Se sei vivo spara

Se sei vivo spara (Italy · Spain 1967 / Director: Giulio Questi)

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Django Kill If You Want to Live Shoot movie poster

Synopsis

Greed splits a gang of gold thieves, miraculously surviving the ensuing massacre "The Stranger" (Tomas Milian) sets out after his ex comrades for vengeance. A trail which leads him to a town "The Unhappy Place" where he discovers their sadistically murdered bodies. "The Stranger" finds himself caught between the towns two rival factions battling for the stolen gold. The townspeople led by a storekeeper called "Hagerman" (Francisco Sanz) who keeps his wife imprisoned and "The Muchachos" a gang of black uniformed homosexual Mexican bandits mounted on pure white horses, led by their adoring leader "Mr Sorrow" (Roberto Camardiel). --The Halitosis Kid 14:07, 9 December 2006 (CET)

Credits

Cast (Italian): Thomas Milian (The Stranger / Django), Marilù Tolo (Flory), Piero Lulli (Oaks), Milo Quesada (Bill Templer), Franciso Sanz [as Paco Sanz] (Hagerman / Alderman), Miguel Serrano, Angel Silva, Sancho Gracia (Willy, Sorrow lieutenant), Mirella Panfili, Raymond Lovelock (Evan Templer), Roberto Camardiel (Sorrow), Patrizia Valturri (Elizabeth Hagerman/Alderman)
Uncredited actors: Gene Collins (Collins, Oaks bandit), Scott Miller (heavy set blond Oaks bandit), Frank Brana (townsman), Herman Reynoso (townsman), Rafael Hernández (Richie, barman, piano player), Ennio Pagliani (Lister, Sorrow muchacho), Sisto Brunetti (Sorrow muchacho), Calogero Azzaretto (Sorrow muchacho), Raul Castro (Mexican bandit)

Story: María del Carmen Martínez Román
Screenplay: Franco Arcalli, Giulio Questi, Benedetto Benedetti
Cinematography: Franco Delli Colli [Eastmancolor, Techniscope 2,35:1]
Music: Ivan Vandor
Producer: Alessandro Jacovoni [as Alex J. Rascal], Giulio Questi

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Trivia

Ray Lovelock reported that a spectator felt ill, at the Royal Cinema in Rome, during the scene of the extraction of the bullets.
For that scene, in which the hands of those present dig into the body of the wounded man in search of the gold bullets, pork was used.
During the filming Questi and Amelio met Orson Welles who was filming his Falstaff not far away, Welles is said to have said: «There is a western in the life of every true director».