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Django il Bastardo
Django und die Bande der Bluthunde
Italy 1969
directed by Sergio Garrone
starring Anthony Steffen, Lu Kanante (= Luciano Rossi), Paolo Gozlino, Rada Rassimov
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Django (Anthony Steffen) is looking for the officers who in the Civil
War betrayed his detail, having them all killed by the enemy, to avenge
his dead comrades. To always properly announce who he is going to kill
next, he each time brings a graveyard crucifix with him, bearing the
name of his intended victim - & he never fails to deliver the corpse
by the end of the day. It is not until he wants to exact his vengeance
on Murdok (Lu Kanante) that he meets any opposition to speak of, but
Murdok is prepared for Django's arrival & has hired, besides having
many a bodyguard, various gangs of desperadoes to hunt down Django,
& he even evacuates Dirty City - the town on which he has a
stranglehold - to get a clearer shot at him. Django still manages to get
into town with the greatest of ease, using the confusion among the
desperadoes & bodyguards to his advantage (one great scene has the
leader of the bodyguards telling his men to take up the hunt for Django
in a saloon, not realizing he is sitting at a table among them). Only
Murdok's half insane brother & his wife (Paolo Gozlino, Rada
Rassimov) do actually succeed in getting close to Django when they try
to bribe him & Gozlino even wounding & disarming him, but Django
still manages to stay one step ahead of his adversaries, & soon the
desperadoes want to leave Murdok's employ, leading to a massive
shoot-out between them & Murdok's bodyguards. Django, who has
re-armed himself in the meantime, disposes of the rest of the bodyguards
easily & has his final shoot-out with Murdok - exacting his
vengeance, of course.
Grim vendetta Western from Italy, often playing like a horror-movie
(although not as gothic in style as ... e Dio disse a Caino),
with the central character, the lone gunman resembling more than usual
(even for an Italo-Western) the Angel of Death - this of course
emphasized by the fact that he always carries graveyard-cruzifixes with
him. & Steffen, admittedly not much of an actor, fills this role
quite fine due to his unability to show any emotions at all.
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