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{{short description|1971 film by Graham Stark}}
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{{Infobox film
| name = The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins
| image = The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins.jpg
| caption = Poster
| director = [[Graham Stark]]
| producer = Graham Stark
| writer = [[Graham Chapman]], [[Barry Cryer]], [[Ray Galton]], [[Alan Simpson (scriptwriter)|Alan Simpson]], [[Spike Milligan]], [[Esmonde and Larbey|John Esmonde]], [[Bob Larbey]], [[Graham Stark]], [[Dave Freeman (British writer)|Dave Freeman]]
| starring = [[Bruce Forsyth]], [[Harry Secombe]], [[Leslie Phillips]], [[Harry H. Corbett]], [[Ian Carmichael]], [[Alfie Bass]]
| music = [[Roy Budd]]
| cinematography = Harvey Harrison
| editing = Rod Nelson-Keys<br />Roy Piper
| distributor = [[Tigon Film Distributors Ltd.]]
| released = {{Film date|df=yes|1971|11}}
| runtime = 107 minutes
| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
| budget = £116,000<ref name="hamilton">John Hamilton, ''Beasts in the Cellar: The Exploitation Film Career of Tony Tenser'', Fab Press, 2005 p 206</ref>
}}
'''''The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins''''' is a 1971 British [[sketch 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, including [[Graham Chapman]], [[Spike Milligan]], [[Barry Cryer]] and [[Galton and Simpson]]. The sketches are linked by animation sequences overseen by [[Bob Godfrey]]'s animation studio. 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 and distributed in the U.K. by [[Tigon Film Distributors Ltd.]]

== Avarice ==
The first segment, "Avarice", is written by [[Esmonde and Larbey|John Esmonde]] and [[Esmonde and Larbey|Bob Larbey]]. In this segment, a 50p coin falls down a drain and a rich man (Whitsun-Jones) orders his chauffeur (Forsyth) to retrieve it. A fisherman (Hudd) attempts to fish it out. The chauffeur's efforts result only in the coin dropping farther down into the sewer. Other people become involved in the search, including a policewoman (Sims) 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. The chauffeur drops the coin in after him and after replacing the manhole cover, walks away with a purposeful stride.

=== Cast ===
* [[Bruce Forsyth]] as Clayton
* [[Paul Whitsun-Jones]] as Elsinore
* [[Bernard Bresslaw]] as Mr. Violet
* [[Joan Sims]] as Policewoman
* [[Roy Hudd]] as Fisherman
* [[Julie Samuel]] as Petrol Station Attendant
* [[Cheryl Hall]] as Vanessa
* [[Suzanne Heath]] as Chloe

== Envy ==
The second segment, "Envy", is written by [[Dave Freeman (British writer)|Dave Freeman]]. Stanley (Secombe) and his wife Vera (Cryan) are winners of the [[football pools]] and are looking to buy a huge house. His wife spots one and decides she must have it.

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.

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.

=== Cast ===
* [[Harry Secombe]] as Stanley
* [[Geoffrey Bayldon]] as Vernon
* [[June Whitfield]] as Mildred
* [[Carmel Cryan]] as Vera

== Gluttony ==
The third segment, "Gluttony", is written by [[Graham Chapman]] and [[Barry Cryer]]. In this sketch Phillips is a compulsive eater who has food hidden all around his office.

=== Cast ===
* [[Leslie Phillips]] as Dickie
* [[Julie Ege]] as Ingrid
* [[Patrick Newell]] as Doctor
* [[Rosemarie Reed]] as Woman
* [[Sarah Golding]] as Secretary
* [[Bob Guccione]] as Photographer
* [[Tina McDowall]] as Penthouse Pet

== Lust ==
The fourth segment, "Lust", is written by [[Graham Stark]] from a story by [[Marty Feldman]]. Ambrose Twombly (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 some extraordinary coincidence, cleverly prompting her with 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.

=== Cast ===
* [[Harry H. Corbett]] as Ambrose Twombly
* [[Cheryl Kennedy]] as Greta
* [[Bill Pertwee]] as Cockney Man
* [[Mary Baxter]] as Charlady
* [[Anouska Hempel]] as Blonde
* [[Kenneth Earle]] as Boy Friend
* [[Nicole Yerna]] as Thin Girl
* [[Sue Bond]] as Girl with Glasses
* [[Yvonne Paul]] as Receptionist

== Pride ==
The fifth segment, "Pride", is written by [[Alan Simpson (scriptwriter)|Alan Simpson]] and [[Ray Galton]]. 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.

This was a reworking of the writers' ''Impasse'' episode in the second (1963) series of ''[[Comedy Playhouse (series 2)|Comedy Playhouse]]''. It was remade again in 1996 as an episode of ''[[Paul Merton in Galton & Simpson's...]]''.

=== Cast ===
* [[Ian Carmichael]] as Mr. Ferris
* [[Alfie Bass]] as Mr. Spencer
* Audrey Nicholson as Mrs. Ferris
* [[Sheila Bernette]] as Mrs. Spencer
* [[Robert Gillespie]] as A.A. Patrol Man
* [[Keith Smith (actor)|Keith Smith]] as R.A.C. Patrol Man
* [[Ivor Dean]] as Policeman

== Sloth ==
The sixth segment, "Sloth", is written by [[Spike Milligan]]. It features a series of silent black and white film clips, with dialogue captions, where people chose to be inactive rather than pursuing a logical course. In particular a tramp who refuses to take his hands out of his pockets, as he is holding his walnuts. The captions incorporate a [[running gag]] on the word "walnut".

=== Cast ===
* [[Spike Milligan]] as Tramp
* [[Melvyn Hayes]] as Porter
* [[Ronnie Brody]] as Costermonger
* [[Ronnie Barker]]
* [[Peter Butterworth]]
* [[Marty Feldman]]
* [[Davy Kaye]]
* [[David Lodge (actor)|David Lodge]]
* [[Cardew Robinson]]
* [[Madeline Smith]]

== Wrath ==
The seventh and last segment, "Wrath", is written by [[Graham Chapman]] and [[Barry Cryer]].

Two men in a public park (Fraser and Howard) are angered by the park keeper (Lewis, playing his character Inspector Blake from ''[[On the Buses]]'' in all but name) 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 instead they find themselves in [[hell]], and the man they tried to kill is actually [[the devil]].

=== Cast ===
* [[Ronald Fraser (actor)|Ronald Fraser]] as George
* [[Stephen Lewis (actor)|Stephen Lewis]] as Jarvis, the park keeper
* [[Arthur Howard]] as Kenneth

==Cast notes==
The cast features three [[James Bond]] actresses: [[Anouska Hempel]] and [[Julie Ege]], who appeared in ''[[On Her Majesty's Secret Service (film)|On Her Majesty's Secret Service]]'', and [[Madeline Smith]], who would later appear in ''[[Live and Let Die (film)|Live and Let Die]]''. All three had minor roles in those films.

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
* {{IMDb title|0067381|The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins}}
* {{Allmovie title|100950|The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins}}

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