Django, Prepare a Coffin
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| Directed by | Ferdinando Baldi |
| Produced by | Manolo Bolognini |
| Screenplay by |
Franco Rossetti Ferdinando Baldi |
| Story by | Franco Rossetti |
| Starring |
Terence Hill Horst Frank George Eastman Pinuccio Ardia Lee Burton José Torrès |
| Music by |
Gianfranco Reverberi Giampiero Reverberi |
| Cinematography | Enzo Barboni |
| Edited by | Eugenio Alabiso |
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B.R.C. Produzione S.r.l.
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| Distributed by | Titanus Distribuzione |
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Running time
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92 Minutes |
| Country | Italy |
| Language | Italian |
Django, Prepare a Coffin (Italian: Preparati la bara!, “Prepare the Coffin!”), alternatively titled Viva Django and (chiefly in German) Django und die Bande der Gehenkten, or Django And The Gang Of The Hanged, is a 1968 Italian Spaghetti Western film directed by Ferdinando Baldi. The film stars Terence Hill in the title role, which was previously played by Franco Nero in Sergio Corbucci's original 1966 Django. Django, Prepare a Coffin is unique among the plethora of films which capitalized on Corbucci's hit in that it is not only a semi-official, legitimate follow-up, but was also originally meant to star Franco Nero.
A piece from the film's score, "Last Man Standing," was sampled in the song "Crazy" by American soul duo Gnarls Barkley. The film's title song, "You'd Better Smile," is performed by Nicola Di Bari.
It was shown as part of a retrospective on Spaghetti Western at the 64th Venice International Film Festival.
Django, Prepare a Coffin is presented as a loose prequel to Corbucci's film, but without his (or original Django Franco Nero's) collaboration. The film deals with events alluded to in Corbbuci's film, such as the murder of Django's wife (however; the circumstances of her murder differ from those inferred in the original Django). Terence Hill stars as a younger incarnation of Django, dressed in Nero's distinctive outfit (minus some accessories which Nero's chronologically older incarnation brandishes). In the beginning of Django, Prepare a Coffin, Hill's younger Django works as an armed courier, delivering gold between depositories. Later, after the murder of his wife, he works as a hangman.
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