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Fernando returns home from his self chosen exile in Texas to get revenge for the death of his siblings but instead he tries to start a revolution against the despotism of the landowners.

A cheap and somewhat implausible spaghetti western

This is a pretty good Italian western for the undemanding viewer. The first half of the film is extremely intriguing and violent; there&#39;s a man buried in the ground up to his neck whose head gets trampled by horses in a most gruesome fashion, a rape of an innocent woman, and much time devoted to the mournful mother of the victims. She walks across the border to Texas to find her other son Fernando, who, along with his sidekick Paco, will avenge his siblings&#39; deaths and kill the evil tyrant Don Enrique, who is responsible for these deaths (and many other atrocities). Fernando returns to find Don Enrique tossing loaves of bread to the poor, oppressed villagers in a most condescending fashion, and one of the tyrant&#39;s men even goes so far in his cruelty as to shoot at a baby. Fernando tries to enlist his friend Cipriano, but Cipriano is a notorious &quot;bandito&quot; now, so Fernando has second thoughts. But they team up and that&#39;s when things get complicated . . . TOO complicated for the film. From this point on, despite some great scenes and interesting gun battles and fistfights, the film just gets &quot;too busy.&quot; Characters disappear; a Gatling gun comes out of nowhere; we see many gallows in Don Enrique&#39;s town but no real hangings, etc. The English-dubbed version of &quot;Pray to God . . .&quot; I saw may have been a cut one -- it had an 84 minute running time -- but the jumpy and somewhat illogical second half of the film disappoints a little after a very promising, somewhat stylish first half.<br/><br/>Robert Woods is quite good as Fernando and the supporting cast is effective too despite their sometimes confusingly-motivated characters. All in all, this isn&#39;t a top-notch Italian western, but fans of the genre will enjoy it despite its flaws.

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Pray to God and Dig Your Grave

PRAY TO GOD AND DIG YOUR GRAVE is a somewhat nondescript spaghetti western that has a decent opening before getting bogged down in over-plotting and a cast of too many characters. The main character is the usual vengeance-seeking gunslinger while the bad guys are a mean bunch of rapists and murderers who bury a guy up to his head in the sand and have a horse trample his head in the film&#39;s most memorable sequence. The rest gets worse as it goes on, ending up a mere jumble of incoherent action scenes and random plotting. The heroes are ill-defined and the picture quality is very poor, at least on the version I watched on Amazon Prime. Plus some of the scenes are extremely implausible, like the assault with a Gatling gun that takes down a conveniently-placed row of soldiers atop a hill without injuring a single horse!

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Pray to God and Dig Your Grave

Dig this movie and don't be so grave

A cheap and somewhat implausible spaghetti western

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