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Per il gusto di uccidere (1966)

Per il gusto di uccidere poster
Directed by
Tonino Valerii
Genre
Spaghetti Western
Country
Italy, Spain
Runtime
1h 26m
Rated
16
Rating
6.5 of 10 from 12 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A mysterious stranger arrives in a dusty town with a hidden agenda. He stalks a band of outlaws across the desert plains of the frontier.

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What happens

Per il gusto di uccidere (internationally released as Taste of Killing, Lanky Fellow and For the Taste of Killing and originally titled as Cacciatore di taglie) is the 1966 Italian Spaghetti Western film debut directed by Tonino Valerii. It is also the first film to use the camera system known as 2P. It was filmed in Almería. It is produced by Francesco Genesi, Vincenzo Genesi, Daniele Senatore, Stefano Melpignano and Jose Lopez Moreno, scored by Nico Massi and edited by Rosa G. Salgado. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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