1967 – Alamat Ng 7 Kilabot/“Legend Of 7 Terrors” (FPJ Productions)
[Release date 11th September 1967, also listed as “Alamat Ng Pitong Kilabot”]
Director Armando A. Herrera Screenplay Teodorico C. Santos, Fred Navarro Producer Fernando Poe Jr Cinematography Sergio Lobo Music Tony Maiquez Editor Augusto Salvador Sound Recordist Ago Salvador Re-Recording Angel Avellana, Greg Ella Special [Sound] Effects Jun Martinez Magnetic Tape Editor Jay Jacinto In Charge Of Production Ben Esteva Assistant Director Manuel "Fyke" Cinco Unit Manager Rodolfo Meyer Art Director Vicente Bonus Special Effects Santos Hilario Makeup Artist Tinay Manahan Propsman Pete Herrera Field Soundman Resty Castro Assistant Cameraman Ben Lobo Schedule Master Boy Aguilar Assistant Film Editor Rene Esteva Printers Lina Evangelista, Pete Jamco Titles Greg Alcid Jr Stills Diog de Castro Horses Provided by Juan Venturina
Cast Fernando Poe Jr (Nando Aguila), Joseph Estrada (Pepe), Jess Lapid [Sr] (Cardo), Bob Soler (Dante Cortez), Dan Moreno (Moreno), Roberto Talabis (Roberto), Zaldy Zshornack (Zaldo), Van de Leon, Eddie Garcia, Johnny Monteiro, Ramon D’Salva, Lito Anzures, Victor Bravo, Bert Olivar, Paquito Diaz, Rebecca (Nena), Joe Garcia, Dencio Padilla (Dencio), Manolo Robles, Vic Varrion, Francisco Cruz, Mario Escudero, Resty Sandel, Vic Uematsu, Diego Guerrero, Paquito Salcedo, Romy Diaz, Andy Poe [film debut], Joe Cunanan, Robert Talby, Nonoy de Guzman, Ben Sanchez, Belo Borja, Manny Sanchez, Royal Dahlen, Romeo Mabutol, Bert de Dios, Ester Vizconde, Danny Riel, SOS Daredevils
WESTERN
Mini-review by Andrew Leavold
[Previously published in Leavold's book The Search For Weng Weng (2017)]
The Pinoy Western genre produced one of the finest examples of all-star teams in Alamat Ng 7 Kilabot ("Legend Of The 7 Terrors"; 1967) rounding up FPJ, Joseph Estrada, Jess Lapid Sr, Zaldy Zshornack, Bob Soler, and half-brother Andy Poe, making his film debut. Along with Dan Moreno and Roberto Talabis, the seven hired gunmen ride into a town besieged by bandits (itself an all-star team of bad guys Van de Leon, Johnny Monteiro, Eddie Garcia and Paquito Diaz), posing as San Diego's saviours sent by the Governor, but in fact searching for treasure buried somewhere in the Church graveyard. The film's obvious riff on The Magnificent Seven (1960) is mixed ingeniously with the "gold in the graveyard" idea from the then-enormous The Good The Bad And The Ugly (1966), while at the same time borrowing Leone's deliberate blurring of the Western's clear cut moral divide - itself a revolutionary leap within Philippine cinema's customary good-vs-evil morality plays.
UNDER CONSTRUCTION
THEATRICAL
PHILIPPINES - released 11th September 1967
- mp4 file [in Tagalog with no subtitles]
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