Shoot the Living and Pray for the Dead (1971)

Original title

Prega il morto e ammazza il vivo

Directed by

Giuseppe Vari

Genre

Spaghetti Western

Country

Italy

Runtime

1h 36m

Rating

5.8 of 10 from 21 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A man returns to a small town and gets caught in a web of crime and betrayal. Klaus Kinski plays a mysterious figure whose arrival stirs up buried secrets.

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What happens

Shoot the Living and Pray for the Dead (Italian: Prega il Morto e Ammazza il Vivo) is the original release title of the 1971 Italian dramatic spaghetti Western film directed by Giuseppe Vari, and starring Klaus Kinski and Dante Maggio. With its many international releases, the film had additional English titles of Pray to Kill and Return Alive, To Kill a Jackal, and Renegade Gun. The script by Adriano Bolzoni is inspired by American noir-crime films of the 1930s and 1940s, and Kinski's entry into the scene reprises Edward G. Robinson's presence in Key Largo (1948). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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