Django is on the trail of some renegade outlaws who raped and killed his
wife. En route, he rescues a horse thief from an impromptu hanging. He
discovers the man knows who committed the murder. The men team up and
head west for revenge.
Viva Django is a 1968 Italian spaghetti western film directed by Ferdinando Baldi. The film stars Terence Hill in the title role and it kicks ass.
A group of bandits raped and murdered a woman that, for their bad luck,
was
Django's wife.After that,the famous gunman goes in a vengeance against the
bad guys, killing everyone in his trail. This is perhaps Terence Hill's greatest role. He oozes
class, clad all in black and convincingly playing the character second
only to the Man With No Name for pure charisma. The rest of the cast is
also a real treat - with both Eastman and Frank as brilliant as ever.
Eastman's characters alway manage to be quite likable regardless of
their bad morals and actions, whilst Frank just oozes with evil. Two of
the great great supporting actors of the genre.
All the essential ingredients of spaghetti
westerns are here, including digging on the graveyard and a shootout
with a machine-gun taken from a coffin. Gianfranco Reverbi provides a really recognizible score, and the title
theme track "You'd Better Smile" will stick in the head for days. This is a good film and if you like westerns then it's right up your alley. Seek it out.
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Trivia:
German Import DVD has a Super-8 Version (German language only), as a special feature on the disc.
Following the success of the Bud Spencer/Terence Hill
Italo western comedies in Germany this film was re-released as a
re-dubbed comedy version in the late 1970s. Therefore it was heavily cut
to 82 minutes and changed in plot. Django (now renamed to Joe) even
mentions "the big" a few times referring to several characters of Bud
Spencer in other movies.
Django had his name changed into Trinita for the French version, but no attempt to turn the film into a comedy was ever made.
