Django [Blu-ray]

Overview

The first in a thirty-odd-volume series of spaghetti westerns, Django (Franco Nero) is a stranger who tries to mediate between rival American and Mexican gangs about to take control of a border town.

Product Details

Release Date:	12/11/2018
UPC:	0760137191384
Original Release:	1966
Rating:	NR
Source:	Arrow Video
Region Code:	A
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Mono]
Language:	English
Time:	3:04:00
Sales rank:	18,225

Special Features

2-Disc Limited Edition Contents: ; Limited edition SteelBook packaging; New restoration of Django from a 4K scan of the original camera negative by Arrow Films; New restoration of Texas, Adios from a 2K scan of the original camera negative by Arrow Films; High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentations; Uncompressed Mono 1.0 PCM audio; Original English and Italian soundtracks; Newly translated English subtitles for the Italian soundtracks; Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing for the English soundtracks; ; Disc 1 - Django: ; Audio commentary by film critic, historian and theorist Stephen Prince; Django Never Dies, newly filmed interview with star Franco Nero; Cannibal of the Wild West, newly filmed interview with assistant director Ruggero Deodato; Sergio, My Husband, newly filmed interview with Sergio Corbucci's wife Nori Corbucci; That's My Life: Part 1, unseen archival interview with co-writer Franco Rossetti; A Rock 'n' Roll Scriptwriter, an unseen archival interview with co-writer Piero Vivarelli; A Punch in the Face, an unseen archival interview with stuntman and actor Giberto Galimberti; Discovering Django, newly filmed appreciation by spaghetti westerns scholar Austin Fisher; An Introduction to Django by Alex Cox, an archival featurette with the acclaimed director; Gallery of original promotional images from the Mike Siegel archive; Original trailers; ; Disc 2, Texas, Adios [Limited Edition Exclusive]:; New audio commentary by spaghetti western experts C. Courtney Joyner and Henry C. Parke; The Sheriff is in Town, newly filmed interview with star Franco Nero; Jump into the West, newly filmed interview with co-star Alberto Dell'Acqua; That's My Life: Part 2, unseen archival interview with co-writer Franco Rossetti; Hello Texas!, newly filmed appreciation by spaghetti westerns scholar Austin Fisher; Gallery of original promotional images from the Mike Siegel archive; Original trailers

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Franco Nero	Django
Gino Pernice	Actor
Eduardo Fajardo	Jackson
Loredana Nusciak	Maria
Ángel Álvarez	Actor
Remo De Angelis	Actor
Simon Arriaga	Actor
Luciano Rossi	Actor
José Bódalo	Rodriguez
José Canalejas	Actor
Silvana Bacci	Mexican Saloon Girl
Flora Carosello	Black Hair Saloon Girl
Lucio De Santis	Whipping Bandit,Klan Member
Gilberto Galimberti	Klan Member
Cris Huerta	Mexican Officer
Giulio Maculani	Klan Member
Attilio Severini	Klan Member
Rafael Vaquero	Member of Hugo's Gang
Ivan Scratuglia	Actor
Luis Bacalov	Composer
Bruno Nicolai	Composer

Technical Credits

Sergio Corbucci

José Gutiérrez Maesso

Franco Rossetti

Piero Vivarelli

Sergio Corbucci	Director,Screenwriter,Screenwriter,Producer
José Gutiérrez Maesso	Screenwriter
Franco Rossetti	Screenwriter
Piero Vivarelli	Screenwriter
Manolo Bolognini	Producer
Enzo Barboni	Producer

Editorial Reviews

When the Italian movie studios saw Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars (1965) making dollars by the fistful they began rolling out Spaghetti Westerns by the conestoga load. One of the earliest efforts is still one of the genre's best, Sergio Corbucci's Django, a spare, hard-bitten, mean-spirited shot of pure adrenaline that counts Quentin Tarantino as one of its cult members (he stole the ear-cutting torture scene for Reservoir Dogs). Using Dollars as a template, Django tells its story almost with photographic storyboards, with the initial image of the sequence -- often an uncomfortably tight clasp -- sufficing to advance the story. Corbucci sets up a revenge motif for the ages, with the odds against the snarly hero woefully in the villains' favor, but Django thrives on the laughably unbalanced odds, as the results of the first bullet-strewn battle scene will attest. The finale, a graveyard shootout that has Django fanning his gun with pieces of meat showing through his bloody palms, is unthinkably brutal and nearly pornographic in its violence. Franco Nero, who became a star after this leading role, is an uncanny -- and clearly intentional -- double for Clint Eastwood's Man With No Name, complete with perpetual three-day growth, horse blanket poncho, and round-brimmed hat.