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| Directed by | Tonino Valerii |
| Produced by | Michael Billingsley Tullio Odevaine Alfonso Sansone Arthur Steloff |
| Written by | Rafael Azcona Ernesto Gastaldi Tonino Valerii |
| Starring | James Coburn Telly Savalas Bud Spencer |
| Music by | Riz Ortolani |
| Cinematography | Alejandro Ulloa |
| Editing by | Franklin Boll Franco Fraticelli |
| Country | Italy |
| Language | Italian |
A Reason to Live, a Reason to Die (aka Massacre at Fort Holman) is a 1972 spaghetti western movie starring James Coburn.
Many exterior scenes were filmed at the Fort Bowie set built in the Province of Almería, Spain, where the desert landscape and climate that characterizes part of the province have made it a much utilized setting for Western films, among those A Fistful of Dollars, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and later 800 Bullets. The Fort Bowie set was originally built for the film The Deserter.[1]
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In a story derivative of The Dirty Dozen, a colonel (James Coburn) is given a handful of war criminals during the American Civil War to go get his fort back that he lost to Confederate Major Frank Ward (Telly Savalas).
Wild East has released the full uncut version with around 30 minutes extra footage on DVD in the films original widescreen aspect ratio with the title A Reason to Live, a Reason to Die.