Second to Die

Starring:Erika Eleniak, Jerry Kroll, Colleen Camp, Kimberly Rowe, John Wesley Shipp, Jf Pryor, Amy Beth Reece, Paul Winfield, Margaret Avery, Jackie O'Brien, Brooke Davis, Rebecca Reese, Marshall R. Teague, Lorna Scott
Director: Brad Marlowe
Studio: New Concorde
Product Type: DVD

Average customer rating:

And 1/3rd of an hour for things to start making sense
Atmospheric Spaghetti Western
solid sixties spaghetti western
Good "Spaghetti" Western
a movie that i thoroughly enjoyed

A Minute to Pray, a Second to Die
Starring: Alex Cord , Arthur Kennedy , Robert Ryan , Enzo Fiermonte , and Renato Romano
Director: Franco Giraldi
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
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ASIN: B0001GF2K6
Release Date: 2004-05-25

Customer Reviews:

And 1/3rd of an hour for things to start making sense.......2005-12-21

Six minutes into A MINUTE TO PRAY, A SECOND TO DIE I'd seen one chase, one ambush, and one quasi-Freudian flashback. Without a Clint or a Lee van to latch onto, I wasn't even sure who I was supposed to be watching, although I guessed right and kept my eyes on the blond guy with a bad case of the shakes.

Blond Alex Cord plays outlaw Clay McCord, a hard case bad guy tracked by bounty hunters, spurned by a town marshal played by Arthur Kennedy - even though there's an amnesty in effect - and resented by his fellow outlaws. Whip quick and deadly accurate with a gun, McCord is more or less a standard-issue spaghetti western protagonist - proficient, humorless, a two-dimensional loner in a dangerous world. Most of these quote unquote heroes are difficult to impossible to warm up to, and most spaghetti westerns are analogous to tossing a scorpion into a boxful of fire ants. There's a good chance you'll see an interesting fight or two, but you won't much care who crawls out of the box at the end.

In any event, after around twenty minutes or so the plot kicked into gear and the movie began to gain some serious momentum. McCord suffers from periodic, debilitating seizures - a bad case of the shakes that mimics the epilepsy his father suffered from. Not a good thing for a gunslinger who lives, or dies, on nerves and reflexes. McCord's search for a doctor takes him past Kennedy's town, where the governor's amnesty is mocked and bounty hunters are paid off on the sly, to the dingy town of Escondido. Escondido is a typical spaghetti western town, something of a cross between a hippie commune, a Hells Angels' boot camp and a leper colony. Oh, yeah, and there's a doctor hanging around in a back alley - right behind the house where the model-beautiful peasant girl lives alone, huddling in a dark corner of her hovel, ripe pickings for a shaky, sullen stranger with a strong need to lay low.

I sat down to this movie expecting to hate it, but found myself enjoying it quite a bit. At about the halfway point Robert Ryan appears as the bare-knuckle, amnesty-granting governor who has a strong desire to bring the elusive McCord into the fold. It may simply be the reassuring presence of Kennedy, and especially Ryan, that sold me on A MINUTE TO PRAY. Cord certainly seems to turn it up a notch in his scenes with these Hollywood veterans. The story was unusually strong for the genre. There's something about a handicapped hero that lends itself to a strong plot. Cord may not have the gritty, laconic charisma of Clint Eastwood - or even Lee van Cleef, for that matter - but by the end of the movie I found myself rooting for him. A moderately strong recommendation for this one.

Atmospheric Spaghetti Western.......2004-06-11

Alex Cord is excellent as the stoic outlaw Clay McCord in this atmospheric Spaghetti Western. Hunted by both the law and the lawless he manages to overcome seizures that paralyze his gun-hand. Flashbacks give insight into the psyche of this unlikely hero. Arthur Kennedy, Mario Brega and Robert Ryan also star in this interesting movie but Alex Cord's performance is the real high point of this movie.

