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Pistola con doce cruces (1969)

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Pistola con doce cruces

39 opiniones
7/10

I was sold by the prospect of Vincent Price in a Western.

  • Hey_Sweden
  • 4 jun 2016
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7/10

Better Than Average "B" Western

More Dead Than Alive turns out to be a surprisingly entertaining and fairly well-acted B movie.

Clint Walker gives his typical "gentle giant" performance as Killer Cain, a convicted murderer who is released after 18 years in prison. After a senseless prison shootout in the beginning of the movie, you expert this film to be nothing more that a "shootem-up". However, once Walker's character is released from prison, the movie becomes a well-acted drama about such topics as prison reform, parole, murder, hero worship, forgiveness and the desire for fame.

More Dead Than Alive's best performance is from Horror King, Vincent Price as Dan Ruffallo, a carnival barker with a traveling gun show. It's one of Price's best latter career performances.

The kicker in More Dead Than Alive is the shocking surprise ending. So, if you're a fan of Clint Walker or Vincent Price, More Dead Than Alive is the film to see.
  • BachlorinParadise
  • 19 nov 2005
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6/10

Decent western about a known gunfighter , Clint Walker , is freed from prison but his former life haunts him and he wants to be a peaceful reformed man

This actioner Western packs emotion , adventures, fights , crossfire , twists and turns . Famous gunslinger 'Killer' Cain (recently deceased Clint Walker) is released from prison after 18 years, he wants to settle down as a rancher in Las Rinas and never touch a gun again , as well as look for a job to carry a quite life and peace . Cain has a particular code of survival and lives in a brutal land of violence , being dogged by foes , but he is having difficulty adjusting to life back on the outside . However , nobody wants to give him a job, some nasty people also wish to pay him back. So he has to accept the offer of showman Ruffalo (Vincent Price) to perform as "Killer Cain" in his traveling shooting show and in his World Museum . As the horse-drawn carriage has a museum where exhibits various ítems : Guns from St. Louis train robbery , Cochise knife , Lincoln colt and Cain gun . As Cain participates at the sensational , phenomenal spectacle as a sharpshooter, an infamous gunman with his 12 notch colt . Meanwhile , Cain falls in love for two men , a Golden Condor Saloon girl and the painter named Monica Alton (Anne Francis) . Nevertheless , after 18 years without practice even Ruffalo's young assistant Billy (Paul Hampton) shoots better than Cain. Furthermore , Cain is being chased by a mysterious stranger and then old troubles resurface .Gunslinger Rebellion -Winner kill all! Killers in pairs... death by the dozen... They left the west... More Dead than Alive.

It is a pretty nice film , though a little bit slow-moving , that could become another western worthy of any anthology due to its offbeat , outlandish elements . The film is divided in year seasons : Winter , Spring ... and it has a twilight style in which Old West has died and the starring cannot adapt to the modern West where there are bicycles and some unpaid moral debts . Highlights of the movie are the impressive images at the beginning , when takes place a spectacular prison break-out with machine-gun included , and a lot of grisly killings . Interesting and stirring screenplay by the notorious George Schenck , still working . Clint Walker gives an acceptable acting as the ex-cold hearted , and multiple killer who he is forced to take a job with a traveling sideshow earning a living off of a past he wants no take part . Along the way Cain/Clint Walker stumbles upon an opportunity for love with the always beautiful Anne Francis . Clint had a long career , his film debut was Ten Commandments (195) , as he met actor Henry Wilcoxon, who introduced him to director Cecil B. DeMille, and Walker found himself playing the part of a Captain of the Guard . Someone from Warner Bros. saw the film , found out that Walker was under contract to producer Hal B. Wallis, bought up Walker's contract and gave him the lead in "Cheyenne" , this series was a huge hit . However, Walker was dissatisfied with the way Warners was handling his career -- they would let other contract players make films, for example, but he wasn't allowed to -- and that triggered a dispute which ended up with him taking a walk from the show. He and Warners eventually settled their disagreements . When the show ended Walker began to get supporting parts in features, his biggest and most successful one being Dirty Dozen (1967). He starred in the not-so-well received None but the brave (1965), a WWII film that was Frank Sinatra's one and only stab at directing. The tall Clint did his own stunts and performed a lot of westerns and TV series as the successful Cheyenne , Yuma, White Buffalo , Pancho Villa, The bounty man, and the well-received the Night of Grizzly (1966) by Gordon Douglas and Baker's Hawk (1976), and turned in a good performance as a villain in the TV movie Scream of the Wolf (1974) .He is accompanied by the great Vincent Price as a propietor of a World Wide Museum , the biggest little show in the territory . Along with a good support cast such as Paul Hampton , Craig Littler , Mike Henry and Emile Meyer .

