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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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)
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