63%User score 63 percent
Django, Prepare a Coffin
1968 · Western · Action
User Score
73 votes
A handful of condemned men on an impossible mission, against hopeless odds...
A dishonored Union Army officer leads a group of convicts to retake Fort Holman from the Confederate Army.
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John Chard
February 9, 2017
The Dirty Seven. Una ragione per vivere e una per morire (AKA: A Reason to Live, A Reason to Die & Massacre at Fort Holman) is directed by Tonino Valerii, who also co-writes with Rafael Azcona and Ernesto Gastaldi. It stars James Coburn, Telly Savalas & Bud Spencer. Cinematographer is Alejandro Ulloa and the music is scored by Riz Ortolani. Plot sees Coburn as Union Colonel Pembroke, who during the Civil War is given…
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CinemaSerf
February 14, 2026
This might have worked better had it not taken us forty-five minutes to get to the business end - there is just way too much explanatory preamble telling us why disgraced “Pembroke” (James Coburn) is determined to recapture a fortress he was compelled to surrender during the US Civil War. It’s now occupied by “Maj. Ward” (Telly Savalas) and a platoon of very heavily armed Confederate soldiers. What does “Pembroke” ha…
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