| A Morte Comanda o Cangaço | |
| Director: | Carlos Coimbra Walter Guimarães Motta |
| Producer: | Marcelo de Miranda Torres |
| Starring: | Alberto Ruschel Aurora Duarte Milton Ribeiro |
| Music: | Enrico Simonetti |
| Cinematography: | Tony Rabatoni |
| Editing: | Carlos Coimbra |
| Distributor: | Cinedistri |
| Studio: | Aurora Duarte Produções Cinematográficas |
| Runtime: | 100 minutes |
| Country: | Brazil |
| Language: | Portuguese |
A Morte Comanda o Cangaço is a 1960 Brazilian Western action film directed and co-written by Carlos Coimbra and Walter Guimarães Motta.[1] Shot in Pernambuco, it stars Alberto Ruschel, Aurora Duarte, and Milton Ribeiro in a fiction about cangaço in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.[2] It was entered into the 11th Berlin International Film Festival.[3] The film was also selected as the Brazilian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 33rd Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.[4]