Pistol for a Hundred Coffins

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Pistol for a Hundred Coffins
PistolaPerCentoBare poster.jpg
Directed by Umberto Lenzi
Written by Marco Leto
Vittorio Salerno
Produced by Alvaro Mancori
Starring Peter Lee Lawrence
John Ireland
Cinematography Alejandro Ulloa
Music by Angelo Francesco Lavagnino
Release date
  • 1968 (1968)
Language Italian

Pistol for a Hundred Coffins (Italian : Una pistola per cento bare, Spanish : El sabor del odio (The Taste of Hate), also known as A Gun for One Hundred Graves and Vengeance) is a 1968 Italian-Spanish Spaghetti Western film written and directed by Umberto Lenzi and starring Peter Lee Lawrence. [1] [2]

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  1. Marco Giusti (2007). Dizionario del western all'italiana. Mondadori, 2007. ISBN   978-8804572770.
  2. Roberto Poppi, Mario Pecorari. Dizionario del cinema italiano. I film. Gremese Editore, 2007. ISBN   8884405033.