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Shoot the Living and Pray for the Dead is a film of genre Action directed by Giuseppe Vari with Klaus Kinski

Shoot the Living and Pray for the Dead (1971)

Prega il morto e ammazza il vivo

Shoot the Living and Pray for the Dead
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Length 1h30
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Genres Action,    Western
Rating61% 3.094933.094933.094933.094933.09493

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).



^ Weisser, Thomas (2005). Spaghetti Westerns: the Good, the Bad And the Violent. McFarland & Company. pp. 244, 291. ISBN 0786424427.

^ "New York Times: Pray to Kill and Return Alive". NY Times. Retrieved 25 October 2008.

^ Gerbode, Dirk (12 May 2005). "DVD review: MÖRDER DES KLANS (Italien 1971)". Das Filmmagazin (in German). Retrieved 13 May 2012.

^ "Prega il morto e ammazza il vivo". Spaghetti Western Database. spaghetti-western.net. Retrieved 13 May 2012.

^ Marco Giusti. Dizionario del western all'italiana. Mondadori, 2007. pp. 389–390, 537.

Synopsis

After having robbed a bank for $100,000 in gold bars, Dan Hogan (Klaus Kinski) and his gang meet up at the Jackal's Ranch stagecoach way station near the Mexican border, where Hogan's girlfriend Eleanor (Victoria Zinny) is to surreptitiously bring their stolen gold to them. While they await her arrival, they encounter John Webb (Paolo Casella), a stranger who had shot the man who was to be their guide and who himself wants half their gold in exchange for leading them into Mexico. Hogan agrees and they depart into the desert with the law close behind. In fact, Webb plots to destroy the gang as Hogan, during his earlier days with the Ku Klux Klan, had killed Webb's father.

Actors

Klaus Kinski

(Dan Hogan)Dante Maggio

(Jonathan)Adriana Giuffrè
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