One Damned Day at Dawn... Django Meets Sartana!

1970
4.9| 1h37m| en
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The small desert town of Black City is held in a reign of terror by a nasty gang of criminals lead by the ruthless Bud Willer. Earnest, but inexperienced Sheriff Jack Ronson arrives in town to establish law and order. Mysterious bounty hunter Django helps Ronson out.

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Spidersecu Don't Believe the Hype
RipDelight This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.
Dirtylogy It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.
Payno I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.
Sam Panico The spaghetti western heroes Django, Trinity, Sabata, Ringo and Sartana all fell victim to the strange copyright laws of Italy, where sequels to films just happen (such as how Bruno Mattei's Cruel Jaws was also shown as Jaws 5: Cruel Jaws). There are several non-cannon Sartana films, including Sartana Does Not Forgive, Shadow of Sartana... Shadow of your Death, Sartana in the Valley of Death, Trinity and Sartana... Those Dirty S.O.B.s and Alleluja & Sartana Are Sons... Sons of God. But today, we're here to discuss the fake Sartana crossing over with the fake Django. Confused yet?Sheriff Ronson (Fabio Testi, who lived with Ursula Andress and had a son with Edwige Fenech, so I regard him with some measure of respect and jealousy) is a newcomer to Black City. He learns that Willer, Sanchez and their men are the law in town. But now Django (Hunt Powers, who is now known as Jack Betts,. He started his career in spaghetti westerns before becoming an American character actor) is here, ready to settle an old score with the bad guys.So where's Sartana? Well, at the end of the movie, the Ronson tells Django that around some parts, that's what they call him. No, no they don't. I know Sartana, sir. I have watched his movies. And you are no Sartana.This film is directed by Demofilo Fidani, who some call the "Ed Wood of spaghetti westerns" as he often used more well-known character names in his films and has absolutely no regard for continuity. He directed mostly westerns, although he did create a giallo in 1972, A.A.A. Masseuse, Good-Looking, Offers Her Services.There's one good gunfight and not much else happens, to be honest. If you're watching this and are excited to see inventive weapons and a weird sense of humor - like the other Sartana films - you are bound to find this entry lacking.
Benedito Dias Rodrigues This kind of western are too much accepted in Brazil,mainly because around the late sixties had a invasion from this italian productions in ours theatres over the cheapest price allowed for fit in brazilian pockets,another important thing to ad is about a violence available in those pictures a bit more than american productions,in this one a usual movie about endless Django against contless Sartana,nothing new just the same on bad image of course!!Resume:First watch: 2017 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD / Rating: 4
Red-Barracuda Django and Sartana team up to fight back against two gangs of outlaws who are terrorising a lawless town.The unique angle of this Italian western is in combining both the Django and Sartana characters together, both of whom had their own series of spaghetti westerns. Although it does have to be said that this distinctive aspect has to be set against the fact that both protagonists only resemble these characters in name and act decidedly differently than usual. Truthfully, it seems obvious that these names were only applied to the characters as an after-thought. Quite honestly, this is a very clichéd and derivative affair with stock characters such as an enigmatic bounty hunter and amoral villains aplenty. But despite all this, I found it overall to be slightly better than average for this kind of thing. It didn't descend into tedium too often and its sparse running time seemed like good manners on the part of the film-makers. So, while any seasoned fan of this kind of thing is highly unlikely to find anything new here, I still think it entertains more effectively than many others in the sub-genre.
FightingWesterner Fabio Testi takes a job as the new sheriff in a lawless town besieged by two ruthless gangs. Meanwhile, tough mystery man Hunt Powers also arrives to take care of some unfinished business. Considering the title of the film, you can pretty much guess who these two strangers turn out to be!A derivative, so-so spaghetti western, One Damned Day At Dawn...Django Meets Sartana! has good atmosphere, production values, and two decent actors in the title roles, just not a very good script.As in all three films I've seen from director Miles Deem, it's just too rushed and sloppy for it's own good, though not as bad as the other two.I would recommend this only for people who have already seen everything else.