D: Sergio
Garrone; S: S.G, Antonio de Teffè; C: Gino Santini; M: Vasco und Mancuso; with: Antonio
de Teffè (“Anthony Steffen”); Paolo Gozlino, Luciano Rossi (“Lu Kamante”), Rada Rassimov, Teodoro
Corrà
A mysterious
man in black, named Django (Antonio de Teffè), arrives in Dirty City. Under his poncho he has a list with three names on it: three traitors, who have
to die. Before Django bumps them off, he presents them a grave cross with their name and their obit on it. Hey, that’s
service, folx! Wealthy rancher Rod Murdoch (Paolo Gozlino) is number three on Django’s list, but isn’t in the
mood for dying. So he engages a bunch of additional gunslingers to send Django (back?) over the river
of Styx. After Murdoch’s gang has put the inhabitants of Dirty
City off their flats to gain a free field of fire, the game starts by night.
I 1969
The Gunslinger says:
Sergio
Garrone and his Co-Autor „Anthony Steffen“ may have realized, that their Civil-War-Betrayal-Revenge-Plot is not
as original as it should be. For that reason they enriched the film with some horror elements. Django appears like a bodyless
ghost, a man out of the realm of dead: appearing and vanishing surprisingly, apparently invulnerable, shadowlike. If one compares
it with the good “And God said to Cain”, a film strongly influenced by horror flics as well, one recognizes, that
the Garrone-film suffers in a lack of talent or/and of financial power. This becomes also painfully evident in the non-convincing
realisation of the flash-backs, explaining Django’s motivation. In addition “Anthony Steffen” delivers one
of his weakest performances in the SW. Quite remarkable is the acting of Luciano Rossi as Murdoch’s retarded and sadistic
brother Jack, who should gain a price in a Klaus-Kinski-Madness-Contest.
Rating:
$$$-
Bodycount:
ca. 65 Gringos and Mexicans
Luv’:
Althea (Rada
Rassimov) gets payed by Rod for her marriage with Jack. Money is the only thing, that’s of any importance to her. Well,
anyhow she is addicted to Django too, but he has finished with all: 0/10
Specials:
Murdoch’s
mobsters play „ball“ with a burning dynamite stick
