Django Kill - If You Live, Shoot!

Starring:Tomas Milian, Ray Lovelock, Piero Lulli, Milo Quesada, Miguel Serrano, Roberto Camardiel, Ãngel Silva, Sancho Gracia, MarilÃ¹ Tolo, Francisco Sanz, Mirella Pamphili, Patrizia Valturri, Herman Reynoso, Frank BraÃ±a
Director: Giulio Questi
Studio: Blue Underground
Product Type: DVD

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Consensus holds that Django, Kill--more properly, If You Live, Shoot!--is the most depraved, decadent, and altogether delirious spaghetti Western of that definitively depraved, decadent, and delirious genre. Tomas Milian plays a Mexican outlaw brought back from the dead to wreak vengeance on his former gringo colleagues. Too late: the gang has already fallen afoul of the most thoroughly corrupt town in Euro-trash history. Where to begin describing this twisted tarantella? It starts with so many crisscrossed flashbacks that you could mistake it for a sequel. One story pretty much ends, to be succeeded by another, like an old silent feature by people who used to making one-reelers. Then there's Mr. Sorrow and his pet army of black-shirted, teeth-flashing gay gunslingers. And the naked Milian, crucified and left to be ravished by rats, bats, and an iguana. Director Giulio Questi intended certain political overtones. Discuss among yourselves. P.S.: This is the uncut version. --Richard T. Jameson

Customer Reviews:

Bloody Western But No Real Spark.......2007-06-25

I'd heard about DJANGO KILL for a couple years before actually bought the DVD. Unfortunately, I got information about the movie second hand. I thought the movie had to do with zombies. There weren't any zombies, sadly, but there was a guy who came back from the grave for vengeance. That was one of the recurrent themes in the Clint Eastwood movies as well as several other western films.

The star of the movie is Tomas Milian. He made several of the Western movies before moving into the crime arena as a series of villains and renegade cops working outside the rules like Bruce Willis. He's still active in television and movies today while he's in his seventies.

DJANGO KILL is supposed to be one of the bloodiest westerns ever filmed at the time, in the late 1960s. In fact, the disc contains scenes that had been cut out in the film release. Of course, this is before Sam Peckinpah left his indelible mark on the Western movie with classics like THE WILD BUNCH and PAT GARRETT AND BILLY THE KID. But only by a few years.

The movie really isn't much different than any of Eastwood's Man With No Name Westerns. Except that there's no humor or comic relief in the constant sea of shifting loyalties that takes place in this film.

Most of the so-called spaghetti westerns end up with a tough-as-nails hero who is selfishly motivated but finishes up serving some greater good by the end of the movie. Normally he is caught in a crossfire between two rival gangs, neither of which is truly better than the other.

That occurs in this film. After being shot and buried alive, Django (the stranger) rides into town seeking the people who killed his friends and tried to murder him. By the time he arrives, those bad guys have already been dealt with by the town. As it turns out, the town is filled with people that are evil and malicious.

For whatever weird reason, the two Indians that help save Django make bullets of gold for him to use on his enemies. It almost sounded too much like the Lone Ranger for me.

Then the plot gets really strangely twisted. Two of the most powerful men in town divide the gold the original outlaws brought with them. A third powerful man finds out about the gold and wants it. He's willing to kill whoever it takes to achieve his goal.

For the rest of the movie, Django bounces back and forth between the three rivals, between two women - one a gold digger and the other a madwoman, and the town itself. The body count increases dramatically.

I can't really recommend this movie. There's nothing here that you haven't seen before, and probably better elsewhere, if you've seen spaghetti westerns. All of Clint Eastwood's efforts were better in my book. But if you love that kind of entertainment, DJANGO KILL will certainly fill a couple of hours for you.

Suckest Western Movie I ever seen.......2007-03-30

What can I say of something that bad?
This movie sucks.
I waste my money and time buying this pathetic movie.

