Some Dollars for Django was retitled to cash in on the success (and notoriety) of Corbucci’s landmark movie Django (1).
The on-screen title says Diango, so with an i. Apparently those responsible for changing the title, felt a little awkward about it.
The Diango mistake is only in the redone credits, the original version is correct. See below
New poll on the original post for this one. 
Oh and in fact @Carlos has already transformed this film’s page in the database to the new layout a while ago. We welcome corrections, additions and other input of any kind.
Touché
Mr Corbett - those redone credits are very odd. Most of it is in Italian but some of it is in English (‘Guest Star’ credit for Frank Wolff). What were they generated for?
What’s cut from the C’est La Vie DVD?
By the way, I agree with the other comments about this film. The scene in which Steffen meets Osuna was especially awkward from Steffen’s viewpoint (whereas she was acting ‘properly’).
I also noticed that Wolff didn’t seem to reload when he was shooting all those guys with the rifle (and had no spare bullets to hand unless in his pocket as he’d grabbed weapon in a hurry), one guy seemed to be shot twice (albeit different angles to try and fool audience) and the corpses kept changing position.
This was censor signed off in August 1966. Probably back track 4-5 months for shooting so probably filmed March-May 1966 (4-6 week shoot erring on the former). So, Django was still unreleased when they filmed this one. Is Regan referred to as Django in any prints? Or was it too late to change the dubbing. In Django Shoots First, released in October 1966, they were able to alter the dubbing and say that Django was his nickname.
Yes, in the Italian version the main character is called Django Regan. Several years ago this was also asked by Stanton in the Real-fake Django(s) thread
At first the title was Ringo non perdona. For this one, E venne un gringo.
It’s not clear, evidently someone who was anything but precise preferred yellow and didn’t like the original font…
Sorry
Ringo non perdonna is which film?
And which film is E venne un gringo?
I’ll try and find the fake Django thread!
‘E venne un gringo’ was changed to ‘Pochi dollari per Django’.
‘Ringo non perdona’ was changed to ‘Django spara per primo’.
Thanks
A bit strange that Django Shoots First was originally a Ringo movie given the main character isn’t called Ringo. The bounty hunter character played by José Manuel Martin in the opening scene is called Ringo but I had assumed this was intended as a joke via the dubbing so that ‘Django’ killed ‘Ringo’ (although Corbucci had already done that one).
This (documented by the censorship certificate) is not surprising considering the great success of De Martino’s previous western 100.000 dollari per Ringo.
On the question of Gemma rejecting De Martino as director there are two conflicting versions in Marco Giusti’s dictionary and in Castellari’s autobiography (Fort Yuma Gold directed by De Martino or Django Shoots First starring Gemma?), but this has nothing to do with Some Dollars for Django with Steffen.
According to the Italian censor certificate it was submitted with a German title ‘Nur der Colt War Sein Freund’ .
(This was originally about Few Dollars for Django title also)
An advert from the Kensington News and West London Times, 11th November 1967. Unusually in the UK for an Italian western not made by Sergio Leone, ‘A Few Dollars for Django’ was given top billing, often supported by ‘Joe Butterfly’ or ‘An Orchid for the Tiger’. It played extensively throughout 1967 and 1968.
In this screening the support is a 1961 black and white thriller Door to Door Maniac. The X rating for Door to Door Maniac contaminates the entire double bill to an X even though the Django movie is only an A which seems daft of the distributor especially as they had accepted cuts for the A rating.
‘A Few Dollars for Django’ opened 2nd July 1967. This modest spaghetti western was rarely off the UK cinema screens for the next two years.
A COWBOY WHO HATES THE BANGS by Mario de Aratanha
“Italian Westerns will now change into gag-like films, mocking the stereotyped characters of the American Westerns,” says Brazilian-Italian screen cowboy Anthony Steffen. “But violence will go on with many deaths and lots of blood,” he says.
Steffen, born Antonio de Teffé, son of the late Brazilian racing driver and diplomat Manuel de Teffé was in Rio on vacation, relaxing from all the shooting and kissing of his four films per year. Resting on Copacabana Beach, Steffen saids he needs to relax because he hates shooting. “Even when it’s me shooting I always want to run away from the studio,” he said. “I can’t stand the shooting noise, it explodes inside me.” But his hate of gunfire does not keep him from making more shoot-'em-up films. After the thirteen pictures he filmed as “Ringo,” “Django,” and other heroes, Steffen has just finished playing “Durango,” in the film “A Train for Durango” with Enrico Maria Salerno, scheduled for release in Italy and the United States this spring.
The “man who is making 100 dollars a shot” as a Brazilian magazine called him, says he prefers Italy to Hollywood. “The financial conditions in Italy are much better,” he said. “But a career in Italy is a battlefield: we have to fight against everyone. I’m in the front line, but the war goes on.”
Accustomed to killing bandits and saving pretty girls on the screen, Steffen has also been a hero in real life. Some years ago in Rio, the cable car to the famed Sugar Loaf mountain got stuck, after a steel cable snapped. Passengers, mostly American tourists, remained suspended for almost 12 hours, while Steffen helped firemen evacuate them. “A big hero,” newspapers here called him, predicting his future screen career.
(Manchester Evening News, 13th January, 1968)
Source below: (Sunday Sun, 19th November, 1967)
Wrong! … he’s known only as ‘Gringo’, unless in some other dubbed version they give him another title?
