Review of Django (1966) by Deb S — 20 Mar 2010

The storyline is almost similar to Sergio Leone's FISTFULL OF DOLLARS and opens with a guy (Django played by Franco Nero) dragging a heavy wooden coffin across the desert where he witnesses a woman been beaten with a whip across the back by some Mexicans soldiers. He watches passively from a hillside until a new gang arrives, guns down the Mexicans, but instead of rescuing the woman, they want to burn her at the stake. Only then does Django intervene! Sergio Corbucci's depiction of the Old West is a very violent and dirty place with streets full of mud and inhabited mainly by crooks, hookers and thugs. The movie is filled with numerous twists that keep the viewer from guessing which side Django is actually batting for and my favorite scene would be the one where Django finally opens that ever present coffin.

It's unrealistic, very bloody and way over-the-top in some parts and in my opinion not as good as Clint Eastwood's Fistful of Dollars but nevertheless very entertaining in its own way where the villains drop like flies. I did enjoy the opening and closing title theme song by Luis E. Bacalov, it's catchy and I just can't seem to stop humming it now lol.