Kill and Pray

A Mexican village is wiped out by a band of outlaws loyal to a landowner named Ferguson. One boy survives the massacre and is taken in by a traveling Protestant preacher, who raises him in the faith while also teaching him to handle a gun. Grown into a quiet, devout man, he is known as Requiescant and has become an expert marksman, though he avoids violence. When his half-sister runs away and ends up in a brothel, he sets out to bring her home, and his path crosses that of the men responsible for killing his family.

Kill and Pray was directed by Carlo Lizzani and released in 1967, the first of the four features listed for him, followed by The Violent Four, Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer and Celluloide. Lizzani also produced, while Armando Crispino, Lucio Battistrada and Adriano Bolzoni wrote the screenplay. Lou Castel plays the title role and Mark Damon plays Ferguson, with Pier Paolo Pasolini appearing as Father Juan, alongside Barbara Frey, Rossana Martini and Mirella Maravidi. A German-Italian production, it runs 107 minutes.

Audience response has been steady rather than enthusiastic. On IMDb it holds a rating of 6.5 from around 1,200 votes, and on TMDB it sits at 6.4 from a much smaller pool of 31 votes, suggesting a modest but durable following among viewers of European westerns rather than wide acclaim.