Django

Starring:Franco Nero, JosÃ© BÃ³dalo, Loredana Nusciak, Ãngel Ãlvarez, Gino Pernice, SimÃ³n Arriaga, Giovanni Ivan Scratuglia, Erik Schippers, Rafael AlbaicÃn, JosÃ© Canalejas, Eduardo Fajardo, Luciano Rossi, JosÃ© TerrÃ³n, Silvana Bacci, Remo De Angelis, Guillermo MÃ©ndez, Rafael Vaquero
Director: Sergio Corbucci
Studio: Anchor Bay
Product Type: DVD

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Along with Sergio Leone's Clint Eastwood trilogy, Sergio Corbucci's Django, starring Belgian hunk Franco Nero as the gritty mercenary who drags a coffin behind him, was one of the most influential spaghetti Westerns. After mowing down armies of bad guys with his machine gun (which he brandishes in classic two-fisted tough-guy fashion--from the hip), he stages a daring gold heist from a Mexican military fortress and then plots to double-cross his bandito partners. Corbucci, who cowrote the story, fashions an unrelentingly violent tale of rival gangs squeezing the life out of a muddy, bloody border town, reveling in the sadism of the genre. The film opens with a woman strung up and lashed by a group of lascivious bandits, only to be saved by even more sadistic gunmen who plan to burn her alive, and Django fan Quentin Tarantino borrowed the scene where a vindictive general slices the ear off a corrupt preacher for Reservoir Dogs. While not as stylish as Leone's operatic epics, Django pushed the borders of violence into all-new territory, and the film was banned outright in England and cut in the U.S. It spawned 20 unofficial sequels before Nero returned 20 years later for the only legitimate sequel, Django Strikes Again. In the meantime, Nero followed up this grimy antihero role with a turn as the singing medieval superknight Lancelot in Camelot! Also features a short interview with Nero. --Sean Axmaker

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Django is da man!!!.......2007-03-11

Django is a fantastic film. It's one of the best Spaghetti Westerns out there. The Anchor Bay edition which is out of print is ok as far as the picture goes but the sad thing is the only language track is the dubbed English which is more funny than anything. You need the Blue Underground edition. The picture is fantastic except for a few blemishes. It also has the Italian audio track which to me makes for a far better film. Django is surreal which makes for a good time with the DVD player. Highly recommended.

The Best WESTERN EVER! I MEAN EVER!.......2007-01-11

Only Italians know how to make a western. This is not some Johnny Wayne crap American movie,this movie is even better then the Good,the Bad, and the Ugly Jew, with Clint Westwood :)) Do not listen to the reviews made by some American film buffs or whatever they call themselves, see this movie for yourself. Anyway only a European could appreciate a movie like Dijango!

Excellent release, important film.......2007-01-10

Django is one of the greatest of spaghetti westerns and proof that not only Sergio Leone could make them. The film has a very flimsy plot, but if that's what you're after then a spaghetti western isn't what you should be looking for. It does however excel in most other ways, the editing, photography, way over the top style and even the performances are decent. Franco Nero's tough-and-silent-type charisma has rarely been as effective. This may be the least political of Sergio Corbucci's spaghetti westerns and that is in some ways good and some ways bad (ie making it perhaps more accessible to a mainstream audience, but perhaps making it slightly more shallow at the same time).

Blue underground's dvd is excellent. The transfer is great and you rarely see a 1.66 AR film with a proper anamorphic release but this has it down perfectly. It also has the Italian soundtrack, which is a big plus as the dialogue (what little there is of it) is marginally better than the English. Other extras are fine all round. Word of warning though, the extra disc is a mini-dvd and contains a brilliant short with Franco Nero.

Highly recommended for (spaghetti) western fans especially, but also for anyone with an interest in the World Cinema explosion of the 60's and cult films. Beware of the unbelievably many films called Django something-or-other, there's only one...actually, I also recommend the very different and unrelated Django Kill! also available from Blue Underground.

Uninteresting.......2006-11-19

Once again we have a stranger with a score to settle. Of course, he is lightning fast with guns and never misses. Before it's all over ( I couldn't bear to watch it all) he's wasted scores of Mexicans and Americans both. Why exactly I'm not sure. The story takes a back seat to all the cruel, unusual and gratuitous violence. I don't mind violent movies but I'd at least like to have an interesting story to go with them. I kept trying to like this show. After reading reviews what I imagined sure had the real thing beat. I mean c'mon, a guy who drags a coffin around through the desert to some God forsaken mud hole of a town, just to waste about 300 or 400 guys who go up against him? Why it all matters I don't know. There were so many people getting shot that it was hard to remember what the story was about but it really wasn't worth remembering anyway.

