Quel maledetto giorno d'inverno... Django e Sartana all'ultimo
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Quel maledetto giorno d'inverno... Django e Sartana all'ultimo (1970 / Demofilo Fidani (as Miles Deem))
Also known as
Django e Sartana (Italy) | Lo sceriffo (Italy) | Quel maledetto giorno d'inverno... Django e Sartana all'ultimo (Argentina) | Django moeder Satan (Denmark) | Django ontmoet Sartana (Netherlands) | Django et Sartana (France) | Django e Sartana... ate ao ultimo sangue (Portugal) | Duell i grybubgen (Sweden) | Django and Sartana's Showdown in the West | One Damned Day at Dawn .. Django meets Sartana!
Cast
Hunt Powers (Django), Stet Carson [Fabio Testi] (Jack Ronson/Sheriff Sartana), Dean Stratford [Dino Strano] (Bud Willer/Wheeler), Dennis Colt [Benito Pacifico] (paco Sanchez), Simone Blondell [Simonetta Vitelli] (Dolores), Lucky McMurray [Luciano Conti] (Joe 'The Worm' Smith), Robert Danish [Roberto Danesi] (Mordera), Dan Reese [Attilio Dottesio] (Bill/Willy McLaren), Joel Moore, Michael Brank [Michele Branca](Sanchez henchman), Celso Faria (Frank Cutler), Mariella Palmich (Widow Sturgers), Franco Pasquetto (Peter Struges), Pietro Torrisi (Paco), Antonio Basile (Bart), Franco Graziosi, Luciano Pallota
- Story: Demofilo Fidani
- Screenplay: Demofilo Fidani, M.R. Vitelli Valenza
- Cinematography: Franco Villa [Eastmancolor]
- Music: Coriolano Gorri (as Lallo Gori)
- Producer: Demofilo Fidani
Synopsis
A famous bounty hunter arrives in Black City to rid it of the tyrannous Budd Wheeler and the Mexican bandit, Sanchez. Complications arise when another hired killer shows up in town...
Review
Containing far too many significant glances and hooded, sidelong leers, this is the sort of film which made the spaghetti western genre ripe for parody by the early 1970s. Unfortunately, Fidani is quite serious. Hunt Powers plays Django, who doesn't do much of interest throughout the film, and the omnipresent Fabio Testi co-stars as Sartana. Sartana is in disguise as a sheriff who comes to a frontier town called "Citta Nera" to rid it of a stereotypically evil town boss played by Dean Stratford (aka Dino Strano). Of course, Stratford is also running guns with a Mexican bandit (Dennis Colt) and a character called the Worm (Lucky McMurray). The climax features a large but uninspiring gunfight which pits Django and Sartana on one side and the bad guys on the other. It doesn't make much sense, which is hard to avoid when one paints by the numbers as Fidani does, but he somehow manages to obscure even the most trivial plot detail in a montage of reaction shots from sweaty, dusty men with murder on their minds and mysterious women with heaving chests. It could perhaps be viewed as comical if it weren't so terribly dull.
DVD
- Available in France by Evidis (French audio only?)
- Possibly from Wild East in 2008
