I just ordered this one, but to my great surprise the film did not have itās own thread.
I hope someone who already owns it will write a little about it.
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DATABASE PAGE: Cjamango - The Spaghetti Western Database
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Its a good movie! Rassimov aka Sean Todd in one of his few leading protagonist SW roles, the other I think was Cowards donāt Pray.
I like this one. Ivan is very good!
But, unfortunately, it does have a cute kidā¦
I canāt remember who on this forum talks a lot about religious meaning/ionography in spaghettis but this moive has a very strange fade out in that regardā¦a morbid version of the holy family.
I just got mine in the mail last week. Iāll be watching it soon.
I finally got my version of this film and I must agree that Ivan Rassimov puts in a good performance, I would have liked to see him play the āgoodā guy in more SWās.
Watched this one for the second time recently, and itās really a good SW I think!
The story is very simple and unoriginal, but the movie is solid and well-made, kept my interest throughout
Top 30 or 40 material to me I think 
Apart from that annoying child, which kind of ruined the whole film for me. I could still hear his annoying dub ringing in my ears long after the film ended ā¦CJAMANGOā¦CJAMANGOā¦CJAMANGOā¦
Then I guess you canāt stand little Jesus in Fistful either, or the crying infant in Few Dollars More, then one that gets shot by Indioās men off-camera :o 
Havenāt seen it yet.
Is it like ā¦ SHANE ā¦ SHA-A-NE ā¦ SHAAA-AAA-AAANE ?
I always reach for the volume control when those parts are on!
I have seen the āannoying childā in a trailer to the film, but have not taken the plunge and viewed the film yet :-.
[quote=āscherpschutter, post:9, topic:944ā]Havenāt seen it yet.
Is it like ā¦ SHANE ā¦ SHA-A-NE ā¦ SHAAA-AAA-AAANE ?[/quote]
Yes, but worse.
The annoying kid as well as the bell bottoms totally ruin it for me. Still a fun movie though.
Great movie, great bell bottoms, great annoying kid 
The English dub is worse than Django though, totally hideous :o
Didnāt ruin the film to me though
I need to order this movie soon. Seems like a good one.
This could have been the spaghetti with the most vicious scene ever filmed if the dynamite actually exploded on the kid. Man, they were italians, why didnāt they do it the way they know?
Pretty good film, although heavily influenced by A fistful of dollars. Without the kid and some overly dramatic parts of the score, it could have possibly entered my top-30.
7/10
Watched this for the second time last night. Iād seen it before over a year ago (or whenever the Wild East disc came out)
Cjamango is something of an oddity in that Ivan Rassimov plays a fellow who is not (despite all the rip-offs of No-Name & Django) an āanti-heroā at all. He is a real deal good guy. He saves women and children and vanquishes evil (in the form of Livio Lorenzon & Piero Lulli), and he doesnāt even seem to mind too much when things donāt ultimately go his way.
The Wild East version of this is only a little over 82 minutes and I suspect it is cut up a bit with some missing parts. There are simply tons of continuity errors, unexplained plot developments, & missing character motivations.
All that said, it is a fun and really enjoyable film and I liked it quite a lot.
As noted by Lindberg in the tread, the English dub is really awful. That is nowhere more apparent than in the precredit sequence in which Ivan plays a hand of poker with Pedro Sanchez. Pedroās dubbing is comically bad.
Ivan/Cjamango is cloned from Clint, poncho & cheroot intact. Before he can collect his poker winnings a cackling, laughing group of baddies enter the saloon and gun everybody down to get the gold. As a poor wounded Cjamango lays on the floor a large wooden table that had been upended rolls over to him and falls right onto his head. Ivan visibly flinches at the pain.
When he reappears after the opening credits Cjamango is now wearing a leather cape. Indeed, there are TWO cape wearing characters in this one. The other is Mr. Jane Mansfield. Ex-bodybuilder Mickey Hargitay plays a somewhat mysterious black clad āwhiskey drummerā whose presence is unexplained until the end. Heās a far cry from meek whiskey drummer Donald Meek in Fordās Stagecoach. This feller can take care of himself.
As noted, there IS a cute kid in this one and, unfortunately, he does not die an ignominious and pointless death.
Cjamango saves him several times (maybe he IS too nice a guy for the Italian west).
Couple of interesting things:
At one point Tigreās men are assembling around a fellow to shoot him. They form a circle and gun him down. The proverbial circular firing squad at work.
Cjamango gets the crap kicked out of him by BOTH Don Pabloās men and Tigreās men. It would be as if Joe got beat up by both the Rojos AND the Baxters. The beatings are back-to-back by the way.
Tigre lives in an old cavalry fort, albeit one with a discontinuous palisade.
Helene Chanel is beautiful and doomed.
I just canāt get over the ending. (Probably just to me) It is SO weird. The strangest Joseph, Mary & Jesus reference in Spaghettidom.
This one was pretty good. Better than I expected it to be as it is difficult for me to buy Rassimov as a hero. Heās great as a villain in films like ROME ARMED TO THE TEETH and EATEN ALIVE! (1980). His hero role here wasnāt shy about displaying emotions and that change in the typical euroater protagonist trait is enough reason to give this one a spin at least once.
I have another version of this film from a VHS source. I havenāt gotten around to checking the running time to see if it matches with the WE disc.
Would be interesting to see if your VHS is longer, Angel Face
Just checked both, Lindbergā¦
The Dutch tape (wide at what looks about 2:00.1) runs 82 minutes 51 seconds. This version bears the original Italian title.
The Wild East DVD (wide at 2:35.1) runs 82 minutes 24 seconds. This version bears a German title card for the films title only.
