Django (1966 film)

"A century ago on the low hills along the border between the southern states and turbulent Mexico, a mystery man appeared... a man with a sad, impenetrable face. Who was that man? What was his secret?"

"He was pitiless in revenge, quick to decide, and a master of every weapon... a man everybody would liked to have seen dead!"

"DJANGO - The title of a film you'll never forget!"

"Django. An audacious man of action, capable of a tender, hopeless love which could only last a day... But a day which was worth all eternity."

"Django! A new, ruthless, violent film! Featuring a great new star... Franco Nero! And a great supporting cast!"

"He killed for gold... He killed for his woman... He killed for himself!"

"The Most Controversial and Sought-After Spaghetti Western Of Them All!"

"The movie that spawned a genre."

"I had no idea it would turn out to be so special. It wasn't just a success; it was a phenomenon. Everywhere I go people shout "Django" at me. Even today, as I am working in Brazil, kids call me Django. In Japan, they won't even put my name on movie posters, they put "Django". In Germany, they call all my movies Django; I did a great movie about the Sicilian mafia and they called it Django in the Mafia. The Shark Hunter they called Django Django. They say: "Well, it's your problem.""

"The opening – a medium shot on the back of Django’s head as he walks away from camera – is the opening shot of Yojimbo. And the ending could be Fistful of Dollars, or A Pistol for Ringo, or Return of Ringo, or any of the Spaghetti Westerns in which the hero’s gun-hand is injured. Except that this is Django, and while the idea may be the same, Corbucci takes it to some weirder, crueller level of Surrealist violence; amplifies the sacrificial religious symbolism of the hero-with-damaged-hands by staging the showdown in a cemetery; and, in case we still don’t get the joke, naming his lead character after the jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt, famous as a brilliant musician despite a serious deformity of one hand."

"Franco Nero as Django"

"Loredana Nusciak as María"

"José Bódalo (as José Bodalo) as General Hugo Rodríguez"

"Ángel Álvarez (as Angel Alvarez) as Nathaniel"

"Eduardo Fajardo as Major Jackson"

"Gino Pernice (as Jimmy Douglas) as Brother Jonathan"

"Simón Arriaga (as Simon Arriaga) as Miguel"

"Giovanni Ivan Scratuglia (as Ivan Scratuglia) as Klansman #1"