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List Price: $14.98 | | Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Salesrank: 20987
Released: May 17, 2005 |
| Our Price: $4.12 |
| Used Price: $4.10 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Saddle up for a thrilling tale of heroes and villains in this "thought-provoking" western with "an ending that is truly different" (Film and Television Daily). Starring "tall, dark and handsome" (Hollywood Citizen-News) Clint Walker (Sam Whiskey) and the legendary Vincent Price(The Pit and the Pendulum) in one of his most colorful roles, this action-packed drama aims high and hits its mark! After serving 18 years, "Killer" Cain (Walker) is released from prison, determined never to touch a gun again. But the only job he can get is with Dan Ruffalo's (Price) traveling sideshow as the sharpshooting main attraction. As Cain works to build an honest future free of bullets and bloodshed, his enemies look to settle old scores. Now Cain must risk his new lifeto become the "Killer" once more or be haunted by his past forever.
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About the Rating? 
2009-07-15 - Why is this film rated R? That is the biggest question I have to pose in this review. I have researched this movie thoroughly and have found differing information. It was originaly rated GP (the equivalent of PG-13) in 1969. A 2005 re-rating saw it rated R for some violence...
Is it really a rated-R movie? No one seems to know. Some comment on its hard-edged graphic violence. Others say that although the violence was bad for the time, by todays standards the blood shown on screen really isn't that bad and only needs a PG-13... One reviewer even commented that the film was extremely clean and differed from the trashy movies of today in that it can be watched without a remote...
One reviewer mentioned that the DVD version was edited, another said that it contained both the edited and non-edited versions on different sides of the disk.
[...] called it Questionable for children...
So the question arises, "Is this really a rated-R movie."
The answer:
I don't know.
I have not seen this movie and would appreciate it if someone would write a review detailing the violence, sexual content, and language contained in this film, as I am (a Clint Walker) considering buying it for family viewing...
Any information would be appreciated...
A teenage film buff.
Clint Walker
2009-07-04 - I LOVE Clint Walker which is the only reason that I ordered this movie since he did not make that many. I was disappointed - it was weird with no plot
"never holster an empty gun" 
2008-12-03 - Made just before the "wild bunch" this features several bloody shoot-outs with vincent price getting a gun(in slow-mo)emptied into him. Much of the movie has walker unsuccessfully re-starting his life after leaving prison. His past as gunfighter keeps him from getting hired anyplace where he is known, his limited work is ruined by old enemies and some new ones, it is hard to keep track of how many people want him dead. A friendly carnival owner(price)is only out to exploit him while his other young sharpshooter tests cain's skills and patience. Painfully, he meets a good, loving woman, that he knows he can't have around when his past frequently catches up to him. The beginning hanging/prison break scene gets the movie off to a good start. My favorite scenes are when "killer kane" teaches the young cocky fast-gun lessons that are soon to be tested for real, and kane's ending fight with former "tarzan" mike henry. Clint Walker is his usual cool self with Vincent Price good in a totally different role.
Title says it all 
2006-11-05 - Below-average man-running-away-from-his-past western starring Clint Walker as Cain, Killer Cain, a man who'd carved 12 notches on his death-dealing pistol before the authorities caught up with him and threw him in the jug for 18 years. MORE DEAD THAN ALIVE catches up with him at the time of his release when he, a reformed man, tries to build a new, law-abiding life.
Of course, disappearing into the moiling crowd is easier when you don't stand 6'6" and don't have the physique of a circus strongman. Cain finds himself bouncing from job to job every time his true identity is inevitably discovered, and the only job he's able to keep is in Ruffalo's (Vincent Price) traveling shooting show, playing himself, once again wielding his notched gun for the oohing customers. The job pays well - he's a big attraction - and it might just pay enough to allow him to settle down with frontier painter Anne Francis. That is, if he's able to avoid the outlaws with a grudge against him - the one's who pop in and out of the movie - and the fast-drawing, sharp-shooting, young sociopath star of the shooting show, Billy (Paul Hampton.)
Alright, it's a little creaky, but it's a serviceable enough premise that might have worked. Walker is miscast in the lead role. He's too gentle, laid-back, and quiet to convince us he was ever a cold-blooded gun-for-hire. His signature role was as Posey in `The Dirty Dozen' - Posey was a quiet introvert who became deadly when Lee Marvin starting pushing him around and making fun of his name. Walker was believably deadly when provoked, he isn't believable as a calculating killer. To its credit, the movie does have one `you're breaking my hand!' scene, with Walker as the provoked hand-breaker, but even that could have been done better. Price, who could give 110% pure ham in little movies like this is relatively restrained and, therefore, wasted. Hampton, as the slick shootin' Billy, does pour it on and does his part in dragging this movie down.
For its time MORE DEAD THAN ALIVE was pretty violent, but that was a long time ago. What might have lured them to the drive-in back then is yawn producing today. There are an awful lot of under-the-costume exploding blood pellets, and slow-mo dying scenes, but all they do is slow down an already slowly paced movie. Not recommended.
Enjoyable Western. 
2006-09-05 - Just to clarify,my DVD has both the Edited and Unedited Version.
So I would suggest,check the flipside as well.
Interesting storyline with twists galore,during the action-packed final 20 minutes.
