billcr12 I love Quentin Tarantino films. He admits to being heavily influenced by foreign movies, most especially the original Django. Both the Hateful Eight and Django Unchained show just how much Q.T. borrowed for these joints. I finally caught up with this 50+ year old gem and I recommend any fan of Clint Eastwood's spaghetti westerns watch as Franco Nero does an Italian version of a lone man against the world. Here he has plenty of enemies to battle and a beautiful damsel in distress to fight, mostly red necks and Mexicans. The ninety minute movie is a perfect solution to pass a dull evening.

Bezenby Not so much the Man with No Name, but the first of a flood of Spaghetti Westerns where there's a Man with One Name: Django! (Followed by Sartana, Cemetery, Ringo, Trinity, Nowhere, Sabato etc etc).This films opens with a man in a stained Yankee uniform dragging a coffin through a muddy landscape, before rescuing a beaten women from death by burning by a bunch of fashionable Klu Klux Klan types (who in turn had just massacred a bunch of Mexicans who were whipping this woman). This is Django, and he's a moody type played by Franco Nero but dubbed by a guy who kind of sounds like Clint Eastwood.Django is all about being mysterious and staring at things, and doesn't take too well to another load of red-hooded racist types who turn up at the local whore house to shoot Django. Their leader, Jackson, is a bit miffed that someone popped a cap into his soldier's arses, so Django invites him next time to bring ALL his soldiers, and he'll fix them up proper, see. And when he's done with them, he'll sort out those Mexican fellas too! But why is Django doing this? What's he keeping in the coffin? Will he hit it off with hooker Maria? Why does the town look like God took a crap on it? This is kind of similar to Fistful of Dollars but you'll get no complaints from me - You may well see the same plots over and over again in these films but the fun is in how these Italian directors add their own stamp to things, similar to the way that Italian artists would draw the Madonna and Child over and over.I won't say too much about this one as it's shown on the telly all the time and is one of the more obtainable Spaghetti Westerns. Followed by many films with Django in the title, like Django Kill! If you live, shoot! Django The Bastard, Django Prepare a Coffin, Django Vs Sartana, Django's Cut Price Corpses and Django Prepares a Powerpoint presentation on Tourism in Glasgow City Centre.As John Peel said about the spaghetti western: Always different, always the same.

Spikeopath Django is directed by Sergio Corbucci and it stars Franco Nero, José Bódalo, Loredana Nusciak, Ángel Álvarez and Eduardo Fajardo.Django (Nero), dragging a coffin behind him, saves a woman from some bandits and soon finds himself in the middle of war between two factions - which he may be able to use to his advantage.1966 was a stellar year for Spaghetti Westerns, Leone was putting the crown on his "Dollars" trilogy, Damiani produced a political firecracker and Sollima crafted one of the finest "manhunt" Oaters of this sub-genre. Then there is this, Django, a Pasta Western that is synonymous with the form.I fought for the North!Django is a treat, it's violent and cruel, funny and cheeky, and pleasing on the eyes and ears - so pretty much it contains all the best things that made the original wave of Spaghetti's so palatable. Undeniably it owes a "lot" to A Fistful of Dollars and Yojimbo, but it's still its own beast, a baroque Gothic piece of work that positively revels in nihilism. The graphic violence is wonderfully cartoonish, the iconography unbound, and in Nero - eyes likes chips of ice - the pic has one of the coolest and baddest men on the planet. Nusciak brings the sex and sizzle, coming off like a Spag Raquel Welch, whilst the villains are delightfully vile and scuzzy.The setting is superb, a muddy cold hell of a town with a brothel as the fulcrum of the piece. Naturally there's a cemetery, which will play host to some of that iconography mentioned earlier. Religion gets short shrift, racial prejudice given a caustic once over, while it's worth mentioning there's more than a hint of social realism pulsing away as Corbucci brings the blood and thunder. OK! It's light in plotting, and it's not even Corbucci's best film, but the stylised violence, the visuals and a cracking soundtrack easily take you away from the fodder of the story.It would spawn a multitude of rip-offs, name checks and influence a whole host of film makers, but this is the real deal. A Spag Western worth revisiting to see just when it was a sub-genre of quality, this before hundreds of poor band wagon jumpers began to soil the Spaghetti Western name. 8.5/10

John-Jude Without the genius of Sergio Leone most spaghetti westerns are usually trash.Django bucks the trend and is a fast paced,action packed addition to the genre.Nero turns in a charismatic performance in the title role though the dubbing leaves a lot to be desired.Not the terrible lip synching which you expect(if not demand)but the performance of the actor delivering Django's lines.He seems merely to be reading off a piece of paper with little attempt to convey drama or emotion.That said the action keeps coming and things are never allowed to drag in the films lean running time.It's violent for sure with an extremely high body count.Lets just say practically everyone who spends any significant time on screen ends up dead-though the cartoonish nature of the violence means the sqeamish wont have too much problem with it.However it's clearly a total rip off of Eastwood's Man With No Name and basically just a good exploitation flick so for that reason it deserves no more than a six out of ten.