London) was a British jazz musician and film composer. ... The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a country in western Europe, and a member of the European Union. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... See also: 1970 in film 1971 1972 in film 1970s in film years in film film // Events February 8 - Bob Dylans hour long documentary film, Eat the Document, premieres at New Yorks Academy of Music. ... The word comedy has a classical meaning (comical theatre) and a popular one (the use of humor with an intent to provoke laughter in general). ... Graham Stark Graham Stark (born 20 January 1922) is an English comedian, actor, writer and director. ... The Magnificent Seven is a 1960 western film directed by John Sturges about a group of hired gunmen tasked with protecting a Mexican village from bandits. ... For other uses, see Cardinal sin (disambiguation). ... Sin is a term used mainly in a religious context to describe an act that violates a moral rule, or the state of having committed such a violation. ... Roy Frederick Budd (14 March 1947, Mitcham, Surrey – 7 August 1993, London) was a British jazz musician and film composer. ...

The film is now largely neglected.

Avarice

The first segment is titled Avarice, written by John Esmonde & Bob Larbey, features Bruce Forsyth, Paul Whitsun-Jones, Bernard Bresslaw, Joan Sims, Roy Hudd, Julie Samuel, Cheryl Hall and Suzanne Heath. In this segment, a coin falls into a sewer, and a rich man makes his chauffeur go into the sewer to retrieve it. Soon other people become involved in the search, including a police woman (Sims), a fisherman and one of the workers in the sewer. In the end the rich man, seeing the sewage on the chauffeur, fires him but then falls straight into the open sewer and the chauffeur replaces the manhole cover and walks away with the coin. Greed is often associated with death and disease. ... John Esmonde (born 1937) and Bob Larbey (born 1934) were a successful British television comedy scriptwriting duo from the 1960s to the 1990s, creating popular situation comedies such as Please Sir! and The Good Life. ... John Esmonde and Bob Larbey (born 1934) were a successful British television comedy scriptwriting duo from the 1960s to the 1990s, creating popular sitcoms such as Please, Sir and The Good Life. ... Bruce Forsyth, CBE (born Bruce Joseph Forsyth-Johnson on 22 February 1928) is an English showman, entertainer and devoted homosexaul who achieved celebrity on the show Sunday Night at the London Palladium, and has since presented the television shows The Generation Game, Play Your Cards Right and Strictly Come Dancing. ... Paul Whitsun-Jones is a British actor (5 April 1923-14 January 1974). ... Bernard Bresslaw (February 25, 1934 - June 11, 1993) was an English actor who was trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. ... Irene Joan Marian Sims (May 9, 1930, Laindon, Essex - June 28, 2001) was a British actress. ... Roy Hudd, OBE (b. ... Cheryl Hall (born 23 July 1950 in London) is a British actress. ...

Envy

The second segment, Envy, written by Dave Freeman, features Harry Secombe, Geoffrey Bayldon, June Whitfield and Carmel Cryan. Secombe and his wife are winners of the football pools and are looking to buy a huge house. The wife spots one and decides she must have it. Look up Envy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Dave Freeman (22 August 1922 - 28 March 2005) was a British film and television writer, working chiefly in comedy. ... Sir Harry Donald Secombe, CBE (8 September 1921–11 April 2001) was a Welsh entertainer with a noted fine tenor singing voice and a talent for comedy. ... Geoffrey Bayldon Geoffrey Bayldon (born January 7, 1924 in Leeds, Yorkshire) is a British actor. ... June Whitfield CBE 1925 in Streatham, London) is a well-known English actress. ... Pool has several meanings: A planted garden pool at Mission San Juan Capistrano It is any of several games similar to billiards, distinguished by using a table that has one pocket at each corner and one in the middle of each of the two longer sides. ...

The owners (Bayldon and Whitfield) enjoy a quiet life there and do not wish to sell. So Secombe's character decides to employ a series of schemes to force the owners of the house to sell their home so that they can buy it; one of these schemes involves creating a mock edition of the local newspaper that purports to tell the story of a new motorway that will go straight through their garden.

