A Reason to Live, a Reason to Die

A 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.

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.The volunteers are a deserter who have killed two sentries, a man who has murdered his commanding officer and raped the wife of the victim, a horsethief, two looters, one who has stolen medicine so soldiers have died, and an Indian bastard who has killed a white man that sold liqueur to the Apaches. However, the one presented as the worst of the bunch a religious pacifist agitator declines the offer and is hanged ........

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