DJANGO!!!.......2006-10-23

I had vaguely heard of this movie. I am a big fan of the Sergio Leone spagetti westerns but have seen very few other westerns of that genre. I also like Franco Nero after being exposed to him the first time in the movie The Salamander. I was looking up some info on Franco and I came across some info on his movies and read about Django. Many said that it was equal to the Leone westerns and that it was darker and more brutal. After watching it, and enjoying Django, I must say that I don't think that it is on par with any of the Leone westerns. That is not to say that it is not good though. When you consider that most of the time they didn't even have a script and that they improvised the script most of the time, it is a pretty entertaining movie. The cast of characters is really good and like Leone the faces that he comes up with to play the parts are all interesting. It is a down and dirty western with lots of mud, dirt, and plenty of really over the top violence including an ear scene that inspired Quenting Tarrentino to film his scene in Resevoir Dogs. The gun play is also cool and Django himself is one cool dude.

This movie of course is dumbed in English. Unlike the Leone westerns I don't think there are any English speaking actors. Nero is dubbed and the guy has the typical hero voice but it is ok (not great and if it was redone I would love to have somebody else dubbed in or Nero himself). I also liked the little documentary interview they did with Franco as well as the trailers they showed.

Again, it's a fun movie and Django and his coffin are dynamite in action!

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Django
Starring: Angel Alvarez , Jose Bodalo , Eduardo Fajardo , Franco Nero , and Loredana Nusciak
Director: Sergio Corbucci
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ASIN: B000PC6Z48
Release Date: 2007-07-24

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Sergio Corbucci's Immortal Classic - Now Restored From The Original Negative!

Franco Nero stars as the lone stranger who roams the West dragging a coffin filled with chaos towards a destiny ruled by vengeance. Co-writer/director Sergio Corbucci (THE GREAT SILENCE, COMPANEROS) packs his landmark classic with indelible images, unforgettable performances and some of the most shocking brutality of any `Spaghetti Western' ever made. This is the still-controversial epic that defined a genre, launched a phenomenon and inspired over 50 unofficial sequels. This is the one and only DJANGO!

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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

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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.

Learn To Play Django-Style Gypsy Jazz Guitar #1

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Swing Rhythm 101

Learn To Play Django-Style Gypsy Jazz Guitar #1
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Release Date: 2004-06-11

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They don't call it "hot guitar" for nothing! The driving style pioneered by Django Reinhardt and other Gypsy players became one of the dominant sounds in jazz during the thirties and forties, and its influence is still strongly felt today. Paul Mehling knows the style as well as anyone, and he takes it apart in detail for the learning player.

A band won't swing without a strong rhythm section, and the powerful guitar accompaniment that typifies the Gypsy style is the foundation of this terrific lesson. Starting with basic four-to-the-bar comping and damping, Paul takes you through a variety of accompanyment ideas: arpeggios, "splayed" chords, "the gallop," chord tremolo, right hand speed and other advanced techniques.

You'll gain an understanding of the particular harmonic structures of this music through chord voicings, progressions, and accompaniments to classics such as "Minor Blues," "Orie ntal Shuffle" and "I'll See You In My Dreams." Paul also provides invaluable advice on learning from recordings, use of the metronome, and a look at his rare Maurice DuPont guitars. Includes some hot jamming with Paul and Tony Mandraccia, rhythm guitar.

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good solid teaching resource.......2006-02-11

Well executed and conceived, though a bit toward the beginning intermediate player... not heavy on theory or scales...
a real good place to start.

Met and exceeded expectations.......2005-03-29

There is a plethora of Jazz teachers, methods and approaches out there - all catering to different skill-levels. This makes it difficult to guess what instruction material will be perfect for what you want to learn. This lesson from leading Gypsy Jazz guitarist Paul Mehling was the happy exception to the rule. The DVD delivers precisely what it promises: a no-nonsense, comprehensive primer to the art of Gypsy-style swing comping.

Actually, I was amazed at the amount of information that Mehling is able to present in a mere hour, including strumming patterns (giving both right-hand and left-hand techniques), chord voicings, connections between accompaniment and lead, bass-like patterns, a brief overview of Gypsy guitar types and some really catchy 2-guitar demos. All this is done in style, with Mehling often referring back to "the" source, the legendary Django Reinhardt. I heard no out-of style voicings, anachronistic "cool-jazz" type dissonances or any other obvious departures from Django's style.