Seeing this the owners sell to Secombe and wife. As they move in a mechanical digger is seen coming towards the house as it turns out the 'story' is actually true.

Gluttony

The third segment, Gluttony, written by Graham Chapman & Barry Cryer, features Leslie Phillips, Julie Ege, Patrick Newell, Rosemarie Reed, Sarah Golding, Bob Guccione and Tina McDowell. In this sketch Phillips is a compulsive eater who has food hidden around his apartment. Gluttony can also refer to a character named Gluttony - a homonculus from the anime series Full Metal Alchemist Gluttony is the over-indulgence and over-consumption of food, drink, or intoxicants to the point of waste. ... Graham Chapman (8 January 1941–4 October 1989) was an English comedian, actor, writer and physician. ... Barry Cryer (born March 23, 1935 in Leeds, Yorkshire, UK) is a writer and comedian. ... Leslie Samuel Phillips OBE (b. ... Julie Ege (born April 30, 1943) is a Norwegian actress and model. ... Patrick Newell (March 27, 1932 - July 22, 1988) was a British actor known for his large size. ... Bob Guccione and friend Robert Charles Joseph Edward Sabatini Guccione (b. ...

Lust

The forth segment, Lust, written by Graham Stark & Marty Feldman, features Harry H. Corbett, Cheryl Kennedy, Bill Pertwee, Mary Baxter, Anouska Hempel, Kenneth Earle, Nicole Yerna, Sue Bond and Yvonne Paul. Corbett is determined to find a partner and chats up a woman in an adjoining telephone box by looking through the glass, dialling the number of her telephone and convincing her that he is someone from her past who just happens to be on a "crossed line" by an extraordinary coincidence, cleverly prompting her with some some personal details he has managed to spot. She seems quite excited about the prospect of meeting up with him, but before he gets the chance to arrange a meeting she tells him over the phone that there is a man looking at her with a face that looks like "a monkey" in the adjoining phone box (which is, of course, Corbett). The segment ends with a shot of a dangling handset. Lust is any intense desire or craving for self gratification. ... Graham Stark Graham Stark (born 20 January 1922) is an English comedian, actor, writer and director. ... Martin Alan Marty Feldman (July 8, 1934 – December 2, 1982) was an English writer, comedian and film and television actor, famous for his bulging eyes, which were the result of a thyroid condition known as Graves Disease. ... Harry H. Corbett OBE (born Rangoon, Burma - now Yangon, Myanmar - February 28th, 1925; died Hastings, Sussex, England, March 21st, 1982) was a distinguished British actor. ... Cheryl Kennedy (born April 29, 1947) is an English actress. ... William Desmond Anthony Pertwee (born July 21, 1926) Amersham, Buckinghamshire, is a British comedy actor. ... Anouska Hempel (sometimes credited as Anoushka Hempel, now Lady Weinberg) (b. ...

Pride

The fifth segment, Pride, written by Alan Simpson & Ray Galton, features Ian Carmichael, Alfie Bass, Audrey Nicholson, Sheila Bernette, Robert Gillespie, Keith Smith and Ivor Dean. In it, two motorists (Carmichael and Bass) meet facing each other on a narrow country road, and neither is willing to pull aside to let the other pass. In the end, neither wins. Pride refers to a strong sense of self-respect, a refusal to be humiliated as well as joy in the accomplishments of oneself or a person, group, or object that one identifies with. ... Ray Galton OBE (born 1930), and Alan Simpson OBE (born 1929), are British scriptwriters who met in 1948 at a tuberculosis sanatorium in London. ... Ray Galton, OBE (born 1930) and Alan Simpson, OBE (born 1929) are British scriptwriters who met in 1948 at a Tuberculosis sanatorium in London. ... Ian Carmichael as Lord Peter Wimsey Ian Carmichael OBE (born 18 June 1920) is a British film, stage and television actor. ... Alfie Bass as the Giant in The Goodies and the Beanstalk (VHS) Alfred Bass (April 8, 1921 – July 15, 1987) was a diminutive cockney-accented Jewish actor, born in Bethnal Green, London, England. ... Robert Gillespie (born 9 November 1933 in Lille, France) is a British actor. ... Date of Birth: 1952 Date of Death: 2006 Position: Inside and Outside Center Country: England Keith Smith (1952-2006) was a former English rugby player; he excelled in playing centre. ... Ivor Dean (1917 - 10 August 1974) was a British stage and television actor. ...

