usual gunfights as a last resort"). In his investigation of narrative structures in Spaghetti Western films, Fridlund counts Shoot the Living and Pray for the Dead among the many stories about an infiltrator with a hidden agenda that took their inspiration from A Fistful of Dollars. Quentin Tarantino ranked the film 16th in his personal "Top 20 favorite Spaghetti Westerns". References External links 1971 films 1971 drama films 1971 Western (genre) films Italian drama films 1970s Italian-language films Films directed by Giuseppe Vari Spaghetti Western films 1970s Italian films