Also, Mehling provides a vast number of practical exercises, practice tips and (what I found especially valuable), points the musician in the right direction as far as self-development in this style. Mehling does not just give a set of pre-canned techniques, but he presents the musical reasoning behind his choices and encourages the student to use musical sense and theory to find more voicings and chord-patterns (within the confines of the style, of course). All this, he does while providing sensible recommendations and suggesting an appropriate pace of study and progress ("don't overshoot and try to sound like Django in a week...").

The accompanying booklet is extremely informative as it presents all the chords that Mehling uses on the video. I would not consider this video to be for beginners, because it assumes a healthy amount of musical knowledge, structural understanding and technical "chops." But for anyone else, it's gold.

I am extremely pleased with this DVD, which I will continue studying diligently. Bravo, Paul Mehling.

Swing Rhythm 101.......2005-02-22

This dvd is great for getting your feet wet in this complex form. Basic strums are covered, as well as some great tricks like splaying chords, "galloping", etc. You'll work through "I'll See You In My Dreams" and "Oriental Shuffle", offering some very useful voicings. Included is a booklet with charts/diagrams. Paul Mehling is a great teacher, and has a very down-to-earth approach that's easy to follow and understand. Definitely worth the price.

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Django.......2007-03-11

This is very well done! It's nice to have all Django's video footage and story on one very well narrated DVD. Only 1 complaint is that the audio tracks at the end don't play well...after the 2nd track, it stops! You can play them by selecting each individually, but makes it less useful if you want to listen to the music.

Learn To Play Django-Style Gypsy Jazz Guitar #2

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A good-level masterclass
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This fascinating look at the art of improvisation in the Gypsy jazz tradition shows you how to really swing! Paul Mehling, leader of the Hot Club of San Francisco, has a comprehensive knowledge of all aspects of this powerful and infectious style, and he provides a wealth of information and playing tips to get you off to a solid start.

Before long, you'll be playing exciting solos in the style typified by Django Reinhardt, Birelli Lagrenne and other hot players of this dynamic genre. You'll learn the theory and playing techniques behind the music, including the exercises, scales, modes and arpeggiated picking ("the heart of the Reinhardt style") that will allow you to come up with your own improvisations. He includes advice on fingering, use of the metronome, singing your solos and how to "focus your attention so your hands can play what your ears hear."

Paul teaches the special elements that give this music its distinctive ring: "sweep" picking, ornaments (glissandos, trills, bends, tremolo, vibrato, etc.), diminished and augmented runs, triplets and the other special sounds that "put the Gypsy in Gypsy swing." Includes some hot jamming with Paul and Tony Mandraccia, rhythm guitar.

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A good-level masterclass.......2005-04-12

Part 2 of 2 of Paul Mehling's instructional exploration of Gypsy Jazz guitar techniques, this 1-hour DVD plays like a high-level masterclass. Of all the possible ways in which this rather broad topic could be explored, Mehling chose the most musical - and the most disappointing for those who just want to "pick up a few licks."

He gives the tools to acquire and practice the musical and technical ideas for this complex style. This he does by breaking down Django's style into its main musical building blocks: picking patterns, arpeggios, scales, embellishments, left-hand techniques. For each of these elements, Mehling shows the correct way in which to "think them out," study them, practice them and grow them into musical improvisation.

Furthermore, he gives insightful advice on preferred voicings, on whether or not to "think modally," and on good ways to become agile and intimately acquainted with the fretboard. As he does in part 1 on comping, he teaches to fish rather than handing the viewer the catch of the day.

I would have taken off a half-star for editing - some of the demonstrations could have used another take, but again, this has the extemporaneous freshness of an masterclass caught on DVD. Also, I have meditated on whether Mehling should have expanded on the Gypsy "rest stroke" of the right hand - but I think that doing so in the context of a one-hour lesson would have been less than practical.

For the casual guitarist who just wants to strum a few ready-made lines, this is definitely not the right buy. But for anyone seriously willing to understand some of the foundations of Django's style - and willing to dedicate it some serious hours of "active" learning - this is a great resource.

A Great Follow-Up.......2005-02-25

This dvd delves deeply into the art of improvisational soloing in the Manouche (Gypsy) jazz form. You'll learn so many of Django's tricks of the trade. Loads of scales and modes, ornaments (glissandos, vibrato, etc.) I highly recommend this and the 1st installment in the series for ALL guitarists, jazz players or not.