The motion picture was well directed by Robert Sparr , at his best . He was an artisan who directed speciallly for TV , making several episodes from famous series as Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea , Batman , Jim West , Star Trek , Bonanza , The Dakotas , Gallant men , Lassie , The outcasts , The Roaring 20's , and Cheyenne that spawned countless other western series, from Warners and other studios . And eventualy he directed for Big Screen, such as A Swingin' Summer and this More Dead Than Alive . Rating : 6/10 . Passable and acceptable .
  • ma-cortes
  • 22 oct 2018
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7/10

If you seek an offbeat western...

I saw this film many years ago on TV and have never found it in any video store but would be well worth the rental fee for an evenings entertainment, if I could ever find it. Such is the impression it left me with. Around this time period, the Hollywood western had reached its nadir, what with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid et al, and was on its way out. I can think of a couple other offbeat westerns that appeared around this time, but nothing quite like this. For one thing, you have Vincent Price in it! Vincent Price in a western?! This is not a horror film, but it does have an interesting story line with good pacing, tight direction and an unexpected ending. Clint Walker, a much under-appreciated actor, plays a former gunfighter trying to live in peace apart from his past. Price heads a traveling quick draw show that comes into town and this is where the fun begins. Anne Francis is the love interest, Paul Hampton (whatever became of him?) is very effective as the young gunfighter wannabe. Do not miss this if you get the chance.
  • rj-27
  • 6 sep 1999
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7/10

Entertaining and different take on the western theme

More Dead Than Alive might not do much for a lot of western fans, and the reason for that is that it's so different from the rest of the genre. The western hero is meant to be big, strong, uncaring and a real sharp shooter; and in this film, that is everything that our central character used to be, and now he's going straight. For that reason, it might be more advisable to go into this film expecting more of a drama than a western as that's essentially what it is; a drama set in the once-wild west. Our central character is a man named Cain, who earned the nickname 'Killer Cain' thanks to the twelve notches on his revolver. After eighteen years behind bars, the killer is released but while he's no longer on the run from the law; he faces a different challenge as the West that put him behind bars is not the West that he's being released back into, and he quickly discovers that getting a job with his reputation is not the easiest thing to do. The only man who wants to employ him is circus ringmaster Ruffalo; but Cain lacks practise and the young assistant Billy is a better shot.

Aside from provide a different sort of western, the film also tries to do a few other things and unfortunately there just isn't time for it all. There's a romance angle which stems off the main plot and that doesn't get nearly enough time spent on it, while the action sequences we do get feel more like an afterthought. My main reason for seeing this film is undoubtedly the presence of the great Vincent Price, who gives a memorable performance in a supporting role. Clint Walker takes the lead role and while it's not a standout performance and he looks a little young and clean to have been behind bars for eighteen years; he does make for a likable lead. Paul Hampton is a real standout, however, as the cocky young villain of the piece. The film provides good entertainment for the duration and it's not exactly taxing stuff, which ensures that the film is always enjoyable enough. The ending was a bit of a disappointment to me as certain characters were killed by the wrong people; but all in all, this is a memorable film and is recommended if you want a decent hour and a half of entertainment.
  • The_Void
  • 19 jul 2008
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A real schizo western!

Despite its eccentric cast, MORE DEAD THAN ALIVE seems to be forgotten - for one thing, it's not even listed in the Leonard Maltin movie guide, and has never been released on video or DVD. Forgotten or not, it's one strange western! It starts off with a grisly (and lengthy) action sequence where the blood flies, then becomes sedate until near the end, where it suddenly turns grisly and bloody again! Inbetween it's a somewhat meandering but occasionally interesting western, with some bizarre directorial touches (like how many times a cut to another scene is done by someone or something walking straight up to the camera), but all the same has you wondering how this sympathetic ex-gunfighter will end up. You probably won't guess it, considering how the final scene had my jaw slack right open! Probably still worth seeing just for the chance of viewing Vincent Price in a western.
  • Wizard-8
  • 14 dic 2003
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6/10

Going, Going....

