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Preparati la Bara!
Django, Prepare a Coffin
Viva Django / Django - Sein Haß ist tödlich / Joe, der Galgenvogel / Nobody Returns ... and Now Prepare Your Grave! / Django Sees Red / Get the Coffin Ready / Django und die Bande der Gehenkten
Italy 1968
produced by Manolo Bolognini for B.R.C. Produzione
directed by Ferdinando Baldi
starring Terence Hill, Horst Frank, George Eastman, José Torres, Pinuccio Ardia, Guido Lollobrigida (as Lee Burton), Barbara Simon, Spartaco Conversi, Luciano Rossi (as Edward G. Ross), Gianni Brezza, Giovanni Ivan Scratuglia, Andrea Scotti, Roberto Simmi, Franco Balducci, Adriana Giuffrè, Lucio De Santis, Angela Minervini, Giovanni Di Benedetto
story by Franco Rossetti, screenplay by Ferdinando Baldi, Franco Rossetti, music by Gianfranco Reverberi, cinematography by Enzo Barboni
review by Mike Haberfelner
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5 years ago, Django (Terence Hill) was the bodyguard of politician
David (Horst Frank) - but he gave it all up to live on a farm out west
with his wife and kid, and to afford that, he agrees to ship some gold
across the country with his treck - but then his treck is attacked by a
gang of outlaws, and his family is killed and he's gravely injured. 5
years later, Django works as a hangman, first and foremost responsible for
the execution of those who have been found guilty of raiding gold
shipments. These culprits all have one thing in common though, they seem
to have been set up, and no matter how many are killed, this won't stop
the raids. Django smells something fishy, which is why he only fakes the
hangings to in the night cut down his very much alive "victims"
and bring them to a safe haven. His plan is to run a gang of his own to
hunt down the gold raiders to clear all the "hanged men"'s names
and have his revenge at the same time. He already knows who's the culprit,
a certain Lucas (George Eastman), and is sure to confront his men with
those they think hanged in their steads will smoke him out. But then
Django goes on a mission to save one of his men, Garcia's (José Torres),
wife (Barbara Simon), and exactly this man turns on him in his absence,
persuades the others to raid the next gold transport on their own then
make off over the border - and once that's succeeded, he kills his entire
gang. Meanwhile, Django's not much luckier on his mission: Sure, he saves
the woman, but then walks into a trap set up by Lucas - and once in Lucas'
power he learns that the man behind the raids is actually his old friend,
politician David. And the only reason he hasn't been killed yet is because
Garcia and company have raided the gold transport before Lucas and his men
could, and now they want the gold. Sure, Django is freed by Garcia's wife,
but it seems if he still wants revenge, he has the whole world against
him, and if he runs, at least half the world will come after him ... Now
despite Terence Hill actually bearing the name Django in this movie's
original Italian language version, and despite a machinegun in a coffin in
the finale, this is not an actual sequel to Sergio Corbucci's Django,
and it certainly doesn't live up to that movie in terms of quality and
originality - but taken by its own terms, Django, Prepare a Coffin
is a pretty decent spaghetti western of the vendetta variety that might
not tell the most original story per se but manages to throw some really
nice and inventive twists and details into the mix that keep the audience
on the edge of their seats rather than having them lean back with a
"seen it better elsewhere"-feeling. And of course, a solid cast,
a very cool score and impressive camerawork really help turning this one
into a pretty awesome genre entry.
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