The Price of Power (Italian: Il prezzo del potere) is a 1969 Spaghetti Western directed by Tonino Valerii.

The film stars Giuliano Gemma as the hero Bill Willer who tries to get revenge against the killers of his father while at the same time trying to prevent an assassination plot against president James Garfield (played by Van Johnson, with José Suárez playing Vice President Chester A. Arthur) in 1881.

The film's concept was conceived by Massimo Patrizi, Luigi Comencini's brother-in-law, and serves as an adaptation of the story of John F. Kennedy's assassination in the form of a Western.

[4] Valerii commented that he did not remember Patrizi's script word-for-word, but described it as "extremely basic, whereas Gastaldi and I deepened it.

We established the essential themes to develop, introduced the character played by Fernando Rey, the banker who is also the assassination's mandator, and so on.