Django (DVD)

Directed by the expert Spaghetti Western director Sergio Corbucci in 1966, DJANGO has long been upheld as one of the classics of the genre. Starring Franco Nero as the title character, the film tells the story of a lone gunslinger who walks into a small town dragging a coffin, who gets involved in a struggle between two groups warring for control of the town. This is a very violent western for the time it was made, although the levels of violence are nothing compared to movies such as the recent remake of THE HILLS HAVE EYES or the most recent RAMBO movie. Nero is perfectly cast as Django, with his good looks and sneer casting some memorable images on the ...  Read the complete review

Like for many Italian filmmakers, Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo proved to be considerably influential, and its simple yet brutal storyline was something that was particularly popular to deal with in the newly coming western genre. The most famous example of these, of course, was Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars, which was essentially a carbon copy of that Japanese film, but beyond that most well-known film there was another one that essentially featured the same base story and which, just like Fistful before it, quickly became one of the most popular and enduring icons of the entire Italian western genre: Django. Written by the Corbucci brothers Sergio and Bruno, with the ...  Read the complete review