Product Details

• Actors: Franco Nero, Donald Pleasence, Christopher Connelly, Licinia Lentini, William Berger
• Format: Anamorphic, Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), Italian (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround)
• Region: All Regions
• Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
• Number of discs: 2
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
• DVD Release Date: October 26, 1999
• Run Time: 90 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00002RASV
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #154,262 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Django & Django Strikes Again" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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13 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Ear-munchin' western, November 14, 1999

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Diego Cordoba - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Django & Django Strikes Again (DVD)

Django was director's Sergio Corbucci pet project for a couple of years (he hardly finished the film, as half way through he ran out of money). It features italian actor Franco Nero in one of his first roles ever (he had been working as a fireman prior to making this film), and the film would spawn many other rip off's in name only. It remained so popular, that in Germany whenever there is a film with Franco Nero in it, they use the Django name (even if the film takes place nowadays). As far as the story goes, it features a black-clad gunslinger dragging a coffin through the mud, he arrives in a border town and pulls out a machine-gun from his coffin, killing about everyone in sight. The bad guys, of course don't appreciate this, and start torturing the locals. Among the tortures, there is the infamous ear-slicing scene that probably inspired Tarantino's in Reservoir Dogs, only that here it goes beyond anything you could have imagined (I'm referring to the uncut and uncensored version of this film, which I hope is the same as this DVD). Afterwards, a series of further tortures and sadism ensues, until our hero, against all odds, must beat the bad fuys in a cemetary. An incredible film, not for the faint-hearted, that included among it's crew members, director of photography Enzo Barboni, who would later on make the Trinity films (featuring a Franco Nero look-alike in Terence Hill) and Ruggero Deodato, who would make the infamous Cannibal Holocaust (when will this gorefest be released in DVD?). Django would also influence the Jimmy Cliff reggae gangster film The Harder They Come, which covers pretty much the same story. Django Strikes Again, on the other hand, is among the worst sequels ever made (hence, the overall 3 stars, 5 for Django and 1 for the sequel). Almost entirely shot in Colombia, South America (? ), featuring some of the country's worst local actors along the way. The least said about this inept sequel the better (when will Giulio Questi's Django Kill... If You Live Shoot! starring Tomas Milian be released?).

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars THE MAN WITH A NAME : DJANGO, June 15, 2002

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Daniel S. "Daniel" (Geneva, Switzerland) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Django & Django Strikes Again (DVD)

I won't argue here, the four westerns directed by Sergio Leone in the sixties fly high above the hundreds of spaghetti westerns shot in Spain, Greece, Portugal, Italy or Iceland during the same blessed period. However, this not a reason to overlook the cinematographic works of the outsiders of the italian master. Take Sergio Corbucci's DJANGO for instance. True that Franco Nero doesn't have Clint Eastwood's presence, true that DJANGO's supporting characters can't be compared with Gian-Maria Volontè or Klaus Kinski's hysterical apparitions.

So what, why leave this movie in the overpopulated Purgatory of forgotten movies. I was excited by the duels presented in Django, not by the machine-gun duels too predictible, but rather by the duel in Nathaniel's saloon or the final duel in a cemetery between a Franco Nero dealing with a crushed hand and the bad guys wearing red clothes so that you (and Django) can't miss them when the gunfight starts.

DJANGO STRIKES BACK, set in Mexico but shot in beautiful Colombia 20 years later, is not so exciting but you absolutely have to watch once the prologue of the movie, presented in italian with subtitles. Two pistoleros, well over the 60 years old mark, desperately try, after an hilarious gunfight, to remember the name of this legend of the West, the Man with the machine-gun. The irony of this scene is an excellent homage to Sergio Leone.

Two mini-interviews with Franco Nero, an interactive game for your kids, production notes and trailers complete this limited Anchor Bay edition.

A DVD zone outsiders.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars awesome double feature!, November 23, 2005

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Tom (NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Django & Django Strikes Again (DVD)

This is a fantastic DVD set with two very entertaining Django movies starring Franco Nero. Both flicks are fun stuff and this is a terrific DVD package with some cool extra features. IT'S GREAT! THANKS ANCHOR BAY!