Preparati la bara! (1968)

Director:

Ferdinando Baldi

Writers:

Ferdinando Baldi (writer)
Franco Rossetti (writer)

Release Date:

5 July 1968 (West Germany)

Genre:

Western | Action

Plot:

A mysterious gunfighter named Django is employed by a local crooked political boss as a hangman to execute innocent locals framed by the boss...

Plot Keywords:

Revenge | Gold | Native | Cemetery | Cowboy

Cast

Terence Hill	...	Django
Horst Frank	...	David Barry
George Eastman	...	Lucas
José Torres	...	Garcia
Pinuccio Ardia	...	Orazio
Guido Lollobrigida	...	Jonathan (as Lee Burton)
Andrea Scotti
Barbara Simon	...	Mercedes
Spartaco Conversi
Luciano Rossi		(as Edward G. Ross)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Franco Balducci
Gianni Brezza
Lucio De Santis
Giovanni Di Benedetto		(as Gianni De Benedetto)
Adriana Giuffrè
Angela Minervini
Giovanni Ivan Scratuglia	...	Pat O'Connor (as Ivan Scratuglia)
Roberto Simmi
Valerio Tordi

Also Known As:

Django Sees Red (Canada: English title)
Django, Prepare a Coffin (USA)
Get the Coffin Ready
Viva Django

Runtime:

Sweden:88 min (DVD)

Country:

Italy

Language:

Italian

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

West Germany:18 (nf) | Brazil:16 | Iceland:16 | Germany:16 (DVD) | Norway:(Banned) (1968) | France:-12 (10, TV rating) | France:U (original rating) | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15

Company:

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

Trivia:

German Import DVD has a Super-8 Version (German language only), as a special feature on the disc.

Movie Connections:

Spin off from Django (1966)

Soundtrack:

You'd Better Smile

An archetype for the genre

Django (Terence Hill) travels from town to town as a hangman, but secretly saves the lives of the condemned and recruits them for a special task: revenge on David and Lucas who are responsible for an attack on a gold transport years ago in which Django's wife was killed. The problems begin when one member of Django's gang starts making plans for his own benefit... All the essential ingredients of spaghetti westerns are here, including digging on the graveyard and a shootout with a machine-gun taken from a coffin. This is almost an archetype for the genre, it surely became a favorite of the spaghetti western fans over the years, and Terence Hill was never a more serious anti-hero than here, even though more and more irony is sneaking in, but that is a development similar to "For A Few Dollars More" compared to its predecessor "A Fistful of Dollars".