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A Reason to Live, a Reason to Die is a italien film of genre Historical directed by Tonino Valerii released in USA on 19 june 1974 with James Coburn
A Reason to Live, a Reason to Die (1972)
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Add to a movie listA Reason to Live, a Reason to Die (originally titled Una Ragione Per Vivere E Una Per Morire, also known as Massacre at Fort Holman) is a 1972 Technicolor Italian spaghetti western movie starring James Coburn.
Many exterior scenes were filmed at the Fort Bowie set built in the Province of Almería, Spain, where the desert landscape and climate that characterizes part of the province have made it a much utilized setting for Western films, among those A Fistful of Dollars, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and later 800 Bullets. The Fort Bowie set was originally built for the film The Deserter.
There are two different English language versions of the movie, shorter with James Coburn's own voice and longer with different voice actors and music. James Coburn was not involved in longer cut dubbing.
Synopsis
This is a story derivative of The Dirty Dozen, but set during the American Civil War. Eli is to be hanged for looting, when he and some other men condemned to death are pardoned, providing that they follow former US colonel Pembroke in an attempt to recapture Ft Holman, which he earlier had surrendered to the Confederate army.Actors
James Coburn
(Colonel Pembroke)
Telly Savalas
(Major Ward)
Bud Spencer
(Eli Sampson)
Reinhard Kolldehoff
(Sergeant Brent)
José Suárez
(Major Charles Ballard)
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