Franco Nero, Jose Bodalo, Loredana Nusciak

A coffin-dragging gunslinger enters a town caught between two feuding factions, the KKK and a gang of Mexican Bandits, and is caught up in a struggle against them.

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Unrated, 1 hr. 31 min.

Directed by: Sergio Corbucci

Release Date: April 6, 1966

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DVD Release Date: September 24, 2002

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  • October 19, 2009
    This is a pretty good movie that must have seemed like a revelation to those raised on John Wayne horse operas. The man with no name is called Django in this movie, widely regarded as the other movie that kickstarted the entire spaghetti western genre. Coming out about two year...( read more)s after Clint Eastwood's and Sergio Leone's A Fistful Of Dollars, Django somehow was the one that actually caught on in a huge way in the foreign market. Lacking virtually all of the operatic aspects of Sergio Leone's great spaghetti westerns, Django is nonetheless one of the all time greats of the genre.

    The hero wears black, the bad guys twirl their moustaches and laugh, the girls dance between the line of demure and slutty, and guns are the answer to everybody's problems.

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  • January 10, 2009
    Sergio Corbucci's italo western "Django" has very often been copied and quoted and is still one of the best European films of the sixties. "Django", played by the great Italian western and thriller actor Franco Nero, established the total anti-hero opposed to traditional western ...( read more)values. He wears dark clothes, is dirty and unshaved, rude and selfish, corrupt and uses unfair tricks in gunfights. But he also stands on the site of the weak and lost ones, fighting the power alone with his fast colt and machine gun that he drags behind him in an old coffin.

    The whole movie is violent and ark and dirty - and fascinating from the very fist scene to the surprising final showdown. Django is a modern myth, a cool comic figure and the creative art output of the change of social values in the 1960's. And it's no wonder that the 1968 students like Django as well as middle class school kids or film critics... next to Clint Eastwood's roles in the Sergio Leone spaghetti westerns and Charles Bronson in "Once Upon A Time In The West", "Django" is a great modern European western opera with guns and horses and blood and a roaring gattling gun and with no space left for love, hope and traditional values. Highly recommended!
  • October 14, 2007
    Fun spaguetti western starring Franco Nero, and one of the raddest theme songs ever made. The man fits the main role perfectly as your usual silent-cold-as-stone killer, and while the plot is your average Yojimbo-esque stuff, the film has plenty of creative situations and killing...( read more) to keep one interested.

    Don't go expecting this to be a Leone flick of course, while Leone was more epic and poetic Corbucci takes a more raw and dirty approach to the western theme. Also don't botter with all the spin-offs and pseudo-sequels, this is the original and only one (the Tomas Milian version seems to actually be good, haven't seen it yet). Let's see how Takashi Miike's remake turns out. There's plenty of material here to improvise a whole new story.
  • September 13, 2007
    A good remake of Fistful of Dollars.

    It has possibly quirkiest/awesomest theme some ever.

    This film was inspiration for both Rodriguez's and Tarantino's first films.

    Well worth checking out.
  • April 18, 2007
    One of the best early Italian Westerns. Nero is perfect and Corbucci makes things dark but fun, bloody but comic-bookish and weird but never off-putting. Let me put it this way: it's better than A Fistful of Dollars but not as good as The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (and certain...( read more)ly not as good as Once Upon a Time in the West or Corbucci's own Companeros.) It's silly, I know, but you've got to love that coffin-dragging anti-hero. Check it out if you like Italian Westerns.
  • October 23, 2009
    Django (1966)

    I loved the theme song. It's a very 60s cheesy spaghetti western. :-) What was this fascination that Europe had with the American western? I liked the movie alright, but it was hard to listen to the dubbed voice they gave Nero in this movie. Loredana Nusciak i...( read more)s beautiful, but she was just there to react to what was going on around her and to fall in love with Django.

    The movie begins with a shadowy character dragging a coffin behind him. Django rescues Maria (Nusciak) between some banditos and some klansmen, who seem to be competing over who should be the group to torture and kill her. She follows him back into this ghost town, to the brothel where Maria works and sets her back up.

    Django has this knack for pissing people off by just being there, and he proceeds to start killing off clansman and Mexican bandits alike, especially with the little help inside of his coffin. It was an alright spaghetti western, but the dubbing could have been a lot better.
  • August 17, 2009
    An incredible cult movie. The elements look quite unreal but this only adds to the grotesque quality of the picture.
  • August 15, 2009
    Warning: This is not an underground expose of the house music scene and DJ Ango. It's about some damn cowboy.
  • July 22, 2009
    I gave the film 5 stars. The first half deserves 10! It is a highly existencialistic film. One of the best films ever made.
  • April 6, 2009
    Great western. Django is probably the only other spaghetti western of the same caliber as Leone's classic's. It has the same stylish camera work, and great gun fights. The cheesy theme tune, and some terrible dialogue are two minor faults, of an otherwise awesome western.

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