Django (1966)

Django: Directed by Sergio Corbucci. With Franco Nero, José Bódalo, Loredana Nusciak, Ángel Álvarez. A coffin-dragging gunslinger and a half-breed prostitute become embroiled in a bitter feud between a Klan of Southern racists and a band of Mexican Revolutionaries.

“Django (Franco Nero – The Fifth Cord, Hitch-Hike) is a gristled man-of-action who strolls the desert dragging his coffin of hell behind him. Django sets up shop one day at the local whorehouse of a veritable ghost town set up between the two warring factions of Major Jackson (Eduardo Fajardo – Nightmare City, Oasis of the Zombies) with his red hooded militia and General Hugo (José Bódalo – Companeros) with his Mexican ex-patriots. Djangou0026#39;s no nonsense style quickly puts him smack in the middle of the fun as secrets are revealed and sides are played against each other.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eSergio Corbucci (Super Fuzz) directs this classic Italian spaghetti western. The script (while being pretty typical of the genre) manages to make Django a classic antihero thanks for the most part to Franco Nerou0026#39;s portrayal. The scriptu0026#39;s lack of originality doesnu0026#39;t stop it from having some clever set-pieces, nasty violence and even a bit of dark humor (some of my favorite sequences: the clearing of the whorehouse u0026quot;Donu0026#39;t Touch my coffinu0026quot;, the u0026quot;earu0026quot; scene and the Mexican skeet shoot). The music is wonderful (topped of by a fun theme song sung by someone trying to channel Elvis). The cast of Italian regulars nail their parts with mucho gusto. Any fan of violent westerns Italiano-style should belly up to the bar and give Djangou0026#39;s coffin of wonders a watch. But donu0026#39;t mess with it”