Shoot the Living and Pray for the Dead

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 noircrime films of the 1930s and 1940s, and Kinskis entry into the scene reprises Edward G. Robinsons presence in Key Largo 1948.

The film was shot simultaneously with The Last Traitor Il tredicesimo sempre Giuda, another spaghetti western that was also directed and written by Vari and Bolzoni.First released theatrically as Prega il morto e ammazza il vivo in Italy onAugust 1971, the film was distributed internationally under different titles. In West Germany it was released as Der Mrder des Klans. In itsMay 1972 French release, it was Priez les morts, tuez les vivants. On release on cable television in Brazil it was titled Mata o Vivo E Reza Pelo Morto. When first released in the United States, it was as Pray to Kill and Return Alive, while its international release title in English was Renegade Gun. Subsequently it was also released as To Kill a Jackal and then Shoot the Living and Pray for the Dead. It was released in Finland as Rukous kuolleiden puolesta. In itsSeptember 1973 release in Sweden it was as Skjut de levande bed fr de dda, while in Portugal onJuly 1975, it was as Reza Pelo Morto e Mata o Vivo, and its latest US release was as To Kill a Jackal. ........

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