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The first confusing thing about this movie is it's title. It's clearly mark on the title card, 'Pochi dollari per Django', but in the America version, it was reprinted as 'Some Dollars for Django' and in others as 'Django, a bullet for you". It's just a Django picture, a rip-off of Sierre Leone's Clint Eastwood type 'Man with no name' character returns to a Spagnetti Western type town named Mile City when a band of crooks lead by Jim Norton (Frank Wolff) rob a bank. A bounty hunter named Regan (Anthony Steffen) AKA Django is hired to capture them. Regan has no cost, but to pose as the sheriff to get close to the gang, so he can retrieve the large sum of cash. The silent gunslinger works effective: even before the audience see the opening credits, action comes to play. I wouldn't mind it, but I would rather see a big epic opening music number then cutting to the action so the audience can at less get ready for it. It seem rushed. To collect some evidence and capture the ring leader, he wents to see Trevor, the twin-brother of Jim Norton, who is reportedly murdered in the meantime, lives as a farmer. Django is leery and supposes that peaceful Trevor in fact is Jim Norton. However, he is in the grip of an escalating conflict between the farmers, who want to erect barbed wire fences around their land, and the ranchers lead by Bransbury (Alfonso Rojas), whose villain credentials are cemented by the way in which he regularly twists the ends of his moustache in a caddish fashion in a cartoony pose, who want the right for their cattle to roam freely. The farmers suffering from his unpleasant habit of burning down their property, have formed a resistance group, led by Trevor . Trevor, despite appearances, believes in peace and seems to be an essentially good man; only willing to fight when pushed into having no options. The plot about the perplexities around the two Nortons, love and sheriff's honor is overloaded, especially there's no tension around. There is barely any slow parts in the film, it's full of action from beginning to end. Norton daughter Sally (Gloria Osuna) plays his love interest that suppose warms up Regan. His true metamorphosis from a bounty hunter to a straight sheriff to me seems quite unbelievable with no character development between the action scenes. He killed people left and right without asking. There just way too much going on in this story, and I would rather have them stick to one. The scenes are somewhat witty and action pack full. Still, the one shot kills are kinda out cheesy and unlimited bullets for a six barrel hand gun get annoying for a way. The English dub is laughable, but watchable. Carlo Savina music is just a step away from getting mistaken from Ennio Morricone. Carlos Savina theme A Deadly Morning or there will come a morning fits the film, but it comes off more than a Dollar Series knock off. Vocals by Don Powell is just awesome. This movie (Some dollars for Django) is a classic one. Music by Carlo Savina a much underrated composer. I would recommend this movie to all Spaghetti Western fans

Bounty killer Regan has been employed by a mining company to track down the bandits responsible for the robbery of a large sum of money. He tracks the gang leader Norton to a small town in Montana but gets mistaken for the new sheriff. Regan soon finds that Norton is rallying farmers against cattlemen in a dispute over land and also becomes embroiled in the range war himself.

This Hollywood-esque Anthony Steffen vehicle was marketed as a Django spin off, although like the rest of it's kind has nothing to do with Corbucci's character or movie. A satisfying, but at times boring time passer, Some Dollars For Django bears all the hallmarks of an early spaghetti western. It is nothing more than an American mimic(range wars, characters straight out of Rawhide, tough guys doing what is righteous)with no brutality and the absence of immoral overtones. Despite the 85 minute running time the movie did drag quite a bit, although when the action scenes arrive they are pretty awesome. The ranch raids and climatic shootout were fantastic with a handful of fine stunts(running and jumping between rocks and somersaulting out of wagons/over balconies) and a decent body count. It seems to me that some lucky cowboys/outlaws were blessed with super-pistols for relentless firepower as the shooting is constant and not once does anybody need to reload, personally I could listen to the Italian gunshots all day. The dubbing and dialogue were pretty hilarious, at times atrocious and the rousing title song A Deadly Moring was brilliant.

