Alive or Preferably Dead

Free Classic Full Movie: Alive or Preferably Dead - Two brothers, Monty and Ted, will inherit $300,000 if they manage to live together for six months.

Alive or Preferably Dead (1969):
Director: Duccio Tessari
Writers: Ennio Flaiano (story), Giorgio Salvioni
Stars: Giuliano Gemma, Nino Benvenuti, Cris Huerta
Country: Italy | Spain
Language: Italian
Release Date: 15 May 1970 (West Germany)
Also Known As: Sundance Cassidy und Butch the Kid
Filming Locations: Cinecittà, Roma, Italy

Storyline:
Estranged brothers Monty (Giuliano Gemma) and Ted (Nino Benvenuti) Mulligan must live together for six months in order to cash in on their inheritance. Not surprisingly, they fall in love with the same girl (Sydne Rome) and complications ensue.

Reviews:
“In order to claim an inheritance, fancy-pants Giuliano Gemma, a problem gambler, must go west and live with his brother for six months. Though they don’t like each other very much, the two use the time to embark on an inept crime spree that keeps getting interrupted by a gang of real criminals.

A genuinely likable and often times really funny western comedy, this is a good showcase for Italian western superstar Gemma, who gets to show off his charisma, as well as his prowess as an action star, doing all or most of his own stunts.

There’s some good action action sequences here too, including a rowdy bath-time punch-out/gunfight and an exciting train robbery climax, all leading to a finale that actually rips off the final scene of The Graduate!” Written by FightingWesterner via IMDb.com

“Not all of the slapstick works, but there are more hits than misses. Frankly I think the humor and production values are better here than all but the first of “Trinity” western-comedies. The English dubbing is not “awful,” as one reviewer stated. It’s actually better than in many spaghetti Westerns. I liked the attention to detail in the depiction of even minor characters, like the bank employees & dishonest doctor who encases one brother in a total body cast. While I agree the American distributors were guilty of giving this film an terrible “let’s cash on on a better movie” title, I don’t think seeing the prelude would have added much.The picture already seems a bit too long, with a throw in the kitchen sink approach to the screen writing (“Then’s let’s have them try this and fail, an then this…”), when a plot more focused on one or two criminal acts might have been better. I also watched this as part of the Mill Creek 20 pack, mostly to get Monte Hellman’s “China 9, Liberty 32” and “The Big Gundown” I have only found one (so far) that was truly unwatchable (“Apache Blood”). My main complaint is being deprived, in most cases, of seeing the films in the original Techniscope widescreen process (similar to Superscope but invented at Technicolor’s Italian lab), which, through setting the number of frames per inch of film higher in the camera, used only half as much film as Cinemascope or Panavision did. Some complained they could see more grain in the projected image in theaters, but in many cases that worked to the film’s advantage, contributing to a gritty washed out look. As with Superscope (now called Super 35), the anamorphic squeeze was done in the lab on an optical printer, enabling the directors to use normal rather than expensive anamorphic lenses in shooting these movies. Unlike Techniscope, Superscope used a normal frame in the camera, so did not save any film stock. The price of film stock was a large part of the cost of making feature movies back then. Now, with digital video, it’s not an issue.” Written by azjimnson via IMDb.com

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