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| Locandina | Italian Poster ( X2 ) | Japanese Program Book |
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| JP Seven Seas HIT-1452 | IT Parade 45 PRC 5006 |
| English Title | A Few Dollars for Django |
| Director | Leon Klimovsky |
| Screenplay | Manuel Sebares , Tito Carpi |
| Photography | Aldo Penelli |
| Music | Carlo Savina |
| Cast | Anthony Steffen , Gloria Osuna , Frank Wolff , Joe Kamel , Alfonso Rojas , Tomas Moore |
Spanish director Leon Klimovsky couldn't be faulted for sheer hard work. During the major Spaghetti boom no fewer than twelve westerns bore the Klimovsky name, many of them with genre stars such as John Ireland, Richard Harrison and, in this case, Anthony Steffen. Klimovsky was an accomplished horror director, no talentless hack like Demofilo Fidani (the famous/ notorious 'Miles Deem'). Despite the quantity of his Spaghetti output however,, the quality of the films was never better than pedestrian. Kilimovsky couldn't make decent westerns. Atmosphere and pacing eluded him completely even as the films kept coming. However did he get away with it? A Few Dollars For Django is a typical Klimovsky film. It isn't terrible. It's just dull for most of its length until a decent action finale; probably the work of assistant director Enzo Girolami (the future Enzo G Castelari, director of Keoma). The cast, Steffen and Frank Wolff try, and composer Carlo Savina provides the passable score including the gloriously over the top Don Powell title song. It all helps and, as he huffs and puffs through the story we can see Klimovsky needs all the help he can get. As the title indicates, this is a Django spinoff. Unsurprisingly there's no Django in sight. The lead character is a bounty killer called Reagan (Steffen). Reagan's job- vaguely plotted- is to investigate the twin brother of a dead bandit, Norton in Montana where ranchers and farmers are feuding over grazing rights (historically true, incidentally). Reagan finds a dead sheriff on the way and impersonates the man whilst checking out both Norton's twin and his niece (who doesn't know her father was a bandit). Local ranchers want Reagen out of the way whilst farmers want Norton to get of his pacifist fence and help them. When he's forced into a fight, Norton (Frank Wolff) proves to be good- too good, perhaps as good as his bandit twin... How surprising. Smelling a rat, Reagan can't quite prove it, but ultimately doesn't have to. As a full scale conflict looms between ranchers and farmers, Norton admits to Reagen that he is indeed the bandit and together the pair lead the farmers into an heroic stand (as well as leading the film out of the doldrums). Inevitably Norton dies in the fight, leaving Reagan and Norton's daughter to greet a completely baffling legal settlement that seems to prohibit ranchers crossing farmers' land.... unless they want to. On this pompous, mock epic, note Klimovsky ends the film ready to start another equally mundane Western project elsewhere. |
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Mon, 20 Jul 1998 23:40:58