Djurado (Giovanni Narzisi, 1966)

Clackamas-Jack · October 12, 2021, 2:21am

Just watched this film and i would say it is okay at best. I was drawn in by the intro showing the loading of a plastic toy gun. I didn’t realize saying “Hey Rattlesnakes!” would start a bar brawl either.

Carlos · June 16, 2023, 4:12pm

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Mickey13 · November 16, 2023, 4:48pm

Copied from the Spagvemberfest 2023 thread:

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To be perfectly frank, I am shocked at the lenience with which people tend to approach this absolute dreck of a motion picture. Not a single aspect of it proves even remotely passable and the absolute technical scurviness cannot be explained by the miniscule budget seeing that most of these ventures were produced on shoestring budgets with very little latitude in the way the filmmakers could creatively shape their movies. Not only is the underlying premise mind-bogglingly derivative, but also the fashion in which the storyline progresses turns out almost laughable and verges on becoming parodic, except that the intent is most certainly serious here for better or for worse. The directing smacks of a certain amateurish negligence which is particularly evident in its conspicuous visual abjectedness and fugly camerawork evoking in its utter squalor and tastelessness some of the worst dregs of the genre.

Some otiose attempts at comedy, e.g. the one in which the girl owning the cardboard saloon opens fire at the low-rent Giuliano Gemma clone only to offer him a drink a bit later, are so execrable and downright atrocious they prompted me to physically facepalm at one point, I mean what the heck were they thinking. The technical decrepitude does not end there, some of the montage is so out of whack it calls into question the basic competence of people who were tasked with assembling this abysmal failure of a flick. The turkey climaxes in what could be termed a soft deus-ex-machina which certainly bespeaks writing and creative helplessness, but by that stage, the salient want of legitimate ideas becomes demonstrably clear, so at that point, one simply exuberates at the finale, though not because of its inherent qualities, but rather because it signals the termination of the torture. What a despicable piece of trash.

Admin · October 13, 2024, 9:23am

New review by @Perdono

LooneyElmerFudd · January 30, 2025, 7:50am

Did a first time watch this week without much expectations and that worked fine for this movie. After a long day of work, full stomach lying down in a hotel room with just needing some entertaining, this movie fitted. No hard thinking about the movie afterwards, a short thread with mixed opinions which I can share, so yeah, not top notch but that is not always what you need.

Montero · September 22, 2025, 3:23pm

‘Djurado’ opened in the UK at Futurist Cinema, Birmingham on 5th October 1969. It had a limited release (below) but returned in 1974 for a wider run as support feature to Alex Jung’s ‘King of Kung Fu’.

Futurist Cinema, Birmingham (5th Oct 69 - 11th Oct 69)
ABC Higher Blackley (Victoria Avenue Cinema), Manchester (3rd Nov 69 - 5th Nov 69)
ABC Barrow (Ritz Cinema) (7th Dec 69 - 10th Dec 69)
Regent Picture Theatre, Hull (22nd Feb 70 - 28th Feb 70)
Empire Cinema, Huddersfield (23rd Mar 70 - 25th Mar 70)
ABC Cheetham Hill, Manchester (12th Apr 70)
Scala Cinema, Liverpool (19th Apr 70 - 25th Apr 70)
Biograph Cinema, Victoria (16th Dec 71 - 18th Dec 71)
Waldorf Cinema, Sparkbrook, Birmingham (16th Apr 72)
Odeon Canterbury (14th Oct 72)
Biograph Cinema, Victoria (22nd July 73)

Source below: (Birmingham Evening Mail, 4th October, 1969)