Not so much the Man with No Name, but the first of a flood of Spaghetti Westerns where there's a Man with One Name: Django! (Followed by Sartana, Cemetery, Ringo, Trinity, Nowhere, Sabato etc etc).
This films opens with a man in a stained Yankee uniform dragging a coffin through a muddy landscape, before rescuing a beaten women from death by burning by a bunch of fashionable Klu Klux Klan types (who in turn had just massacred a bunch of Mexicans who were whipping this woman). This is Django, and he's a moody type played by Franco Nero but dubbed by a guy who kind of sounds like Clint Eastwood.
Django is all about being mysterious and staring at things, and doesn't take too well to another load of red-hooded racist types who turn up at the local whore house to shoot Django. Their leader, Jackson, is a bit miffed that someone popped a cap into his soldier's arses, so Django invites him next time to bring ALL his soldiers, and he'll fix them up proper, see. And when he's done with them, he'll sort out those Mexican fellas too! But why is Django doing this? What's he keeping in the coffin? Will he hit it off with hooker Maria? Why does the town look like God took a crap on it? This is kind of similar to Fistful of Dollars but you'll get no complaints from me - You may well see the same plots over and over again in these films but the fun is in how these Italian directors add their own stamp to things, similar to the way that Italian artists would draw the Madonna and Child over and over.
I won't say too much about this one as it's shown on the telly all the time and is one of the more obtainable Spaghetti Westerns. Followed by many films with Django in the title, like Django Kill! If you live, shoot! Django The Bastard, Django Prepare a Coffin, Django Vs Sartana, Django's Cut Price Corpses and Django Prepares a Powerpoint presentation on Tourism in Glasgow City Centre.
As John Peel said about the spaghetti western: Always different, always the same.
This films opens with a man in a stained Yankee uniform dragging a coffin through a muddy landscape, before rescuing a beaten women from death by burning by a bunch of fashionable Klu Klux Klan types (who in turn had just massacred a bunch of Mexicans who were whipping this woman). This is Django, and he's a moody type played by Franco Nero but dubbed by a guy who kind of sounds like Clint Eastwood.
Django is all about being mysterious and staring at things, and doesn't take too well to another load of red-hooded racist types who turn up at the local whore house to shoot Django. Their leader, Jackson, is a bit miffed that someone popped a cap into his soldier's arses, so Django invites him next time to bring ALL his soldiers, and he'll fix them up proper, see. And when he's done with them, he'll sort out those Mexican fellas too! But why is Django doing this? What's he keeping in the coffin? Will he hit it off with hooker Maria? Why does the town look like God took a crap on it? This is kind of similar to Fistful of Dollars but you'll get no complaints from me - You may well see the same plots over and over again in these films but the fun is in how these Italian directors add their own stamp to things, similar to the way that Italian artists would draw the Madonna and Child over and over.
I won't say too much about this one as it's shown on the telly all the time and is one of the more obtainable Spaghetti Westerns. Followed by many films with Django in the title, like Django Kill! If you live, shoot! Django The Bastard, Django Prepare a Coffin, Django Vs Sartana, Django's Cut Price Corpses and Django Prepares a Powerpoint presentation on Tourism in Glasgow City Centre.
As John Peel said about the spaghetti western: Always different, always the same.