A Reason to Live, a Reason to Die
- IMDb link: 0069159
- IMDb rating: 6.1 (2,603 votes) Search
- Genres: Drama, Western
- Director: Tonino Valerii
- Cast: James Coburn, Telly Savalas, Bud Spencer, Reinhard Kolldehoff and others
- Release date: 6 Aug 1973
- Release year: 1972
- Runtime: 92 minutes
- Country: Italy, France, West Germany, Spain
- Keywords: 1860s, new mexico territory, confederate officer, southwest united states, new mexico, year 1862, revenge, gatling gun, confederate army, american civil war
Plot
Storyline
Branded a coward for surrendering his New Mexico fort to the Confederates without firing a shot, a Union Colonel leads a band of condemned prisoners on a suicide mission to recapture it.
March 1862, Territory of New Mexico. Dishonoured and captured by the ambitious Union officer, Colonel Ballard, the former Union colonel, Pembroke, finds himself before an urgent dilemma: he is to retake Fort Holman from the Confederates, or meet his Maker. Of course, this is an impossible task, and now, Pembroke's hopes to pull off this suicidal mission rest in the hands of a motley crew of condemned cut-throats, deserters, horse-thieves, and murderers, including the looter, Eli Sampson. But, at the impregnable stronghold, deadly, rapid-fire Gatling guns await, paired with Major Frank Ward's highly sophisticated security system. Has anyone ever infiltrated the impenetrable fortress and lived to tell the tale?
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