Django Kill... If You Live, Shoot! (Se sei vivo spara) |
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Italian film poster
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Directed by | Giulio Questi |
Produced by | Alessandro Jacovoni |
Screenplay by |
Franco Arcalli Giulio Questi Benedetto Benedetti |
Story by | María del Carmem Martínez Román |
Starring |
Tomas Milian Marilù Tolo Roberto Camardiel Piero Lulli Milo Quesada Paco Sanz Raymond Lovelock Patrizia Valturri |
Music by | Ivan Vandor |
Cinematography | Franco Delli Colli |
Edited by | Franco Arcalli |
Production
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GIA Società Cinematografica
Hispamer Films |
Distributed by | Trose Trading Film Titanus Distribuzione |
Release date
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3 May 1967 |
Running time
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117 minutes |
Country |
Italy Spain |
Language | Italian |
Django Kill... If You Live, Shoot! (Italian: Se sei vivo spara, lit. If You Live Shoot), also known as Oro Hondo and simply as Django Kill!, is a 1967 Italian Spaghetti Western horror film directed and co-written by Giulio Questi.
Despite the fact that it has "Django" in its title (outside of Italy), the movie has nothing to do with the Django movies. It is well known for the surrealistic violence and for the psychedelic editing of Franco "Kim" Arcalli. Phil Hardy defines it as "the most brutally violent spaghetti western ever made". Describing the film, Christopher Frayling says that "the violence was of an extraordinarily savage kind". Antonio Bruschini writes that "this film is the first western to offer a sample of truly horrendous scenes". Marco Giusti defines the film as the most violent and bizarre ever filmed in Italy.
One week after its release, an Italian Court confiscated Django Kill for its scabrous violence. The film was re-released seven days later, with 22 minutes removed. The film had censor problems in many other countries: in the United Kingdom, the BBFC removed about half an hour of film. Recently, several DVD editions restored the removed scenes, publishing the film in an uncut and uncensored version.
A pair of Indian medicine men encounter a wounded mixed-race bandit, the Stranger, crawling out from a mass grave; they nurse him back to health. During his recovery, he remembers an assault on a Wells Fargo covered wagon guarded by US Army troops. The Stranger, his partner Oaks, and their gang killed the troops, caught swimming in a river, and stole a strongbox containing bags of powdered gold from the wagon. However, Oaks and the white members of the gang betrayed the Stranger and the Mexican bandits, and forced them to dig their grave before gunning them down. In the present, the Indians inform the Stranger that they have smelted his share of the gold into bullets, and that they wish to be his companions so that he can tell them about the happy hunting ground.