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Django and D-Junko Strikes Again
awesome double feature!
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Starring: Franco Nero , Donald Pleasence , Christopher Connelly , Licinia Lentini , and William Berger
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Django Along with Sergio Leone's Clint Eastwood trilogy, Sergio Corbucci's Django, starring Belgian hunk Franco Nero as the gritty mercenary who drags a coffin behind him, was one of the most influential spaghetti Westerns. After mowing down armies of bad guys with his machine gun (which he brandishes in classic two-fisted tough-guy fashion--from the hip), he stages a daring gold heist from a Mexican military fortress and then plots to double-cross his bandito partners. Corbucci, who cowrote the story, fashions an unrelentingly violent tale of rival gangs squeezing the life out of a muddy, bloody border town, reveling in the sadism of the genre. The film opens with a woman strung up and lashed by a group of lascivious bandits, only to be saved by even more sadistic gunmen who plan to burn her alive, and Django fan Quentin Tarantino borrowed the scene where a vindictive general slices the ear off a corrupt preacher for Reservoir Dogs. While not as stylish as Leone's operatic epics, Django pushed the borders of violence into all-new territory, and the film was banned outright in England and cut in the U.S. It spawned 20 unofficial sequels before Nero returned 20 years later for the only legitimate sequel, Django Strikes Again. In the meantime, Nero followed up this grimy antihero role with a turn as the singing medieval superknight Lancelot in Camelot! Also features a short interview with Nero.

Django Strikes Again Franco Nero returns in the only official sequel to Sergio Corbucci's trendsetting Django. Twenty years later the repentant gunman has buried his past and entered a monastery, but he is rallied into action when his daughter is kidnapped by slave-driving Prussian autocrat Christopher Connelly. Captured and set to work in Connelly's silver mine, Django escapes with the help of a prisoner (a warm performance by Donald Pleasance), digs up his trusty machine gun, and returns wielding death, appropriately from the seat of a hearse. Django Strikes Again was shot in the jungles of Columbia, and the landscape only vaguely resembles the American Gulf Coast, but the lush river settings create a magnificent backdrop for the film's set piece, which features a black, armored steamship that cruises local towns for mine slaves and young girls to be sold to the bordellos. Director Ted Archer maintains the strong brutal streak that runs through the history of Italian westerns. Kids are tortured and monasteries and convents raided by Connelly's men, while Django beheads a pair of raiders with a swipe of a scythe. The carefully plotted (if at times preposterous) story and the transformation of Django from heartless mercenary lifts this from the mire of spaghetti Western sadism to create a genuinely involving film that is, at its best, better than its inspiration. Also features a short interview with Nero. --Sean Axmaker

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Django and D-Junko Strikes Again.......2005-11-29

Other then "The Great Silence" - Most Corbucci films are inept, sloppy, and cartoonish. Speed Racer can be less cartoonsish. (just check out Navajo Joe or Campaneros).

Django is not the worst but it is also no exception. The one clever idea in this film is that a laconic anti-hero drags around a coffin with a machine gun inside. That's it - end of story.

The movie is filled with continuity errors and ridiculous scenarios. The action scenes don't make sense. The hammy bad-guy style acting is way over the top. The editing is uninspired. The music is uninspired and cliched. The violence and action are unrealistic and stupid. A guy being forced to eat his own ear by a world-class-over-acting bad guy in a 20-second scene does not a great move make. (Incidentally the poor guy appears to be eating a fig.)

Franco Nero's understated anti hero style acting is ruined be a dubbed voice that sounds like Casper Milquetoast. Worst of all - there is no film-making-style, especially for a spaghetti western. Anchor Bay's version looks and sounds only OK but I doubt the film ever looked or sounded very good. Quality spaghetti westerns can be very engaging but its hard to understand why this one was so popular Maybe it comes off better dubbed into German - for some reason it was very popular in Germany.

The second DVD - "Django Strikes Again" is worse on every level, although it makes a cliched attempt to be stylish. The plot and acting are inane, and the action scenes are preposterous. - (Django escapes by rolling down a hill in a barrel). The people and locations give no feeling for the American West or even Mexico. The film would be insulting if it were not so unimportant and forgettable. (a black woman in a retro-chain-outfit pours water over herself as a means to torture enslaved Mexicans on a jet-black river boat. - Where the hell is this supposed to take place?!

Poor Donald Pleasance cannot help this atrocity. Instead seeing him in the film is merely sad. I would have given "Django" 2 stars if "Strikes Again" were not attached to this package. Expect "Strikes Again" to be on Mystery Science theater 3000 someday.

