The Gatling Gun (1971) - The Indian Wars of the West revisited in deficient flick

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Grim sexual brutalization and violent meanness is promised on this sparse poster for Robert Gordon's The Gatling Gun

During the Indian Wars of the 19th century, cowboys and Indians combat each other, until the American whites invent the Gatling Gun, a rolling machine gun that they use to mow down the natives.

The Gatling Gun is written by Joseph Van Winkle (Dark Places (1974)) and Mark Hanna (Raymie (1960)) and directed by Robert Gordon (Blind Spot (1947)).
There isn't much story to this war western, which also technically and in other ways lacks fundamental qualities, (the Apache Indians for some reason speak Spanish in it, for instance.) Interminable war scenes only slightly remedy these deficiencies. For anyone not prone to westerns, The Gatling Gun is likely to be intolerable to watch.

Listen to a grand piece of the film's score here

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[The Gatling Gun was released in May (USA) and runs 93 minutes. Shooting took place in New Mexico and California from April - May 1969. Little is known of the film's production and limited release. It was Gordon's last feature; he returned only with The American People in World War II (1973, documentary short). 292 IMDb users have given The Gatling Gun a 5.0/10 average rating.]

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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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