Clint Walker is just out of prison after 18. He murdered a man and paid the price. Actually, he murdered a dozen, and so his hopes of getting a job, buying a ranch and never strapping on a gun again are futile. Instead, he becomes an attraction in Vincent Price's traveling shooting gallery. Because he hasn't handled a gun in almost two decades, he's slow and has poor aim; Price's assistant, Paul Hampton, is much faster and more accurate, but he has no reputation, and it eats at him.

The closing of the west was a frequent theme of the more ambitious American westerns of the 1960s, and ths is an examle of one; it's not just the west that's closing down, but its myth, of two-fisted fighters who face each other in the street, with only one walking away. This is a lesser example of the subgenre, but it's still good to watch, especially the scenes with Anne Francis as the woman Walker is sweet on, and who returns the feeling.
  • boblipton
  • 19 ene 2021
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7/10

A near miss

"More Dead Than Alive" is almost a really good movie but it misses the mark for some reason. There are three or four terrific scenes in this movie. There are also a lot of stuff that doesn't work. The cheapness of the production hurts this movie. It looks like a tv movie of that era more than it looks like a theatrical film. Clint Walker has always been hit or miss with me but he delivers a very nice performance. With the exception of Vincent Price, the supported cast is kind of weak. Paul Hampton does a nice enough job but he's a least ten years older than the character is supposed to be. I watch "More Dead Than Alive" every once in a while. It's a mostly satisfying watch.
  • pmtelefon
  • 12 sep 2020
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3/10

What Were They Thinking?

  • lnbalich-42968
  • 28 mar 2021
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7/10

Clint Walker IS 'Killer' Cain

  • zardoz-13
  • 19 oct 2010
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4/10

More Convoluted than Coherent

  • JoeB131
  • 22 jul 2014
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8/10

" Didn't anyone ever teach you, . . never holster an unloaded gun? "

There are many films which the great actor Clint Walker made and a few became the foundation for the rest. In this film, which is one of his best, called " More Dead than Alive " is directed by Robert Spar and written by George Schench. It relates the unusual story of a multiple murderer, called Cain, (Clint Walker) who has paid the standard price for murdering several men, by serving nearly twenty years in prison. Now that he's out, he finds a job with Dan Ruffalo's (Vincent Price) wild west show. Earning honest money, Clain decides to capitalize on his infamous legacy while at the same time trying to go straight. Unfortunately, Cain's past is slowly creeping in on his peaceful life-style and it only a matter of time before it catches up to him. At the same time, Clain tries to teach Billy Valence an envious and arrogant reputation-seeking gun-slinger (Paul Hampton) not to make the same mistakes he made. The story is a moral one which has influence many a writer and director in the following movie years. For Walker, the least we can add is that this film has become a Classic. ****
  • thinker1691
  • 24 abr 2011
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7/10

Good, not great, worth a shot.

More Dead Than Alive is a decent film that starts off with a lot of great action, but it gets slow at times, especially with Ann Francis, who just plays a minor role in this movie. Paul Hampton who stars as Billy carries the movie with hilarious acting, but excellent! I am a big Clint Walker-Vincent Price fan, and the reason I purchased the DVD is because I wanted to see Vincent Price in a Western. He did a good job as did Clint, but if it were not for Paul Hampton; this movie probably would not fly. After viewing this movie, I have become a Paul Hampton fan, great performance! For anybody who is a Clint Walker fan, I highly recommend the movie "Snow Beast". For those viewers who love Westerns, More Dead Than Alive should be included in your library, because of good acting, action, uniqueness, repressed humor, and it is enjoyable.
  • minadog-1
  • 3 abr 2008
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1/10

It was a 7 until the last minute!

Wow what a stupid ending! Just turn it off right when it says "Fall." I'd have been mad if I paid for that. Who's the studio exec that said yeah, let's end it like that! SMH
  • james-patrick-732-463468
  • 30 nov 2020
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6/10

MORE DEAD THAN ALIVE (Robert Carr, 1969) **1/2

  • Bunuel1976
  • 21 may 2011
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Great Performances Make Routine Western

More Dead Than Alive (1969)

** 1/2 (out of 4)

Notorious gunslinger "Killer" Cain (Clint Walker) gets out of prison after eighteen years for killing a man and he can't quite learn to deal with the current times. He ends up working for a traveling show ran by Dan Ruffalo (Vincent Price) who makes money showing off gunfighters from the past. Before long Cain's past is trying to catch up with him and a young kid (Paul Hampton) who becomes jealous.

