The original Django (1966) is a spaghetti western that obviously Tarantino paid tribute in Django Unchained taking the name, the theme song and even having original Django Franco Nero pop up in a cameo. The original Django film is itself a riff (or cash-in copycat) on A Fistful Of Dollars in that it’s based on Yojimbo, and has a wandering loner who gets between two gangs in a small town (here, the Mexicans and the KKK). There’s a weird, gothic tone to everything, right from the beginning with our lead dragging a coffin behind him, the muddy ghost town he travels to, the sick bits of violence here and there, and the great final shot in a graveyard. Directed by Sergio Corbucci, this was pretty entertaining, mainly due to Nero’s ruggedness and that unbeatable theme tune (composed by Luis Bacalov and sung by Rocky Roberts).
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