Django Desafia Sartana

The title of this movie is somewhat misleading, for while the eponymous duo do briefly clash ,for they most part they work together against their mutual enemies ,the bad guys.

Django (Tony Kendall) has a brother ,Steve ,who is employed by a frontier bank and has a reputation as a womaniser.He is set up on a false charge of bank robbery ,caught while entertaining a lady of the night and summarily hung without trial despite the best endeavours of the local Sheriff to save him from the lynch mob.His alleged partner in the crime was Sartana-who is equally guiltless of the deed .Django descends on the town but turns away without wreaking vengeance and sets out after Sartana .After a brief but intense fist fight they are made aware of the truth .The criminal was the banker himself(Jose Torres) ,and to compound his villainy he took his own niece captive as a hostage should the need arise .Django and Sartana combine forces to exact revenge and rescue the girl There are some touches of the well nigh obligatory sadism associated with the Spaghetti Western but for the most part this a traditional Western well enough executed without being outstanding .

(1970) Django Challenges Sartana/ Django defies Sartana/ Django sfida Sartana DUBBED SPAGHETTI WESTERN MYSTERY

Written and directed by Pasquale Squitieri that has Django (Tony Kendall) and his posse taking on Cuervo and his gang. And when news hits, Django becomes the talk of the town just as soon as Sartana (George Ardisson) comes into town. Head banker, Phillip Singer (Bernard Faber) asking one of it's employees, Steve Farrell (John Alvar) who happens to be Django's brother to personally deliver $3,000 over to him so that he won't rob the town's bank. Sartana becomes insulted and kicks Steve out of his rented room. And when the head banker, Phillip Singer gets shot, and the banks money goes missing, it is then assumed Sartana conspired with Django's brother to steal the town's money. Leading the entire town to lynch and hang Steve by the townspeople. By the time Django shows up, and finds out what happen he vows retribution assuming that that was exactly what may have happened. What ends up happening is that the head banker, Phillip Singer was alive all along and that it was a scheme to steal the town's money. All he did was change his name to Don Fellippe, both him and his wife succeeded in fooling the townspeople. Django seeking retribution to what happened to his brother with Sartana wanting to clear his name coming with them is a mute named Loco (José Torres).

Watchable quickie mess that consists of an interesting set up that gets bogged down with uninteresting shoots outs and a mediocre fisticuff sequence between Django and Sartana. And like if that was my brother who was falsely accused like Django's brother was, beside the head banker and his wife, I think I'd also go after some of the townspeople who participated in that lynching via "Hang Em High", I assumed the writer and director of this movie by the name of Pasquale Squitieri may not have seen that movie.

I'm a fan of westerns, this was watchable, but very average. The story does keep you interested, the lead actors are reasonably convincing, and the camera work is different.

Djangos brother is accused of helping the gunman Sartana rob the bank. The townsfolk take the law into their own hands and hang him. Django blames Sartana for the incident, and goes out to track him down. However, there is a twist to the story and things don't turn out the way we're led to believe.

Worth watching if you've nothing better to do. The music at times leaves a lot to be desired.

The most dangerous gunman Sartana is in town, everybody expects the worst after he spectacularly taught a young wannabe a lesson. And to nobody's surprise, within a few days the bank has been robbed, Sartana disappears and Django's younger brother Steve as suspected to have helped him. Steve is hanged by the enraged citizens, although he swore he was innocent. Django follows Sartana to avenge his brother and find out the truth about the bank robbery...

This is a rather good movie, not one of the best, but among the upper half of the countless Django flicks. Especially Ardisson impressed me as Sartana - a professional, cold as ice! Django is portrayed more emotional by Kendall. The wild, jazzy music by Umiliani is almost over the top sometimes. "They call him Django" is a rather traditional title song, though.

While Django is away, the town bank is cleaned out and the bank president killed. Django's brother is lynched by an angry mob, who believe he and Sartana responsible, sending Django on a mission of vengeance...against Sartana!

This has a few effective moments, like when Django discovers his brother's corpse and his first encounter with Sartana. Most of the time though, it's just plain slow, with forgettable title performances by Tony Kendall and George Ardisson. Things pick up in the final third of the movie, though not nearly enough for a recommendation.

If you ask me, Django doesn't get nearly enough revenge here. He should have made like Clint Eastwood in Hang 'Em High and High Plains Drifter, by violently killing the lynch mob and burning the whole crummy town to the ground!