Sloth

The sixth segment, Sloth, written by Spike Milligan, features Spike Milligan, Melvyn Hayes, Ronnie Brody, Ronnie Barker, Peter Butterworth, Marty Feldman, Davy Kaye, David Lodge, Cardew Robinson and Madeline Smith. It is a series of silent film clips showing people not being active. In Roman Catholicism, sloth (or acedia) is one of the seven deadly sins, and is defined as spiritual apathy or laziness, putting off what God asks you to do, or not doing it at all. ... Terence Alan Milligan, KBE, (16 April 1918–27 February 2002), known as Spike Milligan, was an Irish writer, artist, musician, humanitarian, comedian, and poet. ... Terence Alan Milligan, KBE, (16 April 1918–27 February 2002), known as Spike Milligan, was an Irish writer, artist, musician, humanitarian, comedian, and poet. ... Melvyn Hayes is an English actor, born 11 January 1935. ... Ronnie Brody (born 6 November 1918 in Bristol, England — died 8 May 1991 in London, England), was a British actor who appeared in many comedy television series and films. ... Ronnie Barker Ronald William George Barker OBE (September 25, 1929 – October 3, 2005), popularly known as Ronnie Barker and (as a writer) Gerald Wiley , was an English comic actor and writer. ... Peter Butterworth (February 4, 1919 - January 16, 1979) was an English comic actor who appeared in sixteen of the Carry On films. ... Martin Alan Marty Feldman (July 8, 1934 – December 2, 1982) was an English writer, comedian and film and television actor, famous for his bulging eyes, which were the result of a thyroid condition known as Graves Disease. ... David David William Frederick Lodge (19 August 1921 - 18 October 2003) was a British character actor. ... Douglas Cardew Robinson (August 14, 1923 - 1992) was an English comedy actor, best known for his character Cardew the Cad. ... Madeline Smith (born on 2 August 1949) is a British actress/comedienne who was a model in the 1960s and appeared in many 1960s/1970s comedy films ( including several Carry_On_films ) and TV series and Hammer horror films. ...

Wrath

The seventh and last segment, Wrath, written by Graham Chapman & Barry Cryer, features Stephen Lewis, Ronald Fraser and Arthur Howard. Two men in the park are annoyed by the park keeper (Lewis) telling them off for littering, so they try to kill him. Most of their schemes fail, but in the end they succeed, by planting a bomb in a washroom. However, this is only accomplished at the cost that they themselves die too. They think that they are in heaven, and plan to litter it too, but they find themselves in hell, and the man they tried to kill is the devil. Look up Anger in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Anger is a term for the emotional aspect of aggression, as a basic aspect of the stress response in animals in which a perceived aggravating stimulus provokes a counterresponse which is likewise aggravating and threatening of violence. ... Graham Chapman (8 January 1941–4 October 1989) was an English comedian, actor, writer and physician. ... Barry Cryer (born March 23, 1935 in Leeds, Yorkshire, UK) is a writer and comedian. ... Stephen Lewis, a British actor, was born in 1936 in London, England, United Kingdom. ... Ronald Fraser in Too Late The Hero 1970 Ronald Fraser (11 April 1930 – March 13, 1997) was an English character actor who appeared in numerous British films of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s whilst also appearing in many popular TV shows. ... For other people with this name, see Arthur Howard (disambiguation) Arthur Howard (born 18 January 1910 d. ...

External links

• The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins at the Internet Movie Database
• The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins at All Movie Guide