- Actors: Franco Nero, Donald Pleasence, Christopher Connelly, Licinia Lentini, William Berger
- Directors: Nello Rossati, Sergio Corbucci
- Writers: Nello Rossati, Bruno Corbucci, Franco Reggiani, Franco Rossetti, José Gutiérrez Maesso
- Format: NTSC
- Language: English
- Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
- Number of discs: 2
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- Studio: Hgv Video Production
- Release Date: Jun 22 2004
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B00002RASV
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #41,953 in DVD (See Top 100 in DVD)
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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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4.0 out of 5 stars
Django Strikes Again,
By Montoya "ponitora" (El Dorado Hills, CA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Django/Django Strikes Again (Widescreen) [2 Discs] (DVD)
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!
3.0 out of 5 stars
Once Upon a Time in a Graveyard...,
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This review is from: Django/Django Strikes Again (Widescreen) [2 Discs] (DVD)
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.
4.0 out of 5 stars
THE MAN WITH A NAME : DJANGO,
By Daniel S. "Daniel" (Geneva, Switzerland) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Django/Django Strikes Again (Widescreen) [2 Discs] (DVD)
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. A DVD zone outsiders.
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