Django, Prepare a Coffin/Preparati la Bara!/Prepare a Coffin!/Viva Django/Django/Get the Coffin Ready/Django Get a Coffin Ready/Django Sees Red (1968) - Baldi and Terence Hill see red

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Gunfight from a coffin here on the gritty-cool poster for Ferdinando Baldi's Django, Prepare a Coffin

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Django's wife gets shot in a hold-up, where he was transporting gold. By freeing innocently sentenced by the gallows, the widowed Django then gathers a gang that is going to carry out vengeance towards the corrupt governor. - But also within the gang there is a rotten apple; SPOILER the Indian García (José Torres (Death Rides a Horse/Da Uomo a Uomo (1966)) steals and murders!

In the end, SPOILER Django gets his revenge in the film's best scene, in which he shoots the governor and his whole gang with a Gatlin gun, hidden in a coffin.
In Coffin, co-written by co-writer/director Ferdinando Baldi (Suicide Mission to Singapore/Goldsnake 'Anonima Killers' (1966)) and Franco Rossetti (Crazy Westerners/Little Rita nel West (1967)), nearly everyone is a crook, safe for, of course, Django (Terence Hill (My Name Is Nobody/Il Mio Nome è Nessuno (1973))), and perhaps it is especially this, that Django is deserted again and again, that makes the film a little long to get through. Slightly dull.
The film doesn't lack fistfights, and the restored copy is handsome to look at. Coffin is filmed in the classic Italian style of the period by cinematographer Enzo Barboni (Vengeance of the Vikings/Erik il Vichingo (1965)).

Terence Hill behind his machine gun in Ferdinando Baldi's Django, Prepare a Coffin

Watch an original trailer for the film here

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[The film follows Sergio Corbucci's classic Django (1966), which started a wave of reportedly over 30 unofficial sequels without the original's director or star Franco Nero. Baldi's film was, actually supposed to have Nero back as Django, but that didn't ultimately pan out. Coffin is also noteworthy for its title song You'd Better Smile by Nicola Di Bari, which was later sampled for Gnarls Barkley's worldwide hit Crazy (2005).]

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