Day two of my “Django Concatenated” excursus, following an overdose of Corbucci Westerns. The aim of this harebrained enterprise is to (re-)watch all those films whose Italian titles contain “Django” and/or whose protagonists are called Django in the Italian version. Originally, I had fourteen “fake” Django movies on my list, plus the original and its “official” sequel from 1987, plus three Spanish films retitled for the Italian market. Now I’ve found JonathanCorbett’s list which contains three more Djangos. I’ll see about that later.
Corbucci’s original Django was released in Italy on April 6, 1966, and cinema audiences were without a doubt very pleased to see Django return to the big screen only five months later, on September 9, in person of Anthony Steffen in León Klimovsky’s Pochi dollari per Django. Or maybe not. I’ve re-watched the English-language version of that film, and there’s no relation whatsoever to Corbucci and Nero’s Django. Therefore its “relevance for an even better understanding of the original character’s motivations in particular and for Django’s biography and its gaping holes in general” factor is zero, zilch, nada. – Tonight: Alberto De Martino’s Django spara per primo, starring Glenn Saxson.