Prega Dio… e scavati la fossa!

Movie
Original title	Prega Dio… e scavati la fossa!
Country of production	Italy
original language	Italian
Publishing year	1968
length	90 minutes
Rod
Director	Edoardo Mulargia (as Edward G. Muller )
script	Fabio Piccioni (as Nino Masson ) Edoardo Mulargia
production	Demofilo Fidani Corrado Pataro
music	Marcello Gigante
camera	Franco Villa
cut	Piera Bruni
occupation
Robert Woods : Fernando Camayo Jeff Cameron : Cipriano Selvaggia : María Carmen Cristina Penz : Consuela Paco Hermendariz : Paco Carlo Gaddi : Don Enrique's right hand Lea Nanni : María Carmen Simonetta Vitelli : Don Enrique's Maid (as Simone Blondell ) Carmelo Artale : priest Calisto Calisti : Don Enrique (as Anthony Stewens ) Vito Cipolla : Juan, the fiancé Pasquale Coletta : Gunslinger Celso Faria : Ignazio Demofilo Fidani: Country Baron Prescott

Prega Dio… e scavati la fossa! is a 1968 spaghetti western that has not yet been shown in German-speaking countries. Edoardo Mulargia directed Robert Woods in the lead role.

action

Mexico, 1889: When the young drifter Fernando Camayo heard of the deaths of his brother Ignacio and his sister Asunción, who wanted to defend themselves against the enforcement of the Ius primae noctis and wanted to flee, he returned home from Texas. He begins by inciting his compatriots to revolt against the tyrannical landowner Don Enrique, who is also responsible for the killings. He soon knows a lot of people behind him, just his friend Cipriano, who has become a bandit, has no interest in political change. When Cipriano kidnaps the daughter of Don Enrique, the two former companions duel, as the powerful man has rows of peons killed in revenge. Camayo defeats his maddened friend; the landowner gives him freedom for it.

criticism

Christian Keßler regrets in his lexicon that this is a film of the wasted opportunities. The main mistake, according to Keßler, "lies in the script, which tries to deal with an in and for itself unusually interesting topic in the stylistic devices of the simple western revenge."

Remarks

The solo trumpeter on the soundtrack is Michele Lacerenza . The soundtrack was released on CD with the track for Der Barmherzige mit den Schnellfäusen ; it contains 15 pieces.

Web links

• Prega Dio… e scavati la fossa! in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• The film at the Archivio del Cinema Italiano
• ... and at Comingsoon.it

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Keßler: Welcome to Hell. 2002, p. 196
2. ↑ Soundtrack.net