Shoot the Living and Pray for the Dead (1971)

19711h 34mdir. Giuseppe VariItalianEnglish subtitlesItalySpaghetti Western

With Klaus Kinski, Dante Maggio, Adriana Giuffrè, Aldo Barberito, Victoria Zinny, Goffredo Unger

Directed by Giuseppe Vari

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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).

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