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A Reason to Live, a Reason to Die (1972)
Director: Tonino Valerii
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
One of the worst Westerns in years, curious only for the way it mixes standard motifs from Western and war film. The beginning owes everything to The Dirty Dozen; and the finale, the attack on the fortress (after an extremely plodding journey across familiar terrain) has commander Telly Savalas' uniform looking more like field grey than Confederate blue. There's some wholesale carnage at the end, but even that fails to revive flagging spirits.Author: CPe
Cast & crew
Director: Tonino Valerii
Producer: Michael Billingsley, Alfonso Sansone, Enrico Chroscicki
Cast: James Coburn, Telly Savalas, Bud Spencer, Ralph Goodwin, Joseph Mitchell, Robert Burton full cast
Genre(s): Westerns
Duration: 96 mins
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