MORE DEAD THAN ALIVE is certainly a flawed picture but at the same time it's one that's very much worth watching if you're a fan of the genre. The strange thing about this picture is that fact that it's incredibly old-fashioned and you have to wonder why the studio would make a picture like this when the various Italian Spaghetti Westerns were taking over theaters. Was this an attempt to try and milk money out of people who weren't happy with the new style?

With that being said, what I enjoyed most about this picture were the performances, which I found to be excellent. Walker dose an excellent job in the lead role as a man wanting to get away from his past and not return to violence. I thought Walker was very believable in the role and he certainly made the character someone you cared for. Price is wonderfully delightful in his role as the carnival barker who always has the smart thing to say. Anne Francis does a good job in the role of the love interest and there's no question that Hampton is great as the villain.

The film's plot is pretty predictable and I'd argue that the film really doesn't do anything original. The story of a bad man trying to stay out of trouble really isn't anything original and there's certainly nothing fresh done with it here. The film does go on a bit too long but as I said there are quite a few very good things about it. Not only the performances but you get some nice cinematography, some great locations and there's no doubt that the film is fun for what it is.
  • Michael_Elliott
  • 7 jul 2018
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6/10

Interesting, unusual, and sometimes a letdown

More Dead Than Alive tries to be different than most Westerns, and for that I commend it.

I was intrigued by the inclusion of Vincent Price as the promoter of a gun show. Price was a perfect choice for the role, adding a combination of eccentricity and friendliness toward the main character, Cain. Clint Walker, playing Cain, truly was a mammoth of a man, and his stoic demeanor does not do much different, but gets the job done. No longer is he the "Killer Cain" who gunned down 12 men, but rather an older, wiser man who wants to put his criminal days behind him after serving time. Paul Hampton (Billy) certainly had the most unusual and oftentimes annoying role, whether due to his acting or what the script called for. Billy has a glamorized idea of the Old West, while Cain tries to convey to him the realities of shooting, killing, and surviving. I was surprised More Dead Than Alive is not a Spaghetti Western because it certainly brings that vibe in its cinematography, grittiness, and soundtrack. There is not much in the way of violence after the first scene, but the uniqueness of each character will be more than enough to keep you entertained.

As to what the film does not execute so well: the time jumps. Sometimes it works, particularly when Cain has long conversations with Billy about his criminal past. However, when it jumps a season ahead into the future the audience can be left wondering how the plot progressed to such a point with not enough answers given. Still, all that could be forgiven if the last 10 minutes were not so unfulfilling and rushed. More Dead Than Alive desperately needed another 10-20 minutes to its runtime to flesh out the relationships between the characters and revise the ending. Since I do not give spoilers, I will leave it to you to see for yourself.
  • WeAreBrainPolice
  • 18 ene 2022
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6/10

Clint Walker as an ex-con in Arizona and Vincent Price a Western show barker

In 1891, a former gunfighter (Walker) gets out of prison in Yuma and is taken aback by how things have changed in the two decades that he's been locked up. While he tries to stay away from guns, he settles for a trick-shot artist at a traveling show (ran by Price). He deals with a rash young buck (Paul Hampton) while taking interest in a lovely artist (Anne Francis).

"More Dead Than Alive" (1969) is similar to the great "Bandolero" from the year prior, but with a lower budget, a meandering script, and less attention to detail (e.g. The vintage Schwinn bicycle with chrome and plastic parts). Seven years later "The Shootist" would borrow the basic plot with a bigger budget, just exchanging John Wayne for Walker's part, Ron Howard for Hampton and Lauren Bacall for Francis.

The opening Gatling Gun sequence feels contrived, which destroys realism, but the corresponding prison set is impressive. It, incidentally, was built in the mid-50s by Columbia Pictures for $118,000 and was used in the popular Star Trek Gorn episode, "Arena," as Cestus III. Hampton plays a "kid" who's about 19 years-old, but was 31 during shooting and looks it.

If you can roll with the questionable issues, you can't beat Walker as the masculine protagonist or Vincent Price in a rare Western. I was able to enter into the world of the characters and care for the protagonist and his potential mate. Unfortunately, the ending leaves a bad taste and reflects the 60s after JFK's murder, which isn't helped by the horrid offbeat song.

