A Man Called Django! (1971)

Directed by Edoardo Mulargia
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
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(DVD, Timeless Media Group)

One of the countless Django films that followed in the wake of the 1966 original, here blue-eyed Italian Anthony Steffen does a fairly good job as Franco Nero's character. After his wife is brutally murdered in the opening scene, we join him a year later hunting down the members of the gang responsible in a dusty western town on the Mexican border. A friendly, if dumb, saloon owner leads him to someone who knows the names of the men he is seeking. The man agrees to help if he can have all of the loot from their lucrative gun trading business. They become uneasy friends and track down the killers one by one. The usual shootouts and fistfights follow, although Django comes up with some clever tricks that prevent them from becoming too cliche.