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Django & Django Strikes Again (2pc) (Ws)
Price: $64.65 Prices subject to change.
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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Fabric Type: 0013131093599
Graphics Memory Size: Anamorphic, Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
Maximum Color Depth: Starz / Anchor Bay
Maximum Focal Length: EnglishUnknownDolby Digital 2.0 SurroundEnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.0 SurroundItalianDubbedDolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Metal Type: Starz / Anchor Bay
Processor Count: 2
Total Firewire Ports: Starz / Anchor Bay
Total Parallel Ports: October 26, 1999
Total S Video Out Ports: 90 minutes
Starz / Anchor Bay
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Django Along with Sergio Leone's Clint Eastwood trilogy, Sergio Corbucci's Django, starring Belgian hunk Franco Nero as the gritty mercenary who drags a coffin behind him, was one of the most influential spaghetti Westerns. After mowing down armies of bad guys with his machine gun (which he brandishes in classic two-fisted tough-guy fashion--from the hip), he stages a daring gold heist from a Mexican military fortress and then plots to double-cross his bandito partners. Corbucci, who cowrote the story, fashions an unrelentingly violent tale of rival gangs squeezing the life out of a muddy, bloody border town, reveling in the sadism of the genre. The film opens with a woman strung up and lashed by a group of lascivious bandits, only to be saved by even more sadistic gunmen who plan to burn her alive, and Django fan Quentin Tarantino borrowed the scene where a vindictive general slices the ear off a corrupt preacher for Reservoir Dogs. While not as stylish as Leone's operatic epics, Django pushed the borders of violence into all-new territory, and the film was banned outright in England and cut in the U.S. It spawned 20 unofficial sequels before Nero returned 20 years later for the only legitimate sequel, Django Strikes Again. In the meantime, Nero followed up this grimy antihero role with a turn as the singing medieval superknight Lancelot in Camelot! Also features a short interview with Nero.
Django Strikes Again Franco Nero returns in the only official sequel to Sergio Corbucci's trendsetting Django. Twenty years later the repentant gunman has buried his past and entered a monastery, but he is rallied into action when his daughter is kidnapped by slave-driving Prussian autocrat Christopher Connelly. Captured and set to work in Connelly's silver mine, Django escapes with the help of a prisoner (a warm performance by Donald Pleasance), digs up his trusty machine gun, and returns wielding death, appropriately from the seat of a hearse. Django Strikes Again was shot in the jungles of Columbia, and the landscape only vaguely resembles the American Gulf Coast, but the lush river settings create a magnificent backdrop for the film's set piece, which features a black, armored steamship that cruises local towns for mine slaves and young girls to be sold to the bordellos. Director Ted Archer maintains the strong brutal streak that runs through the history of Italian westerns. Kids are tortured and monasteries and convents raided by Connelly's men, while Django beheads a pair of raiders with a swipe of a scythe. The carefully plotted (if at times preposterous) story and the transformation of Django from heartless mercenary lifts this from the mire of spaghetti Western sadism to create a genuinely involving film that is, at its best, better than its inspiration. Also features a short interview with Nero. --Sean Axmaker
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I give the fist movie 3 stars (Django). The other disk...... throw it away I give that movie -3 stars for wasting 90 min. of my life. Buy the vesion that only has Django.
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Other then "The Great Silence" - Most Corbucci films are inept, sloppy, and cartoonish. Speed Racer can be less cartoonsish. (just check out Navajo Joe or Campaneros).
In Django a laconic anti-hero drags around a crucifix incrusted coffin with a little surprise inside. I assume Django must represent the vengeful Christ of Revelations. This is because as Christ figure Django certainly is not of the "turn the other cheek" variety. Django seems to be surrounded by more Christ symbolism ... Read More
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This is a fantastic DVD set with two very entertaining Django movies starring Franco Nero. Both flicks are fun stuff and this is a terrific DVD package with some cool extra features. IT'S GREAT! THANKS ANCHOR BAY!
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Not sure about director 'Ted Archer' but one thing is certain: 'Ted Archer' is not Guiseppe Colizzi or Sergio Carbucci! -- however 'Ted' is still a gifted director all the same. Likewise not sure if 'Django Strikes Again' truly qualifies as a spaghetti western or just as an offbeat Italian film? Whatever the case diehard Italian film/spaghetti western lovers will love this movie but everyone else will probably loathe it as we can see from the one-star reviews already submitted. For those of us who ... Read More
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This film is the perfect counterpoint to Leone's "Once Upon a Time in the West," which rewards the patient viewer with a slowly unfolding mythic tale that ends up transcending both the American and Spaghetti western genres. Corbucci, as always, is an impatient director, beginning his film not with an interminable wait for a train, but with a simple image of a gunfighter hauling a coffin and saddle (most people forget that little detail) behind him through a muddy wasteland. Enzo Barboni's exquisite ... Read More
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