Django (1966)

A coffin-dragging gunslinger enters a town caught between two feuding factions, the KKK and a gang of Mexican Bandits. That man is Django, and he is caught up in a struggle against both parties.

Director:

Sergio Corbucci

Writers:

Sergio Corbucci (story), Bruno Corbucci (story),

Stars:

Franco Nero, José Bódalo, Loredana Nusciak

Cast

Complete credited cast:
Franco Nero	...	Django
José Bódalo	...	Gen. Hugo Rodriguez
Loredana Nusciak	...	Maria
Ángel Álvarez	...	Nathaniel the Bartender
Gino Pernice	...	Brother Jonathan (as Jimmy Douglas)
Simón Arriaga	...	Miguel
Giovanni Ivan Scratuglia	...	Klan Member (as Ivan Scratuglia)
Remo De Angelis	...	Mexican Officer (as Erik Schippers)
Rafael Albaicín	...	Member of Hugo's Gang (as Raphael Albaicin)
José Canalejas	...	Member of Hugo's Gang (as José Canalecas)
Eduardo Fajardo	...	Maj. Jackson

Storyline

In the opening scene a lone man walks, behind him he drags a coffin. That man is Django. He rescues a woman from bandits and, later, arrives in a town ravaged by the same bandits. The scene for confrontation is set. But why does he drag that coffin everywhere and who, or what, is in it?

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Plot Keywords:

bandit | coffin | gold | cowboy | machine gun | 

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Taglines:

The movie that spawned a genre.

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Genres:

Western

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Certificate:

Unrated

Details

Country:

Italy Spain

Language:

Italian

Release Date:

December 1966 (USA)

Also Known As:

Jango

Filming Locations:

Elios Film, Rome, Lazio, Italy

Box Office

Opening Weekend:

$6,150 (USA) (21 December 2012)

Gross:

$25,097 (USA) (1 February 2013)

Company Credits

Production Co:

B.R.C. Produzione S.r.l., Tecisa

Technical Specs

Runtime:

92 min 87 min (censored) 88 min (censored)

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Film debut of Luciano Rossi.

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Goofs

Whenever the belt-fed machine gun fires, the belt doesn't move at all.

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Quotes

Nataniele: I sure never thought I'd end up grave-digging and not even getting paid for it, either. Anyhow, it's better to be above ground doing that than below ground doing nothing.

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Connections

Featured in My Dear Killer (1972)

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Soundtracks

"Django"
(theme)
Lyrics by Franco Migliacci
Composed by Luis Bacalov as Migliacci-Enríquez
Performed by Rocky Roberts
Published by General Music [it]

User Reviews

Mystical central figure

At least in Europe, this other spaghetti western variation of Kurosawa's Yojimbo was probably even more influential than the film that created the genre, A Fistful of Dollars, with countless imitations, rip-offs, sequels, remakes. The title hero is again very different from traditional Western heroes, but this time he is a much more mystical (almost religious) figure than even the man with no name, and the places he goes to are even dirtier and more desperate and downtrodden than any place we would find in a Leone Western.

The impressive opening sequence shows Django dragging a coffin behind him through a muddy and featureless landscape, accompanied by Bacalov's title song (not Morricone, for a change), heading for his first battle. The coffin, his dark coat, and the mystique around him make him appear like an angel of death, invoking associations with the Red Death character in Roger Corman's Masque of the Red Death. Django is not quite as untouchable and supernatural, but the body count in his trace is comparable.