Django sfida Sartana (1970)

User Rating:

6.9/10   

Director:

Pasquale Squitieri

Writer:

Pasquale Squitieri (writer)

Release Date:

22 February 1971 (Denmark)

Genre:

Western

Plot:

Framed for a bank robbery, bounty killer Django's brother, Steve is lynched. Django hunts down Sartana...

Plot Keywords:

Django | Sartana | Spaghetti Western | Crossover | Character Name In Title

Cast

Tony Kendall	...	Django
George Ardisson	...	Sartana
José Torres	...	Mute
Bernard Farber	...	Singer (as Bernard Faber)
Adler Gray	...	Singer's niece
Federico Boido	...	1st gunman (as Rick Boyd)
Salvatore Billa	...	Singer's man
Fulvio Mingozzi	...	Sheriff
Augusto Pescarini		(as Augosto Pesarini)
Mirella Pamphili
Claudio Trionfi
Teodoro Corrà	...	Crow
John Alvar	...	Steve

Also Known As:

Django Against Sartana
Django Challenges Sartana
Django Defies Sartana (USA)

Country:

Italy

Language:

Italian

Color:

Color

Company:

P.A.C.

Goofs:

Continuity: When Loco (Django's Mexican friend) throws his machete at the two baddies outside, which instead misses and sticks in the fence, the sun's shadow on the blade is at four o'clock. When Django shoots the two baddies immediately after this, the sun's shadow on the blade is suddenly at two o'clock.

Second tier Spaghetti Western

The title of this movie is somewhat misleading, for while the eponymous duo do briefly clash ,for they most part they work together against their mutual enemies ,the bad guys.

Django (Tony Kendall) has a brother ,Steve ,who is employed by a frontier bank and has a reputation as a womaniser.He is set up on a false charge of bank robbery ,caught while entertaining a lady of the night and summarily hung without trial despite the best endeavours of the local Sheriff to save him from the lynch mob.His alleged partner in the crime was Sartana-who is equally guiltless of the deed .Django descends on the town but turns away without wreaking vengeance and sets out after Sartana .After a brief but intense fist fight they are made aware of the truth .The criminal was the banker himself(Jose Torres) ,and to compound his villainy he took his own niece captive as a hostage should the need arise .Django and Sartana combine forces to exact revenge and rescue the girl There are some touches of the well nigh obligatory sadism associated with the Spaghetti Western but for the most part this a traditional Western well enough executed without being outstanding .