Spaghetti Western Trivia ~ What’s in a name… “Django”

The 1966 film “Django” was such a huge hit in Europe that is spawned multiple clones. In fact almost all of Franco Nero’s films were renamed in Germany as Django such and such”, using the name Django to identify his character whether it was a western, crime film, adventure film or whatever.

An example of the use of the name Django with really no reference to the character was 1966’ “A Few Dollars for Django”. Not once in the film is Anthony Steffen referred to as Django, another case of overseas producers trying to cash in on a name made popular by other Spaghetti Westerns. This practice continued over and over with the character either never looking like Django with no machine gun in a coffin and no reference in the film to any of the characters being called Django. It was just an advertising ploy to draw viewers into seeing a film with the hopes of seeing a recreation of the original Django.