Die or kill

Movie
German title	Die or kill
Original title	Killer calibro 32
Country of production	Italy
original language	Italian
Publishing year	1967
length	95 (German v. 87) minutes
Age rating	FSK 18
Rod
Director	Alfonso Brescia; (as Al Bradley )
script	Vincenzo Gicca Palli
production	Bruno Turchetto
music	Robby Poitevin
camera	Fulvio Testi; (as Bob Roberts )
cut	Edmondo Lozzi; (as Edmond Zimmerwald )
occupation
	Peter Lee Lawrence : Silver; Agnès Spaak : Beth; Lucy Scay : Janet; Massimo Righi : Jud, Deputy Sheriff ; (as Max Dean ); Alberto dell'Acqua : Spot Averell ; (as Cole Kitosch ); Andrea Bosic : Averell ; (as Andrey Bosic ); Nello Pazzafini : Fitch ; (as Red Carter ); Valentino Macchi : Man in the Carriage ; (as Robert Steevenson ); Mirko Ellis : Sheriff Bear; Hélène Chanel : Dolly, saloon manager ; (as Sherill Morgan ); John Bartha : Parker; Silvio Bagolini : Age ; (as Stephen Wilde ); Mike Bolt : Carruthers;

Die or Kill (Original title: Killer calibro 32 ) is a 1967 spaghetti western with Peter Lee Lawrence in the lead role. The moderately budgeted film was first shown in the German-speaking area on June 20, 1968.

action

Again and again, the carriage carrying cash to the Carson City Bank is ambushed by a group of seven masked men. Finally, all passengers were killed because one of them recognized the leader of the group. Gunslinger Silver is tasked with finding the bandits.

Silver lets the rumor spread that he knows some of the masked men; as a result, an assassination attempt is carried out on him, which puts him on the trail of those responsible. Silver is also troubled by the sheriff hired against him and two local women: the daughter of a murdered bank employee and the saloon owner. Despite all the problems, Silver can solve the task.

criticism

"The director's best western, which treads similar ground to the first film in the series ( Die upright, gringo! ), But with a better script and a considerably more respectable cast," writes Christian Keßler in his book about the genre. The lexicon of international films notes, above all, about the synchronization by Rainer Brandt : "Tough and stereotypical spaghetti westerns, whose speech-knocking heroes" surround the aura of a comic figure. "The local criticism was harsh:" It is not worth talking about this film , one of the worst productions on the market, with a bunch of fake beards and faces twisted with anger. "

Remarks

Almost all those involved were listed with an English pseudonym. Maurizio Graf sings the film song "Amica Colt" .

Web links

Die or kill in the Internet Movie Database (English)
The film at comingsoon

Individual evidence

↑ Keßler: Welcome to Hell. 2002, p. 129
↑ synchronization
↑ Die or kill. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
^ Film Mese, No. April 4, 1967

[1] Keßler: Welcome to Hell. 2002, p. 129

[2] synchronization

[3] Die or kill. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .

[4] Film Mese, No. April 4, 1967