God Forgives... I Don't! (1967) poster
1967 · heist · hill-spencer · colizzi · debut

God Forgives... I Don't!

Directed by Giuseppe Colizzi1h 53m1967
ElsewhereIMDb6.249TMDB6.6284
  • sombre
  • brisk
  • intense
Movie DNA

Sombre, kinetic, measured heist / hill-spencer, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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In this violent spaghetti western a murderous robber hijacks a payroll train, murders everyone aboard and then stashes his loot. A gunslinger learns about it and decides he wants the money for himself and so hatches an elaborate plot to get at it. He lures the crook into a rigged poker game, and afterward a gunfight ensues. The quick-drawing gunman makes short work of the robber, then teams up with an insurance agent to look for the hidden fortune. Unbeknownst to them, the robber had an ace up his sleeve...

Our read · God Forgives... I Don't! (1967) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded heist · hill-spencer · colizzi entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

Cast
Terence HillBud SpencerFrank WolffGina RovereJosé Manuel Martín
Where the cast leads
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same tone
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adjacent
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near DNA
Terence Hill
actor path
Django, Prepare a Coffinsame toneAce Highsame toneWatch Out, We're Madnear DNA
Bud Spencer
actor path
Ace Highsame toneA Reason to Live, a Reason to Diesame toneThe Five Man Armysame tone
Frank Wolff
actor path
Kill Them All and Come Back Alonesame toneA Few Dollars for Djangosame toneCaliber 9near DNA
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The shape of God Forgives... I Don't!

Tonight, this looks like

What watching it is actually like.

“You want a violent gritty spaghetti western with train robbery, torture and a tense desert showdown.”

ends unsettlingyou’ll be fine aftergrabs you earlygrips by minute 3attention 3/5earns its length
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upgraphic violencegore

Skip it tonight — You prefer light buddy comedies or modern westerns without brutal 60s violence.

If God Forgives... I Don't! is your film
For a Few Dollars More (1965)
spaghetti western bounty and antihero tension
The Big Gundown (1967)
tense pursuit and moral gray spaghetti
(you want more comedy)
Face to Face (1967)
Colizzi-style violent character study western
(prefer later Hill-Spencer lighter tone)
DNA · twelve axes

The reading.

Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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