A Minute To Pray, a Second To Die
Cast & Crew
Franco Giraldi
Alex Cord
Arthur Kennedy
Robert Ryan
Nicoletta Machiavelli
Mario Brega
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Synopsis
In the New Mexico Territory around 1870, gunman Clay McCord, who has a $10,000 dead-or-alive reward on his head, fears that he is doomed to die from periodic attacks of paralysis reminiscent of the epileptic fits that killed his father. Taking refuge in Escondido, a town filled with fugitive bandits converging there during the state of amnesty declared by Gov. Lem Carter, Clay is given shelter in the cabin of Laurinda, a half-starved young woman. Kraut, the town's outlaw boss, has his henchmen capture Clay and string him up by the hands. That night, however, Clay is rescued by a peddler, Cheap Charley Gamble, who informs him that Governor Carter wants to give him amnesty before the deadline is passed. Clay goes to a cabin outside the city of Tuscona [Tuscon?] for a prearranged meeting with the governor, but when Carter arrives, he finds Clay in the throes of one of his attacks. He summons U. S. Marshal Roy Colby, who is besieging Escondido, and Dr. Chase; and the physician, by extracting a bullet from the outlaw's arm, discovers that the paralytic seizures were brought about by the bullet's touching a nerve. Then, Kraut and his men attack the cabin and set it afire. In the ensuing battle, Dr. Chase and Marshal Colby are killed, but Clay and Carter escape through a cellar tunnel. Once on the outside, Clay kills off Kraut's gang and then rides to Tuscona to accept the governor's amnesty. As he rides out, he is shot by two bounty hunters who are unaware that there is no longer a price on his head. [In the shorter release version, McCord is not shot by the bounty hunters.]
Director
Franco Giraldi
Cast
Alex Cord
Arthur Kennedy
Robert Ryan
Nicoletta Machiavelli
Mario Brega
Renato Romano
Giampiero Albertini
Daniel Martin
Enzo Fiermonte
Pedro Canalejas
Franco Lantieri
Osiride Pevarelli
José Manuel Martín
Antonio Molino Rojo
Rosita Palomar
Paco Sanz
Paolo Magalotti
Massimo Sarchielli
Ottaviano Dell'acqua
Alberto Dell'acqua
Antonio Vico
Aldo Sambrell
Ivan Scratuglia
Silla Bettini
Crew
Erasmo Bacciucchi
Albert Band
Albert Band
Massimiliano Capriccioli
Franco Cirino
Giovanni Corridoni
Luciana Fortini
Alberto Gallitti
Louis Garfinkle
Renato Iaboni
Guido Josia
Ugo Liberatore
Ugo Liberatore
Bruno Nicolai
Aiace Parolin
Fernando Pescetelli
Carlo Rustichelli
Fausto Saraceni
Selig J. Seligman
Michele Trimarchi
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Notes
Produced in 1967 as Escondido; alternative Italian title: Un minuto per pregare, un istante per morire. Also known as Dead or Alive. Working titles: McCord and Prodigal Gun.
