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God Forgives… I Don’t! (1967) Spoiler-Free Summary – What It's About

Release, runtime and language
1967 · 113 mins · Italian
Directed by
Giuseppe Colizzi
Starring
Terence Hill, José Canalejas, Frank Wolff, Frank Braña, Luis Barboo, Gina Rovere

They call him Pretty Face, a gunslinger with a simple creed. A robber hijacks a payroll train, murders the crew and hides the loot. The gunslinger learns of the theft, lures the crook into a rigged poker game and, after a gunfight, defeats him. He then teams with an insurance agent to find the hidden fortune, unaware the robber has a secret ace.

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  2. 2 Is it worth watching?
  3. 3 After you watch
  4. 4 Movie threads
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The plot of God Forgives… I Don’t! (1967) without spoilers: what it is about, who it follows and where it takes place, told without the twists or the ending. Enough to decide whether it is your next watch, not enough to ruin it.

In a sun‑baked frontier where dust settles faster than promises, the townsfolk live under a fragile truce between opportunity and lawlessness. The landscape is riddled with winding tracks, isolated outposts, and the ever‑present hum of a train that carries the hopes of a week’s wages through dangerous territory. A gritty, almost mythic atmosphere pervades, where every clink of a coin or crack of a gun can tip the balance, and the line between hero and outlaw blurs as easily as the horizon at sunset.

Out riding the endless plains is Pretty Face, a gunslinger whose reputation is as sharp as his aim. Known for a simple, unyielding creed, he lets his actions speak louder than any boast, earning both admiration and wary respect wherever he roams. His calm demeanor masks a lethal precision, and he moves through the world with the confidence of a man who has already measured his own limits against the chaos around him.

When a daring payroll train is hit and its cargo disappears, the ripple reaches Pretty Face’s ears. Drawn into the aftermath, he confronts the shadowy figure behind the heist, testing his skill in a high‑stakes poker game that ends in a tense gunfight. The encounter leaves him paired with Hutch, an insurance agent whose practical sensibilities clash with the gunslinger’s lone‑wolf ways. Together they set out to trace the hidden fortune, each carrying their own motives and a hint of an undisclosed ace that could change the balance of power in this unforgiving landscape.

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