A dishonored Union Army officer leads a group of convicts to retake Fort Holman from the Confederate Army.
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James Coburn
Colonel Pembroke
Bud Spencer
Eli Sampson
Telly Savalas
Major Ward
Reinhard Kolldehoff
Sergeant Brent
José Suárez
Maj. Charles Ballard
Francisco Sanz
Farmer
Ángel Álvarez
Scully the Monger
Mario Pardo
Roger, Farmer's Son
Ugo Fangareggi
Ted Wendall
Concha Rabal
Director
Tonino Valerii
Screenplay
Rafael Azcona
Tagline
"A handful of condemned men on an impossible mission, against hopeless odds..."
Status
Released
Original Language
IT
Production
Atlántida Films, Europrodis, Heritage Entertainment Inc., Les Films Corona, Sancrosiap
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...
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. Wha...
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