The Pale Door was one of my favourite films from last year, so that set my menial mind in motion with a mission: watch more Horror Westerns, dagnabbit. A lesser known sub-genre to be sure (especially since Westerns are part of even more vicious cycles of popularity/decline than Horror), but one I’m eager to explore. With that in mind, let’s head over to Italy for Django the Bastard (1969), one of writer/director Sergio Garrone’s (The Hand That Feeds Death) unofficial sequels to the Django series made popular a few years earlier starring Franco Nero. And while this isn’t a full-on merger of the two, this duster sprinkles just enough menace around to offer further proof the two can exist together.
Although Django the Bastard was released in Italy in November, it didn’t hit North America until the spring of 1974, where it could hang third...
Although Django the Bastard was released in Italy in November, it didn’t hit North America until the spring of 1974, where it could hang third...
- 3/13/2021
- by Scott Drebit
- DailyDead
Review by Roger Carpenter
The spaghetti western subgenre is littered with series-headlining characters like Sabata, Sartana, and Ringo. But for sheer popularity as well as film volume, no one beats Django.
Director Sergio Corbucci introduced Django to an international audience in 1966. Starring Franco Nero as the titular character, the film was so immensely popular across the globe that it spawned at least 60 unofficial sequels with titles like Django the Bastard, Viva! Django, Django Kill…If You Live Shoot!, Django Kills Softly, and literally dozens of others. There was even a comedy western entitled Nude Django. The name continues to live on with Takashi Miike’s Sukiyaki Western Django (2007) and Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained (2012), which not only sports the original “Django” theme song but also a small part for Django himself, Franco Nero, as a bettor during a Mandingo fight.
The Italians are famous for jumping onto any cinematic bandwagon,...
The spaghetti western subgenre is littered with series-headlining characters like Sabata, Sartana, and Ringo. But for sheer popularity as well as film volume, no one beats Django.
Director Sergio Corbucci introduced Django to an international audience in 1966. Starring Franco Nero as the titular character, the film was so immensely popular across the globe that it spawned at least 60 unofficial sequels with titles like Django the Bastard, Viva! Django, Django Kill…If You Live Shoot!, Django Kills Softly, and literally dozens of others. There was even a comedy western entitled Nude Django. The name continues to live on with Takashi Miike’s Sukiyaki Western Django (2007) and Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained (2012), which not only sports the original “Django” theme song but also a small part for Django himself, Franco Nero, as a bettor during a Mandingo fight.
The Italians are famous for jumping onto any cinematic bandwagon,...
- 7/9/2017
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
To mark the release of Five Dolls for an August Moon on 1st February, we’ve been given 3 copies to give away on Blu-ray. Wealthy industrialist George Stark (Teodora Corrà, Django the Bastard) has gathered a group of friends – played by a who’s who of Italian genre cinema including William Berger (Faccia a faccia),
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- 1/27/2016
- by Competitions
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Franco Nero has been around. Since his star turn in the iconic Spaghetti Western Django, the Parma born movie star has appeared in more than 150 films, spanning all four corners of the globe. He’s been in musicals like Camelot (with his future wife Vanessa Redgrave), pumped up 80s action films like Die Hard 2, cop thrillers (The Marseille Connection), comedies (Cippola Colt) and even Bruce Lee inspired martial arts movies like Enter the Ninja.
“I did everything,” he explains,
“I think I’m the only actor who’s worked with the cinematography of all nations. I’ve done movies with a Brazilian director, an Australian director, films in Russia, Spain, Germany, Sweden, from all over the world. So I’ve had a lot of fun. Why not?”
Nero is in town to attend this year’s Cine Excess Film Festival, a three day conference on global cult cinema where...
“I did everything,” he explains,
“I think I’m the only actor who’s worked with the cinematography of all nations. I’ve done movies with a Brazilian director, an Australian director, films in Russia, Spain, Germany, Sweden, from all over the world. So I’ve had a lot of fun. Why not?”
Nero is in town to attend this year’s Cine Excess Film Festival, a three day conference on global cult cinema where...
- 6/2/2011
- by Tom Fallows
- Obsessed with Film
Anthony Steffen in The Strangers Gundown / Django the Avenger (lower photo), which long predated Clint Eastwood’s High Plains Drifter Anthony Steffen Q&A with Daniel Camargo Part I How did Anthony Steffen get into the Spaghetti Western genre? What’s his place in it? Did he star in any major films within that genre? "Spaghetti Western" was a sort of pejorative term used to categorize the Westerns made in Italy. However, it later became an endearing way of classifying these films, usually made in co-production with Spain. To sell the movies as American productions, actors and technicians were told to use English pseudonyms. (This trick had been in use since the ’50s — for other genres as well; that’s why it’s so common [...]...
- 4/15/2010
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
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