Customer Reviews
classic western - By: P.L, 14 May 2008 
Django one the most famous westerns on a par with any of Sergio Leones films. Franco Nero is great as Django there are some great scenes including the the famous scene when a man has his ear cut of & is made to eat it. The violence resulted in this film being banned in the uk for years. Nowadays the violence is quite mild with the film now only a 15 rating.Regardless of the violence the film is excellent & a recomended purchess for spaghetti western lovers & newcomers alike. buy it now!
The uk dvd from Argent films looks quite good it is presented in anamorphic widescreen (1:66.1)the print shows some damage for a couple of minutes but it goes away & the film looks quite nice.The soundtarack is the english dub which isnt very good the italian one would have been prefrable.
The dvd has some good extras including an interview with Franco Nero, an introduction with Alex Cox ,the films trailer & trailers for A Bullet for the General, Django Kill, Keoma & Texas Addios.
EXELLENT! - By: Coach Potato, 03 Nov 2006 DJANGO is one of the best spaghetti westerns, equel to any of the Sergio Leone pictures. DJango is alll about excess, a throughly apted up, over the top epic! With a catchy theme tune & carismatic star this is worth any body's money.
Django begins with Franco Nero dragging a coffin through a bleak & swamp like outback! Gone is alll the John Wayne mythology, were cowboys are the galant kneights of the frontier, here life is cheap; & if your not careful SHORT!
A classic of the genre - By: Mr. E. A. Williamson, 09 Jun 2005 One of the best & most popular of the non-Leone spaghetti westerns,a fanboy favourite with spaghetti western fans & cult movie enthusiasts the world over & inspiration to such cool,hip directors as Tarrentino.It also started a craze of imitators that spread across Europe,most of them re-titled to cash in on the name of this movie but very few could match its energy & raw power.
A Fist Full of Dollars was obviously a big influence with Django with a similar story line & leading man.In the legendary opening we meet Django,a cool,quiet but sinister figure dragging a coffin through muddy western town.After he rescues a women from a band of Mexicans,gunning alll of them down & upsets the local town mayor by doing the same to a bunch of his men he stays in the town brothel & finds himself in a war between the mayor & the Mexican outlaws & very soon they find out just what is in the coffin.
Again like Fist Full of Dollars,Django has its roots in Japanese Samurai cinema such as Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo but compared to the work of Leone is far less polished.Director Sergio Corbucci filmed this rough & dirty with nearly every scene running thick in mud & the voilence as hard as you could go for the mid 60's with a death toll of hundreds & scenes of tourture that got into trouble with the censors on its initial release such as the ear slicing & the smashing of Django's hands.
For a low budget movie this is extremely well made.Corbucci didnt shoot this in scope as other western directors did which gives it a less traditional feel but manages to cram rich cinematography into the tight 1.66:1 framing & gives a fantastic claustrophobic atmosphere.
The cast are superb to with the legendary Franco Nero as Django,the best man with no name next to Clint. This film won him respect & a great many roles including big blockbusters such as Die Hard 2.
Django is available on DVD for the first in the UK,but the disc to go for is US based Blue Undergrounds region O DVD.The transfer has been taken from original vault materals & apart from a tiny amount of damage[which Blue Underground apologise for!]this is flawless.Anamorphicly enhanced at 1.66:1 the detail is amazing & colour is dead on,just check out the close ups of Django's face.Sound is as good as you can expect from a 40year old dub track & for the purists you have option of listening to the original italian mix[with English subs.
Extras consist of interviews with Franco Nero & assistant director who is non-other than Ruggero Deodato who went on to make a name for himself directing Cannibal Holocaust.
To round off the excellent package you get a bonus DVD[which is a very novel mini CD single size]of a short film staring Nero callled The Last Pistolero.
Excellent & recommended to any serious film fan or lover of italian cinema.Movie-***** Picture-***** Sound-*** Extras-****
Ratings are out of five
Django!!! - By: P. Cumine, 14 Feb 2005 
Incredibly influential spaghetti/piella western. A very good film, not quite up there with Leones trilogy, but well worth a watch.
Wonderful Film!!! - By: , 04 Jun 2004 This is the first in a series of spagheti westerns about Django. It is an overly violent (think Kill Bill vol. 1), entertaining & eccentric tale about Django, a bandit, being searched for by the Klu Klux Klan. It is an exceptional film & my only criticism would be that the sequels were not as good. This is a region 0 DVD & will work on any player.
