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TITLE Django (1966)

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DISABILITY Disfigurement Scar

COUNTRY Italy/Spain

LENGTH 92

GENRE Western

DIRECTOR Sergio Corbucci

CAST Franco Nero

Loredano Nusciak

Jimmy Douglas

NOTES One of the baddies has a large scar down left side of face.

This is the kind of film which grabs you by the throat and cuts

off the circulation. If it also manages to strangle your critical

faculties you live a sort of half-death through the film. The

director anticipates you might be in some form of torpor so he throws at you extreme images which would bowl over a normal person. Now if you accept that the hero is capable of dragging a coffin behind him over rough ground then I suggest you go out and try it. Even if the coffin had wheels it's not on.

I suggest knocking on the lid and asking for help. But

surprise, surprise inside is a gatling gun which clearly uses

smart-guided bullets. Everyone a killer. Another obstacle is

dubbing. Perhaps fortunately the hero is a photo-copy of

Eastwood's the man with no name, no voice box to speak of.

The film becomes more and more amusing as in the middle

of the town's main street is a huge, huge, log which affords

the hero cover as he mows down most of the enemy as they

conveniently come from one direction. But then a gang of

Mexicans capture him without a shot being fired. And we are

so relieved when the Mexican chief turns out to be an old

friend. This was a popular film for those hooked on spaghetti

westerns but it's as welcome in a cinema as a bag of

wrapped sweets.

 


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