The Django Chain
Django Unchained is the latest in a long line of Django knockoffs. Here are four of the best Django outings
Django (Sergio Corbucci, 1966)
Introducing the rough and ready, coffin dragging quick shooter played by the legend Franco Nero. Bathed in mud, blood and quicksand our morally sinking anti-hero plays rival gangs off against each other to the death. Now where have we heard that story before?
Django Kill! (Giulio Questi, 1967)
An altogether darker and more depraved tale, riding in on Django’s success although featuring no character of this name or link to the original. Director Questi was no fan of the genre but thought it the perfect canvas for humanity's failings: narcissism and greed.
The Great Silence (Sergio Corbucci, 1968)
Substituting desert sand for ice and snow while maintaining the cruel beauty of its spaghetti predecessors, this is a stone cold classic. A villainous, fur clad Klaus Kinski terrorises a local community and the sacrificial mute hero Silence. The most striking of the Italian westerns, until...
Keoma (Enzo G. Castellari, 1978)
Twelve years from Django, Nero features here as a much tougher piece of leather. A weather beaten, bare chested, shaggy haired ‘half-breed.’ Saturated in moody mise-en-scène and whipped by whistling winds, Keoma is a triumph of both style and substance.