Django (1966)
6/10
The Newcomer In Town
18 November 2006
While walking through the desert lands dragging a coffin, the lonely Django (Franco Nero) rescues Maria (Loredana Nusciak) from a group of bandits and arrives in a quite ghost town, where only the saloon and the brothel owned by Nataniele (Ángel Álvarez ) are open. Sooner Major Jackson (Eduardo Fajardo), who charges protection fees from the dwellers, rounds his gang up to face Django, but he kills all the bandits but Jackson using a machine gun. Then the mercenary and acquaintance of Django, Gen. Hugo Rodriguez (José Bodaló) arrives in town, and Django proposes a bold plan to steal the gold from Jackson and split between them. When Django is betrayed, he steals the gold from Hugo and is helped by Maria. They are chased by Hugo and his men, while Jackson organizes with the Mexican army to trap Hugo.

The originality of the beginning of "Django" is simply fantastic, with a lonely man dragging a mysterious coffin along desert lands and saving a woman from sadistic criminals. When the mystery is disclosed, it is very funny to see the confrontation of Django against forty-eight "bad guys". The story follows captivating, with the usual pattern of spaghetti-western, but the scene when the accomplice of Hugo hits successively times the hands of Django with a rifle is exaggerated and spoils the rest of the movie. The DVD released in Brazil does not have the original Italian audio, only dubbed in English or Portuguese. My vote is six.

Title (Brazil): "Django"
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