Django - I want him dead
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Django - I want him dead |
| Original title | Lo voglio morto |
| Country of production | Italy , Spain |
| original language | Italian |
| Publishing year | 1968 |
| length | 86 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Paolo Bianchini |
| script | Carlos Sarabia |
| production | Lucio Bompani |
| music | Nico Fidenco |
| camera | Ricardo Andreu |
| cut | Eugenio Alabiso |
| occupation | |
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Django - I want him dead (Original title: Lo voglio morto ) is a 1968 spaghetti western with the American actor Craig Hill in the leading role; it was directed by Paolo Bianchini . In the German-speaking area it started on July 3, 1970.
action
The American Civil War is drawing to a close. The cowboy Clayton accompanies an old friend who wants to buy a farm. Payments should be made in the currency of the southern states, which is why the contract does not come about because it has now become worthless. During these negotiations, Clayton's sister is murdered by Jack Blood and an accomplice in the hotel where both were staying. When Clayton asks the sheriff for help, he is denied it. Clayton therefore goes in search of the murderers himself and finds them on a rural ranch where a whole group of bandits live and two young women are held prisoner as slaves.
Clayton infiltrates and learns from the women that the businessman Mallek is delivering weapons to the southern states and is doing everything possible to continue the war. An upcoming meeting between top officials from the Northern and Southern states jeopardizes those interests, so Mallek is offering $ 100,000 for anyone who attacks the meeting. At the ranch, Marisol, one of the women, is killed while the other, Aloma, escapes with Clayton. Not only can Clayton kill his sister's murderer and enable the army representatives to meet, but he also supports the bandits in eliminating each other, as everyone wants to receive the suspended money for themselves. Clayton takes the money and rides Aloma to buy the farm.
Remarks
The film song "Clayton" is interpreted by Lida Lu ; the outdoor shots were taken in the Almería region and in the Turre area .
The FSK working committee only approved the film with six cuts, of which the main committee cashed two again a week later and the legal committee three weeks later also canceled the rest. The reason given was that the objectionable scenes "did not fall out of the other rawness of the film in such a way that their removal seems necessary."
criticism
“The film is constructed extremely simply, but pleases because of the really effective staging. The extensive brutalities make the film unsuitable for monastery students, but they illustrate the meanness in the world in which the film takes place very vividly ”, judged Christian Keßler. “ The best genre contribution by Paolo Bianchini ”, said Ulrich P. Bruckner .
The Italian colleagues criticized that the film lived “less from its improbable and constructed story than from individual scenes and situations that are spectacularly staged”.
In contrast, the lexicon of international films was very negative: “Completely unimaginative spaghetti westerns, unnecessarily brutal and sadistic.” Even the Protestant film observer does not think much of the film: “Django westerns according to the law of the series, hard, perfect in the design, impersonal and uninteresting. "
Web links
- Django - I want him dead in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The film at comingsoon
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jürgen Kniep: “No youth release!” Film censorship in West Germany 1949 - 1990 , Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2010, p. 227
- ↑ Christian Keßler: Welcome to Hell. 2002, p. 135.
- ↑ Ulrich P. Bruckner: For a few more corpses. Munich 2006, p. 609
- ↑ Segnalazione Cinematografiche, Vol. 65, 1968
- ↑ Django - I want him dead. In: Lexicon of international films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Evangelical Press Association, Munich, Review No. 289/1970.