solid sixties spaghetti western.......2004-06-08

This was originally released to the English speaking world as Dead or Alive - which makes a lot more sense when you consider the storyline concerns bounty hunters, a town full of outlaws and a crooked sherrif offering amnesty. Alex Cord (whose big chance at stardom with Stagecoach came to grief two years before this film was made) plays an outlaw who's lightning fast on the draw, until he's wracked by shaking fits. Flashbacks reveal his father was an epileptic, and Cord is terrified that the same fate is in store for him. Although it's not up there with the classics (Django, Texas Adio, Keoma, The Bounty Killer), this is an enjoyable example of the sort of westerns the Italians were churning out in the sixties: silly dialogue, plenty of gunfire, lashings of sadism (the villains drowning a hapless civilan in a pool of oil; Cord being beaten to a pulp before being suspended by ropes above the town; a priest being tortured and gunned down) and the ubiquitous Mario Brega and Aldo Sambrell as leering, sweating bad guys. My only complaint is that this is the edited version - from the reviews I've read that were written in the 1960s, the film had a downbeat ending that sounded similar to The Great Silence.

Good "Spaghetti" Western.......2002-09-25

As a western I give this show a "5", as a movie maybe a "3", but this is a western from 1967 and I think it's as good as the ones Eastwood was doing then. Alex Cord plays the role of "Clay McCord" well. A gunfighter with bad memories of his Pa, who had epilepsy when McCord was a kid. Cord is an outlaw with blazing guns, lightning quick speed and accuracy. The law and bounty hunters are after him and his partner. He's worth 10,000; dead or alive. But McCord has a big problem: He's getting the "shakes", like his Pa used to have. At times he loses the use of his right arm due to this. This isn't good because he's right handed and anytime he has these "attacks" he is totally vulnerable. But the governor of New Mexico (Robert Ryan) has offered amnesty to any outlaw who turns himself in. He offers them a second chance and a clean slate. McCord is interested in obtaining amnesty, his problem is only going to get worse and he knows that eventually someone is going to get him when he becomes disabled with the shakes, especially when he puts a strain on his right hand.

a movie that i thoroughly enjoyed.......1999-01-09

a western from yesteryear with mr alex cor

Average customer rating:

what a twist...
Rent it
OK Plot, not spectacular...

Second to Die
Starring: Erika Eleniak , Jerry Kroll , Colleen Camp , Kimberly Rowe , and John Wesley Shipp
Director: Brad Marlowe
Manufacturer: New Concorde
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ASIN: B000060MVZ
Release Date: 2002-04-23

Customer Reviews:

what a twist..........2005-11-10

I've always been a fan of Erika Eleniak since her Playboy and Baywatch days. I think overall,her best movie is Chasers with Tom Berenger. This movie isn't bad. It's got a complex plot and an ending that maybe Hitchcock would have dreamed up sooner or later. In fact i gave it 4 stars for the twist at the end.
Erika sadly shows no 'flesh' in this flick but like i said,it's a pretty decent story.

Rent it.......2003-09-10

Not a bad film, good story and a thick plot.
Not sure what to make of Erika in this film. She seem a little bored and couldn't be bothered with it!!!
Rent it first and then buy if you like it

OK Plot, not spectacular..........2002-10-24

Well the most important issue is that Erika Eleniak never takes her clothes off during the whole movie. That was quite a let down.

Average customer rating:

what a twist...
Rent it
OK Plot, not spectacular...

Second to Die
Starring: Erika Eleniak , Jerry Kroll , Colleen Camp , Kimberly Rowe , and John Wesley Shipp
Director: Brad Marlowe
Manufacturer: Walt Disney Video
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ASIN: B000C1VB46
Release Date: 2006-02-07

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Sara Morgan (Elena Eleniak) thought her husband's (John Wesley Shipp) murder would solve all her problems. But as she soon discovered ... one murder is never enough!

Customer Reviews:

what a twist..........2005-11-10

Rent it.......2003-09-10

Not a bad film, good story and a thick plot.
Not sure what to make of Erika in this film. She seem a little bored and couldn't be bothered with it!!!
Rent it first and then buy if you like it

OK Plot, not spectacular..........2002-10-24

Well the most important issue is that Erika Eleniak never takes her clothes off during the whole movie. That was quite a let down.

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Second to Die

Manufacturer: Screen Media Ventures
ProductGroup: DVD
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ASIN: B000LMPM8W
Release Date: 2006-12-21

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