Giù le mani... carogna! (Django Story)
{{Short description|1970 film by Demofilo Fidani}}
{{Infobox film
| name = Giù le mani carogna! (Django Story)
| image = Giù le mani carogna! (Django Story).jpg
| caption = Poster
| director = Demofilo Fidani
| starring = Jack Betts
Gordon Mitchell
| released = {{Film date|1971}}
| language = Italian
}}
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Giù le mani... carogna! (Django Story) (or simply The Django Story or Giù le mani... carogna!){{Citation |title=Giù le mani... Carogna |url=https://www.cinematografo.it/film/giu-le-mani-carogna-k4v3wcss |access-date=2023-04-28 |language=it |archive-date=2023-04-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230428002740/https://www.cinematografo.it/film/giu-le-mani-carogna-k4v3wcss |url-status=live }} is a 1971 Italian Spaghetti western film directed by Demofilo Fidani (credited as Lucky Dickinson). The film is known in English as Down with Your Hands... You Scum!
Premise and production
Django enters a saloon and meets Wild Bill Hickok; and starts telling the story of various episodes of his life.
This premise allowed the film to re-use lengthy parts of footage from earlier films by Fidani, ...e vennero in quattro per uccidere Sartana! (1969), Quel maledetto giorno d'inverno... Django e Sartana... all'ultimo sangue!'' (1970), Arrivano Django e Sartana... è la fine (1970).{{Cite web |title=Giù le mani... Carogna - The Spaghetti Western Database |url=https://www.spaghetti-western.net/index.php/Gi%C3%B9_le_mani..._Carogna |access-date=2023-04-28 |website=www.spaghetti-western.net |archive-date=2023-04-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230428002748/https://www.spaghetti-western.net/index.php/Gi%C3%B9_le_mani..._Carogna |url-status=live }}
Cast
- Jack Betts (credited as Hunt Powers) as Django
- Gordon Mitchell as Buck/Butch Bradley
- Dino Strano (as Dean Stratford) as Dea; Bobby O'Neill; El Zorro
- Jerry Ross as Bill Hickok
Reception
An Italian review characterized the film as "A Western film directed in the most terrible way". A retrospective review, commenting on the poor quality of the film but also the financial limitations of its production, asks, "The cheapest Spaghetti ever made?"{{Cite web |last=Franklin |first=Mark |date=April 2, 2019 |title=The Django Story (1971) |url=https://onceuponatimeinawestern.com/the-django-story-1971/ |access-date=April 28, 2023 |archive-date=April 28, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230428065848/https://onceuponatimeinawestern.com/the-django-story-1971/ |url-status=live }}
References
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External links
- {{IMDb title|0065784}}
Category:1970s Italian-language films
Category:Films directed by Demofilo Fidani
Category:Spaghetti Western films
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