in a minute to pray and a second to die and clay mccord ( alex cord ) be an unhappy outlaw with a ten thousand dollar bounty on his head and degenerative epilepsy . realize his day a an outlaw be number and he want desperately ( though somewhat reluctantly ) to take advantage of an amnesty be grant by rough and tumble territorial governor robert ryan and ( excellent performance ) who badly want mccord to renounce his way and accept the amnesty a an example to others while in the bandit hub of escondito and outlaw mario brega plan to kill mccord to stop that from happen . also star arthur kennedy and aldo sambrell and a slew of other familiar european face and this be co write and produce by ( american ) spaghetti western pioneer albert band and also responsible for the pre leone film gunfight at red sand . though the solution to the main character epilepsy be lift straight out of howard hawk el dorado and the script be solid and pretty fresh and unpretentious . this have a great balance of action and story and alex cord be great in it . he really should have be a big star . in defense of the shorter ( well dub ) english version represent personally i be past that age where the long version be always the good version and the end where mccord be ironically gun down by grimy bounty hunter after his pardon and be needlessly nihilistic and completely destroy the film message about hope and redemption . call me old fashion and but i root for mccord and felt he earn that happy end .