An above average pasta saga which was beneficial in the greatest sub genre in the world getting warmed up. 7/10

Enzo G. Castellari probably deserves more credit for whatever artistry went into "A Few Dollars for Django" (1966) than León Klimovsky. Happily, scenarists Manuel Sebares and Tito Carpi shared some richly deserved credit for both the story and the screenplay. Briefly, Sebares penned several Spaghettis, among them "Hour of Death," "The Relentless Four," "Sharp Shooting Twin Sisters," "Two Thousand Dollars for Coyote," and "If You Shoot... You Live!" Meantime, the prolific Carpi racked up some equally impressive credits, including "Any Gun Can Play," "Return of Django," "For One Thousand Dollars Per Day," "Django Shoots First," "Payment in Blood," and "Kill Them All and Come Back Alone." Capri scripted "I Am Sartana, Your Angel of Death" and "Sartana's Here... Trade Your Pistol for a Coffin," too. Later, Carpi would collaborate as a writer with Castellari when the latter took the helm as director himself. Not only did this pair create some enjoyable westerns, but also they worked together with each other on films in every genre ranging from gangster thrillers to apocalyptic epics.

Alas, it should come as no surprise "A Few Dollars for Django" qualified as an above-average horse opera. Indeed, my favorite scene, though I have no idea who of the two concocted it, is the opening showdown. Our heroic protagonist, Regan (Antony Steffen of "Ten Killers from Afar") rides up to a cantina dressed like a peasant and kills some men before he calls out a gunslinger from the cantina and challenges him to show himself. When nothing happens and nobody emerges from the cantina, Regan fires up the fuse on a stick of dynamite and hurls it into the enclosure. Predictably, the barkeeper and Freeman (Joaquín Parra of "Compañeros") scramble for cover. Desperate to escape, the Freeman lurches outside the cantina, and Regan guns him down. Our bounty hunter enters the cantina and retrieves the dynamite as the fuse is about to burn down to the explosive charge. Peeling back the brown paper insheathing it, the hero fires up a cigarillo oblivious to his fate. Some years later in "Two Mules for Sister Sara," Clint Eastwood would confront a couple of saddle bums trying to rape an apparent nun, and surprise them with a stick of dynamite. Except the Eastwood character would gun down those dastards in time to stomp the burning fuse only seconds before it would explode the dynamite. Good movies should grab your attention, and this opening scene in "A Few Dollars For Django" amounts to an attention grabber!

Meantime, the Sebares & Carpi story bristles with enough depth to hold your interest. No, "A Few Dollars for Django" isn't a throwaway Spaghetti western, except for its 'in name only' title. Evidently, Sergio Corbucci's original "Django" (1966) proved so popular that scores of Spaghettis appropriated "Django" for use in their titles. Nevertheless, despite the "Django's" name in the title, our protagonist is When the banker dispatches Regan to Montana to contact the brother of notorious outlaw Jim Norton, he warns him that bounty hunters aren't welcome there. Indeed, in Montana, they hang bounty hunters. Happily, fate solves this problem for our swift-shooting hero. No sooner has he arrived in Montana than he comes upon the body of a dead lawman with a badge pinned prominently to his vest. Although we don't see him give the fallen sheriff a decent burial, when Regan shows up in Mile City, he has the badge pinned on him. Regan rescues a deputy when he rides into town and thwarts an effort by the cattlemen to hang a farmer. If you're a western movie addict, this plot about a gunfighter impersonating a lawman is as old as the Wayne Morris B-movie, director Lewis D. Collins' "Two Guns and A Badge," is perhaps one of the better oaters about a man posing as a lawman. (As it turns out, Regan has ridden into a land where the cattlemen and the farmers are locked into a life & death feud over real estate. Jim Norton's twin-brother Trevor Norton (Frank Wolff of "A Stranger in Town"), has a grown-up daughter and a farm. Indeed, Trevor turns out to be Jim, but we don't discover the actual truth about him until later when he dies in the end. The gunfights are staged with a modicum of style and the Spanish scenery is scenic enough. Mile City looks sort of like the town named White Rocks from Sergio Leone's "For A Few Dollars More." The reference to this Clint Eastwood shoot'em up demonstrates how some Spaghetti westerns imitated other Spaghettis.