Bill il taciturno (1967)

Director:

Massimo Pupillo

Writers:

Lina Caterini (writer)
Paul Farjon (writer)
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Release Date:

10 June 1968 (Denmark)

Genre:

Romance | Western

Plot:

Django arrives in the town of Santa Anna at the behest of a man named Sanders who'd been trying to buy...

Plot Keywords:

Male Female Relationship | Dancehall Girl | Outlaw Gang | Maverick | Arms Deal

Cast

George Eastman	...	Django
Luciano Rossi	...	Dr. Thompson (as Edwin G. Ross)
Liana Orfei	...	Linda
Mimmo Maggio	...	El Santo
Peter Hellman
Spartaco Conversi	...	Miguel
Claudio Biava
Federico Boido	...	The Nervous One (as Rick Boyd)
Paul Maru	...	Steve
Antonio Toma	...	Pedro
Martial Boschero
Giovanna Lenzi
Ilona Drash
Enrico Manera
Federico Pietrabruna

Directed by
Massimo Pupillo		(as Max Hunter)

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Lina Caterini		writer
Paul Farjon		writer
Marcello Malvestito		writer
Renato Polselli		screenplay (as Leonide Preston)
Renato Polselli		story (as Leonide Preston)

Produced by
Alberto Puccini	....	producer

Original Music by
Berto Pisano

Cinematography by
Mario Parapetti

Film Editing by
Lina Caterini
Marcello Malvestito

Production Design by
Nedo Azzini

Set Decoration by
Nicola Tamburo

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Nello Vanin	....	assistant director

Camera and Electrical Department
Francesco Attenni	....	camera operator: second unit
Mario Sensi	....	camera operator

Music Department
Berto Pisano	....	conductor

Production Companies

• Avis Film

Also Known As:

Django Kills Softly (USA)
Django, le taciturne (France)

Runtime:

85 min

Country:

Italy | France

Language:

Italian

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Sound Mix:

Mono

Company:

Avis Film

Movie Connections:

Edited into Spaghetti Western Trailer Show (2007) (V)

A predictable collection of the usual ingredients

Once again we have the taciturn stranger who comes into an isolated frontier town and quickly becomes involved in various feuds which, apparently, can only be resolved through violence. There's a villain, of course -- actually several villains -- and then there's a pretty girl with whom the stranger dallies. There's nothing wrong with these ingredients but this "Django" movie strings them together so routinely and with so little regard for logical plot progression that the result can best be summarized as "forgettable." George Eastman, one of the better "spaghetti western" stars, makes an adequate leading man and though, as you might expect, he has two scenes in which he's subjected to savage beatings, he has no scene in which he takes off his shirt. (Eastman's bare-chested torture scene in "Belle Starr" is a classic!) The English-dubbed tape which is the basis for this review ran about 94 minutes but some jerky editing and a few gaps in the plot indicate that the original work may have been longer.