Quel maledetto giorno d'inverno... Django e Sartana all'ultimo sangue (1970)

User Rating:

6.5/10   

Director:

Demofilo Fidani

Writers:

Demofilo Fidani (writer)
Mila Vitelli Valenza (writer)

Release Date:

25 June 1970 (Italy)

Genre:

Western

Plot Keywords:

Spaghetti Western | Punctuation In Title | Sartana | Django | Ellipsis In Title

Cast

Jack Betts	...	Django (as Hunt Powers)
Fabio Testi	...	Sartana / Jack Ronson
Dino Strano	...	Bud Willer (as Dean Stratford)
Benito Pacifico	...	Paco Sanchez (as Dennis Colt)
Luciano Conti	...	Joe 'The Worm' Smith (as Lucky McMurray)
Simonetta Vitelli	...	Peter's Widow (as Simone Blondell)
Attilio Dottesio	...	McLaren (as Dan Reesy)
Celso Faria	...	Frank Cutler
Roberto Danesi	...	Mordera (as Robert Dannish)
Antonio Basile	...	1st Bud's killer
Michele Branca	...	2nd Bud's killer (as Michael Brank)
Franco Pasquetto	...	Peter
Pietro Torrisi	...	Paco, the giant
Nuria Torray
Calogero Caruana	...	Deputy Sheriff

Also Known As:

Django e Sartana
One Damned Day at Dawn... Django Meets Sartana!

Runtime:

90 min | Sweden:86 min

Country:

Italy

Language:

Italian

Color:

Color

Certification:

Norway:16

Company:

Tarquinia Cinematografica

One damned day in the afternoon ... I watched this movie

As with most of the follow-ups to DJANGO this bears all the signs of having been tampered with in post-production in order to accommodate the most tenuous of links to that successful series. In this case, however, the makers have decided to double their money, or hedge their bets, depending on which way you look at it, by attempting to cash in on not one but two series. Not having seen any Sartana movies I cannot comment on how well this has been accomplished but in the case of Django I have to say it bears little resemblance to Fulci's DJANGO THE RUNNER let alone Corbucci's original. I spent most of the film under the impression that the man in black would turn out to be Sartana but in fact he was Django and the most spurious of reasons was given for making Sheriff Ronson that Sartana character.

That aside what was the film like in itself? Well there was almost nothing about it to mark it in any way unusual. All the customary genre cliches were in place, with a few added touches to put it down as a shoddy spaghetti western: leering close ups, sweaty villains, sporadic violence, rudimentary characterisation, and so on. Unfortunately there was none of the sub-genre's visual flair to take your mind off the banality of the plot.