If You Meet Sartana Pray for Your Death
If You Meet Sartana Pray for Your Death is a 1968 film from France, West Germany and Italy, directed by Gianfranco Parolini, running 95 minutes. reelscum files it under spaghetti western.
- Year
- 1968 · 1960s films
- Country
- France · West Germany · Italy
- Runtime
- 95 min
- Director
- Gianfranco Parolini
- Updated
- 10 Aug 2026
- Obscurity
- cult (44/100)
- Also known as
- Gunfighters Die Harder · If You Meet Sartana... Pray for Your Death
Defined in the glossary: Spaghetti western
The gadget-gunslinger spaghetti west arrives fully dressed in black.
Gianni Garko glides through a four-way double-cross over a strongbox of stolen gold, dressed head to toe in black and carrying trick weapons a stage magician would envy. This is the film that launched the Sartana series, the gadget-gunslinger wing of the spaghetti west, where the hero is less a character than an unkillable card-sharp who always knows more than everyone in the room. Gianfranco Parolini directs it as a conjuring act, all misdirection and sudden reveals.
Nobody in it can be trusted and none of it needs to make sense.
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