The film runs 1 hour, 40 minutes, and was shot at Vasquez Rocks in Agua Dulce, which is just north of Los Angeles in the desert high country. The mine-fight sequence was filmed at Bronson Caves, which is 15-20 miles due south of there. The town scenes were done at a movie ranch in the area.

GRADE: B-
  • Wuchakk
  • 6 abr 2024
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7/10

Confusing Bipolar movie.

This movie is been given a R rating. This movie starts out PG 13. Then it becomes PG up until the last 20 minutes of the movie then it becomes R rated for the violence. Then it becomes PG again for about 3 or 4 minutes then it goes to a R rated ending. The ending was horrible and could of been better. Lousy music score at the end. I don't get happy music to a tragic ending? I think a more dramatic song like Johnny Mathis song Walking tall would of been a better song. If this movie were made now it would of been released direct to video or a made for t.v movie. I have to say Clint Walkers performance, Vincent Prices and Mike Henry's performance was wonderfully done. I do not know where this movie was going. One minute it was going in the direction of a TV western, another minute it was going for a theatrically released action western. It is almost like watching a combination of Support Your Local Sheriff, Bonanza, The wild Bunch and The Cowboys. The acting however was really superb.
  • etoiwins
  • 4 jun 2013
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5/10

More Dead Than Alive

  • Scarecrow-88
  • 24 may 2010
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7/10

thought provoking western

First off.. "More Dead Than Alive" is available on DVD. The movie is an interesting ,offbeat Western .Perhaps Clint Walker's most accomplished performance(I know, not saying much) as a paroled gunfighter(Killer Kane), not allowed a fair shake by the good citizens of the Arizona Territory. He goes into business with a stovepipe-hatted Vincent Price(subdued) as a side-show trick-shot, but his past still travels with his present.Paul Hampton is a standout as the young fast gun dead-eye(though he's never drawn on a live person).He's like a hopped-up Owen Wilson.The locations are authentic and the situations believable.The score ..kinda goofy.Well worth a look.
  • grubstaker58
  • 11 may 2006
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1/10

Dreadful back-lot western...

Clint Walker, still trying to find his niche as an actor post-"Cheyenne", plays a reformed gunslinger in 1891 Arizona who is set free after 18 years in jail; unable to find work because of his reputation, he takes a job with a low-rent traveling western show. This is the old plot about the once-legendary, now-rehabilitated killer who is constantly put in harm's way by folks hoping to boost their profiles by challenging him. As a young hotshot with a bitchy-sinister stare, Paul Hampton gives one of the most excruciating performances I've ever seen. His overacting is made all the more noticeable by Walker's solemn, funereal under-playing (as if he were going to the gallows any minute). If you do watch, see if you can figure out why the early jail-break sequence takes place AFTER a group of prisoners have already been hanged. The title, presumably a twist on the old "Wanted-Dead or Alive" ploy, is mildly condescending in this context--although it serves to describe the film's handling accurately. * from ****
  • moonspinner55
  • 29 jun 2010
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9/10

Not your average western

This is a western with great direction and a very good cast. It's not your run of the mill shoot'em up. I saw this movie many years ago and have not forgotten it. I have searched high and low for it, but, cannot find a copy anywhere. It's worth the watch!
  • dixiecarson
  • 24 may 2001
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7/10

A must for Vincent Price and/or Clint Walker fans

This is a must for fans of Vincent Price or Clint Walker (I'm a big fan of both). Those who love a departure from the classic Western will enjoy this. I was interested from start to finish.
  • mep1969
  • 25 ene 2021
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3/10

Gatling Gun Geekout Garbage

Just another excessive compulsive shootout orgy but sort of interesting kitsch 'TV production trying a little harder' aura to it. Hilarious post-opening gungasm shootout, the lead character played by Walker admires a poorly painted vintage Schwinn bicycle with plastic seat, chrome handles with plastic grips...it was symbolic of inconsistencies throughout the movie, and this bicycle scene is asking the viewer to "ignore our freelancing on accuracy, we're just throwing props and ideas into the production on the fly, we got some good buds and we're needing anything we can find to put some life into this terrible script only matched by the terrible acting, terrible direction and hasty decisions." The really sorry message of it all is romancing the gun, as if your life without a gun is not manageable.

But it does have some interesting quirks and different than a typical Western. A Western with Vincent Price is going to definitely be quirky. Low expectations namely.
  • sfumatosprocket
  • 6 sep 2021
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