Story Line
A dishonored Union Army officer leads a group of convicts to retake Fort Holman from the Confederate Army.
“A handful of condemned men on an impossible mission, against hopeless odds...”
Top Cast

James Coburn
Colonel Pembroke

Bud Spencer
Eli Sampson

Telly Savalas
Major Ward

Reinhard Kolldehoff
Sergeant Brent

José Suárez
Maj. Charles Ballard
Francisco Sanz
Farmer
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Rating
6.2/ 10
Release Date
1972-12-27
Runtime
1h 32m
Genres
Western
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User Reviews (2)

John Chard
7/10
•2/9/2017The 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 Sav...

CinemaSerf
6/10
•2/14/2026This 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 compelle...






