Despite its trashy moments and the sometimes substandard direction, i quite liked the atmosphere of the ‘‘damned’’ Black City and Hunt Powers who played the badass Django was pretty good imo. It’s surely b-class stuff, however the spaghetti feel is present in every second and that’s certainly a plus for me.
don’t remember it extremely well, since i have only watched it once and that was a while ago… but i do remember thinking it was pretty decent. If i’m remembering this one correctly, my main problem was the ending gunfight- which was pretty tedious and boring
I’d only heard the worst about Fidani and was expecting something truly dreadful. Like sub-Invasion of the Blood Farmers awful. But the atmosphere was evocative and everyone seemed competent enough.
Not exceptional by any stretch of the imagination, but you can do much worse. Yeah, 3 out of 5 stars is probably fair.
Nowhere near as silly (or as intermittently dull) as other Fidani films, but still pretty odd and disjointed. Which, I guess, is part of its appeal.
Testi is wasted (don’t expect him to be a ‘proper’ Sartana) but there’s enough incident to keep the attention and Fidani’s direction is relatively solid.
A very un-Sartana like young man (Testi) arrives in town to fill the vacant sheriff’s position. Django (Powers) arrives, with a definite agenda. After the new sheriff is challenged to a duel at dawn by the town baddie, Django offers his help, is refused and takes matters into his own hands. In a Liberty Valance type twist, the town believes the sheriff to be the hero, but the hero will have none of it and decides a lawman’s life is not for him. But…
With plotholes aplenty, unclear motivations, characters popping in and disappearing, changing climate conditions (dusty to muddy and back, winter to sweaty, wind and fog?) hourly, lots of fightfights (serious, not comic), decent music, this is a ‘classic’ Fidani. I had a blast. A much better time than a slapstick ‘comedy’.
Just finished this one. Thought this was a good one, although it does get a lot of hatred. It was not that bad and was pretty enjoyable. I liked the scenes with the back story alot.
Phew!!! Found it, but I don’t have this film… I’ll get it when the Wild East disc comes out, which I’ll mainly be buying for Dead Men Don’t Make Shadows.