The original "Django" may have been the proto-type for the Spaghetti Western anti-hero and the many dark, violent stylish spaghetti westerns that were to follow. In that regard maybe it deserves some recognition and a place in history. That said I can only recommend this package to hard-core spaghetti western fans who are very very forgiving. Even then you will not want to demonstrate your home theater or initiate people to spaghetti westerns with either of these films.

awesome double feature!.......2005-11-23

This is a fantastic DVD set with two very entertaining Django movies starring Franco Nero. Both flicks are fun stuff and this is a terrific DVD package with some cool extra features. IT'S GREAT! THANKS ANCHOR BAY!

Django Strikes Again.......2003-07-28

Not sure about director 'Ted Archer' but one thing is certain: 'Ted Archer' is not Guiseppe Colizzi or Sergio Carbucci! -- however 'Ted' is still a gifted director all the same. Likewise not sure if 'Django Strikes Again' truly qualifies as a spaghetti western or just as an offbeat Italian film? Whatever the case diehard Italian film/spaghetti western lovers will love this movie but everyone else will probably loathe it as we can see from the one-star reviews already submitted. For those of us who love the imagination and intention of these Italian films the movie does not disappoint, especially with the characteristically eccentric performance of Donald Pleasance, as well as a very mature and thoughtful rendition from Franco Nero. The transfer to DVD is excellent in region zero - a nice surprise as well! Italian film/spaghetti western movie lovers will rate this film as four stars, while all others will probably give only one star. In the end though as a creative work it is a great effort based upon a lofty ideal which the film does not quite reach however four out of five stars for trying!

Once Upon a Time in a Graveyard..........2002-09-23

This film is the perfect counterpoint to Leone's "Once Upon a Time in the West," which rewards the patient viewer with a slowly unfolding mythic tale that ends up transcending both the American and Spaghetti western genres. Corbucci, as always, is an impatient director, beginning his film not with an interminable wait for a train, but with a simple image of a gunfighter hauling a coffin and saddle (most people forget that little detail) behind him through a muddy wasteland. Enzo Barboni's exquisite camerawork and Luis Bacalov's witty score punctuates this frenetic, modest film. If it weren't for the literally dozens of interchangeable villains (Corbucci has Major Jackson's cretins wear red scarves seemingly so Django and the audience can tell bystanders from bad guys), this probably wouldn't have been such an influential film in Europe. But the extremity of the violence, combined with the comic-book style stunt-work and photography (John Woo points to Peckinpah as a major influence, but one has to wonder how many times he watched Corbucci, too!), is probably what made it such a phenomenon. There's art to this movie--but an art diametrically opposed to Leone's works. For whereas Leone is all suspense--a series of build-ups and crescendi, almost classical in their orientation, concluding with a final, overwhelmingly tense battle--Corbucci seems always in a hurry to get on to the *next* battle. Men fall like ten-pins; bullets fly thick as a swarm of bees; and it's all over usually before any level of suspense ever begins to build. Only the concluding scene, with the mysterious Django struggling to use his beloved's (?) cemetery cross as a desperate replacement for his mangled hands, gestures to anything more than the sum of the film's parts. Great fun for those who don't mind a "Wild Bunch"-like bodycount to go with a whole lot of style but not a whole lot of substance.

THE MAN WITH A NAME : DJANGO.......2002-06-15

I won't argue here, the four westerns directed by Sergio Leone in the sixties fly high above the hundreds of spaghetti westerns shot in Spain, Greece, Portugal, Italy or Iceland during the same blessed period. However, this not a reason to overlook the cinematographic works of the outsiders of the italian master. Take Sergio Corbucci's DJANGO for instance. True that Franco Nero doesn't have Clint Eastwood's presence, true that DJANGO's supporting characters can't be compared with Gian-Maria Volontè or Klaus Kinski's hysterical apparitions.

So what, why leave this movie in the overpopulated Purgatory of forgotten movies. I was excited by the duels presented in Django, not by the machine-gun duels too predictible, but rather by the duel in Nathaniel's saloon or the final duel in a cemetery between a Franco Nero dealing with a crushed hand and the bad guys wearing red clothes so that you (and Django) can't miss them when the gunfight starts.

DJANGO STRIKES BACK, set in Mexico but shot in beautiful Colombia 20 years later, is not so exciting but you absolutely have to watch once the prologue of the movie, presented in italian with subtitles. Two pistoleros, well over the 60 years old mark, desperately try, after an hilarious gunfight, to remember the name of this legend of the West, the Man with the machine-gun. The irony of this scene is an excellent homage to Sergio Leone.

Two mini-interviews with Franco Nero, an interactive game for your kids, production notes and trailers complete this limited Anchor Bay edition.

Customer Reviews:

Superb instruction........2007-03-20

I own a lot of instructional Video's and I must say that this is definitely one of the best I've seen. Very easy to follow and Fun. I think it's useful for all levels.

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