A Mexican outlaw known as "The Stranger" is part of a band of thieves that steal a cargo of gold from a stagecoach. However, the Americans in the band betray him, and shoot all the Mexicans. The Stranger is not completely dead though, and crawls his way out of his shallow grave, continuing his pursuit of the gold, and exacting a bloody vengeance.
Direction
Questi's operatic sadism — every frame drips with Catholic guilt.
Cinematography
Day-glo nightmare colors that make the desert look diseased.
Practical Effects
The gold-in-the-chest scene — you'll never unsee it.
Director
Giulio Questi
Tomas Milian
The Stranger
Marilù Tolo
Flory
Piero Lulli
Oaks
Milo Quesada
Bill Templer
Sancho Gracia
Willy (as Félix Sancho Gracia)
Mirella Pamphili
Woman in Town (as Mirella Panfili)
Ray Lovelock
Evan Templer (as Raymond Lovelock)
Roberto Camardiel
Sorrow
Patrizia Valturri
Elizabeth Hagerman
Calogero Azzaretto
Zorro Henchman (uncredited)
Lars Bloch
Oaks Gang Member (uncredited)
Frank Braña
Templer Henchman (uncredited)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Questi was a communist partisan fighter; this is his treatise on capitalism as cannibalism disguised as a western.
The 'Django' title was slapped on by producers for box office — Milian's character is never named.
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