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2	[[caption-width-right:325:''[[{{Tagline}} When You've Waited Fifteen Years To Find A Man... It's A Shame You Can Only Kill Him Once!]]'']]
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4	''Da a uomo a uomo'' ("As man to man"), known in English as ''Death Rides a Horse'', is a 1967 Italian SpaghettiWestern film written by Luciano Vincenzoni (''Film/TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly''), directed by Giulio Petroni, and starring Creator/LeeVanCleef and John Phillip Law.
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6	When Bill Meceita (Law) was a young lad, he watched his mother and sister get brutally raped and murdered by a gang of outlaws. Now, fifteen years later, he has become an expert gunfighter and is out to find and kill the ones who did it. At the same time, an older man named Ryan (Van Cleef) has just gotten out of jail for a robbery the same gang committed. Both men meet up, and go on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge against the gang that wronged them. However, Ryan has a secret that threatens to tear the duo apart.
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8	It has mostly been distributed by Creator/UnitedArtists, but has also been released by Creator/{{Sony}} in Australia and Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox in the Netherlands.
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11	!!This film contains examples of:
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13	* BaitAndSwitchGunshot: [[spoiler:After Bill and Ryan take down their mutual enemies, Ryan allows Bill to kill him for his involvement in the murder of Bill's family. However, due to Ryan's assistance and the fact that he didn't actually participate, Bill shoots an outlaw about to kill him instead.]]
14	* BestServedCold: Bill trains for 15 years before going after his family's killers. Ryan waits the same amount of time to go after the gang for framing him because that's his prison sentence.
15	* BigBad: Mr. Walcott, the leader of the gang who killed Bill's parents.
16	* {{Blackmail}}: Ryan's initial revenge plan is to blackmail the men who framed him for $15,000: a $1,000 for every year he spent in prison.
17	* BlastingItOutOfTheirHands: One of Cavanaugh's bouncers shoots the glass out of the hand of the barred patron Bill brings into the saloon. Bill returns the favour by shooting the gun out of his hand.
18	* BoundAndGagged: After being captured by Walcott's gang, Ryan is kept bound and gagged in the back of a wagon. After they rob the bank, the gang cuts him loose and dumps him unconscious out of the wagon to be caught by the {{Posse}}.
19	* BuriedAlive: Walcott has Bill buried alive from the neck down as punishment for opposing him.
20	* DestinationDefenestration: During the fight in Burt Cavanaugh's saloon, Bill punches a bartender out through a window.
21	* DistinguishingMark: Burt Cavanaugh, one of Bill's targets, has a tattoo of four aces on his chest. Another one, Pedro, has a scar near his eye. A third wears a distinctive earring.
22	* DramaticGunCock: Two of the guards in the opening scene dramatically cock their lever-action Winchesters before they go out to investigate the noises: although all this would do is eject an unfired shell from the rifle.
23	* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Pedro is an outlaw, but he goes ''absolutely ballistic'' and nearly whips Bill to death after he kills his equally-evil brother Manuel.
24	* FrameUp: 15 years before the main plot, Ryan was framed by the villains for armed robbery. When he's released from prison and goes after them, their leader frames him again for robbing his bank.
25	* GottaKillEmAll: Bill hunts down his family's killers one by one, knowing each of them by a distinguishing mark.
26	* GreatEscape: After Ryan is framed for bank robbery, Bill breaks him out of jail.
27	* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Ryan was a member of Walcott's gang before being double-crossed. However, he didn't participate in any of their rapes and murders, and assists Bill in stopping them when he gets out of prison. Bill lets him live due to this fact.]]
28	* InsideJob: Walcott worms his way into getting the state's public works fund transferred to his bank, which he plans to rob so he can be the only millionaire in the Old West.
29	* MightyWhitey: Over the course of their vengeance quest, Bill and Ryan save a Mexican village from the bandits they're pursuing.
30	* AMinorKidroduction: Bill is introduced as a child watching his family be slaughtered by the villains.
31	* MolotovCocktail: During the final assault, two of Walcott's {{Bandito}}'s toss firebombs through the windows of the building where Bill and Ryan are holed to drive them out into the open.
32	* MorallyBankruptBanker: Walcott, the leader of the outlaws, used his ill-gotten gains to found a bank. He's just as corrupt in his banking dealings, planning to rob his own bank when the state transfers one million dollars into it.
33	* OneBulletLeft: [[spoiler:Bill has tracked down and killed the men who murdered his family when he was a child, except for one, who turns out to be his mentor, now out of bullets. The hero gives him one bullet, having a single bullet left in his own revolver. However the man just rides off in a PleaseKillMeIfItSatisfiesYou trope, and the hero's bullet kills another outlaw who'd been about to shoot him.]]
34	* OutfitDecoy: During the final shootout, Bill puts his hat on the end of a stick and pokes it round the corner of the hacienda to trick Pedro into firing at it.
35	* {{Outlaw}}: The main antagonists are a group of Western bandits who slaughter families and frame people with glee.
36	* PleaseKillMeIfItSatisfiesYou: [[spoiler:When Bill discovers that Ryan was one of the gang responsible for the murder of his family, he wants to kill him. Ryan tells him that they need to deal with Walcott and his gang first but, if they are both still alive after that, he will willingly allow Bill to kill him.]]
37	* RapeAndRevenge: The film concerns a young man's quest to kill the outlaws who raped his mom and sister before killing his entire family.
38	* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: A young man who had has family murdered and an older man who was framed for robbery by the same gang team up to take down their mutual enemies.
39	* RunningGag: Ryan and Bill develop a habit of saving the other one and then stealing his horse so he cannot follow.
40	* SandNecktie: Bill is buried up to his neck in the square of a Mexican town, partly as torture and partly as a makeshift prison.
41	* SleepingDummy: The two men who have been trailing Ryan ever since he was released from prison break into his hotel and shoot the form under the blankets on his bed. Ryan, who is seated on a chair in a darkened corner of the room, them lights the lamp and guns the two of them down.
42	* ATasteOfTheLash: Pedro goes absolutely ballistic and nearly whips Bill to death after Bill [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes kills his equally-evil brother Manuel]].
43	* TrapDoor: Walcott has one in front of his desk for when deals go wrong.
44	* VigilanteMan: Bill and Ryan go vigilante to take down Walcott's gang. In fact, Bill actively refuses to become a sheriff's deputy in order to not be shackled by due process.
45	* WorkingOnTheChainGang: The first shot of Ryan following the 15 year TimeSkip is the irons being struck from his leg as he is released from the chain gang; showing that he has spent the intervening years in prison.

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