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The Five Man Army (1969)

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Original title
Un esercito di cinque uomini
Directed by
Don Taylor, Italo Zingarelli
Genre
Spaghetti Western
Country
Italy
Runtime
1h 45m
Rated
PG
Rating
6.6 of 10 from 63 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

The Five Man Army is a spaghetti western about a group of five men who are hired to steal a gold shipment from a train during the Mexican Revolution.

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What happens

The Five Man Army (Italian: Un esercito di 5 uomini) is a 1969 Italian Spaghetti Western film in which a group of five men are enlisted to rob a train of a gold shipment during the Mexican Revolution. Directed by Don Taylor, it featured a script by a young Dario Argento, later future maestro of the horror and thriller genre, and a score by Ennio Morricone. Argento also directed some sequences of the film without being credited. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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