
A Reason to Live, a Reason to Die(1972)
A dishonored Union Army officer leads a group of convicts to retake Fort Holman from the Confederate Army.


“Lee Van Cleef has been dirty, "ugly" and downright mean... now watch him get violent.”
A scruffy garbage boy becomes the pupil of famed gunfighter Talby, and the stage for confrontation is set when the gunman overruns the boy's town through violence and corruption.

Giuliano Gemma
Scott Mary

Lee Van Cleef
Frank Talby

Walter Rilla
Murph Allan Short

Ennio Balbo
Turner, Banker

Lukas Ammann
Judge Cutcher

Andrea Bosic
Abel Murray

José Calvo
Blind Bill
Giorgio Gargiullo
Sheriff Nigel

Yvonne Sanson
Vivien Skill

Christa Linder
Gwen
Day of Anger is a western film released in 1967 exploring themes of arson, stagecoach, spaghetti western, dance hall, burning building. Directed by Tonino Valerii, it stars Giuliano Gemma, Lee Van Cleef, Walter Rilla. A scruffy garbage boy becomes the pupil of famed gunfighter Talby, and the stage for confrontation is set when the gunman overruns the boy's town through violence and corruption.
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