Kill and Pray

A community of Mexican villagers is lured into a trap and massacred by Southern soldiers. The only survivor is a small boy; a preacher finds him and raises him. Years later the young man sets out to look for his missing stepsister. He is against violence, but once a gun is in his hand he turns out to be a startling shot. The road takes him to the men who killed his family. Carlo Lizzani's spaghetti western is counted among the political wing of the genre. Lou Castel takes the lead. Pier Paolo Pasolini plays a priest in it, and Franco Citti and Ninetto Davoli are in the cast as well. The telling builds the cowboy story on a question of class: those whose land was taken and those who took it. The politics of Lizzani and Pasolini set the tone of the film directly.