Django [Blu-ray]

Overview

The first in a thirty-odd-volume series of spaghetti westerns, Django (Franco Nero) is a stranger who tries to mediate between rival American and Mexican gangs about to take control of a border town.

Product Details

Release Date:	08/03/2021
UPC:	0760137398684
Original Release:	1966
Source:	Arrow Video
Language:	English
Time:	1:32:00

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Franco Nero	Django
Gino Pernice	Actor
Eduardo Fajardo	Jackson
Loredana Nusciak	Maria
Ángel Álvarez	Actor
Remo De Angelis	Actor
Simon Arriaga	Actor,Actor
Luciano Rossi	Actor
José Bódalo	Rodriguez
José Canalejas	Actor
Rafael Albaicín	Actor
Erik Schippers	Actor
Giovanni Ivan Scratuglia	Actor,Actor
Silvana Bacci	Mexican Saloon Girl
Flora Carosello	Black Hair Saloon Girl
Lucio De Santis	Whipping Bandit,Klan Member
Gilberto Galimberti	Klan Member
Alfonso Giganti	Klan Member
Cris Huerta	Mexican Officer
Giulio Maculani	Klan Member
Guillermo Méndez	Klan Member
Yvonne Sanson	Redhead Saloon Girl
Attilio Severini	Klan Member
José Terrón	Ringo - Klan Member with Scar
Rafael Vaquero	Member of Hugo's Gang
Luis Bacalov	Composer
Bruno Nicolai	Composer

Technical Credits

Sergio Corbucci

José Gutiérrez Maesso

Franco Rossetti

Piero Vivarelli

Fernando Di Leo

Sergio Corbucci	Director,Screenwriter,Screenwriter,Producer
José Gutiérrez Maesso	Screenwriter
Franco Rossetti	Screenwriter
Piero Vivarelli	Screenwriter
Manolo Bolognini	Producer
Fernando Di Leo	Screenwriter
Enzo Barboni	Producer

Editorial Reviews

When the Italian movie studios saw Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars (1965) making dollars by the fistful they began rolling out Spaghetti Westerns by the conestoga load. One of the earliest efforts is still one of the genre's best, Sergio Corbucci's Django, a spare, hard-bitten, mean-spirited shot of pure adrenaline that counts Quentin Tarantino as one of its cult members (he stole the ear-cutting torture scene for Reservoir Dogs). Using Dollars as a template, Django tells its story almost with photographic storyboards, with the initial image of the sequence -- often an uncomfortably tight clasp -- sufficing to advance the story. Corbucci sets up a revenge motif for the ages, with the odds against the snarly hero woefully in the villains' favor, but Django thrives on the laughably unbalanced odds, as the results of the first bullet-strewn battle scene will attest. The finale, a graveyard shootout that has Django fanning his gun with pieces of meat showing through his bloody palms, is unthinkably brutal and nearly pornographic in its violence. Franco Nero, who became a star after this leading role, is an uncanny -- and clearly intentional -- double for Clint Eastwood's Man With No Name, complete with perpetual three-day growth, horse blanket poncho, and round-brimmed hat.