It was okay.......2006-07-10

For the record it is not Django Kill, he does not carry a unique gatling gun. This movie is really called "Oro Hondo" (meaning "Deep Gold" in Spanish and Italian) or "If You Live Shoot!" in most countries in Europe. The movie is kindof creepy, still the movie could have been better. For example, the love scene didn't really out the movie together, the dubbing needs lots of work, the theme music was in some scenes constantly(kindof annoying) but the plot was just okay (just could have been better). The only reason why I gave it three stars was because of Tomas Quintin Rodriguez aka Tomas Milian.

terrible trash.......2005-08-27

I purchased this movie from amazon because of the online reviews.
This film is terrible. Bad acting, directing, and poor editing... there is a scene where you can see truck tire tracks in the sand. Tomas Milan seems to have little concern about anything that is going on around him.
I have no Idea how this trash achieved such a cult following.
I own a large number of spagetti westerns and this one is by far the worst. Even for the 60's this is a bad film.. period.

The Man With The Golden Bullets.......2005-05-29

I found myself enjoying this movie quite a bit. I'm a sucker for spaghetti westerns of all quality. This one is actually a good film made a bit silly by some poor dubbing. Naturally, it's not up to a Leone level, but it's a bit above alot of the lesser known westerns to come out of Italy. The title is a lame attempt to make this look like a sequel to Django, but it's it's own film. Tomas Milian get doublecrossed out of his gold(It's always about the gold in these films) and left for dead, but soon he's up and running again and pissed! He wants a supersized order of revenge more than he wants his gold. In fact, he seems to lose his interest in the gold, though he gets all tangled up in this mess with the townspeople who are all trying to get their mitts on it. Milian never once says, "Hey folks, this friggin' gold you're fighting over is mine, thank you!" His quest for the doublecrossing bandits leads him to the "Unhappy Place" where adults stomp on kids, undertakers have dry heaves and crazy wives bite their husbands. This town makes quick work of the outlaws before Milian gets there, but once he does he gets tangled up in all sorts of crap, playing all sides kinda like Eastwood in Fistful Of Dollars. While in "The Unhappy Place", Milian gets drunk, gets tortured with stock footage of bats and lizards, blows up a horse with dynamite, sleeps with a crazy woman who sets herself on fire, shoots a guy and admires himself in a mirror, and finally gets away without a penny to his name. A fun movie with a few artsy touches. Two scenes are in Italian coz they weren't dubbed-these are the two bloody scenes. Milian does a rather good job as "The Stranger. He looks alot like C. Thomas Howell. Maybe not quite as badazz as Franco Nero's Django, but he's got a bit more depth. It's actually kinda cool to see a "hero" as being half Mexican, which you don't see alot in westerns. Recommended.

Average customer rating:

Bloody Western But No Real Spark
Suckest Western Movie I ever seen
It was okay
terrible trash
The Man With The Golden Bullets

Django Kill... If You Live, Shoot
Starring: Tomas Milian , Ray Lovelock , Piero Lulli , Milo Quesada , and Miguel Serrano
Director: Giulio Questi
Manufacturer: Blue Underground
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B00007ELDK
Release Date: 2003-01-07

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Description

Tomas Milian stars as a half-breed bandit double-crossed and left for dead who rises from the grave to seek his revenge in a bizarre town called "The Unhappy Place," where he's plunged into an odyssey of gruesome torture, graphic violence and sexual depravity. Considered the strangest and most controversial Spaghetti Western ever made, this film from director Giulio Questi (Death Laid an Egg) and co-writer/editor Franco Arcalli (co-writer of "Once Upon a Time in America" and "Last Tango in Paris") shocked the world with its hallucinatory tale of greed, corruption, perversion and beyond. Also known as "Se Seivio Spara" (If You Live, Shoot!), this definitive presentation has been created from original Italian negative materials with all of its infamous scenes of savagery and slaughter now fully restored for the first time ever in America!

Customer Reviews:

Bloody Western But No Real Spark.......2007-06-25

Suckest Western Movie I ever seen.......2007-03-30

What can I say of something that bad?
This movie sucks.
I waste my money and time buying this pathetic movie.

It was okay.......2006-07-10

terrible trash.......2005-08-27

The Man With The Golden Bullets.......2005-05-29

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