Giù le mani... carogna! (Django Story)

Giù le mani carogna! (Django Story)
Giù le mani carogna! (Django Story)
	Poster
Directed by	Demofilo Fidani
Starring	Jack Betts; Gordon Mitchell
Release date	1971;
Language	Italian

Giù le mani... carogna! (Django Story) (or simply The Django Story or Giù le mani... carogna!)^[1] is a 1971 Italian Spaghetti western film directed by Demofilo Fidani (credited as Lucky Dickinson). The film is known in English as Down with Your Hands... You Scum!

Premise and production

Django enters a saloon and meets Wild Bill Hickok; and starts telling the story of various episodes of his life.

This premise allowed the film to re-use lengthy parts of footage from earlier films by Fidani, ...e vennero in quattro per uccidere Sartana! (1969), Quel maledetto giorno d'inverno... Django e Sartana... all'ultimo sangue!'' (1970), Arrivano Django e Sartana... è la fine (1970).^[2]

Cast

Jack Betts (credited as Hunt Powers)^[2] as Django
Gordon Mitchell as Buck/Butch Bradley^[2]
Dino Strano (as Dean Stratford)^[2] as Dea; Bobby O'Neill; El Zorro
Jerry Ross as Bill Hickok^[2]

Reception

An Italian review characterized the film as "A Western film directed in the most terrible way".^[1] A retrospective review, commenting on the poor quality of the film but also the financial limitations of its production, asks, "The cheapest Spaghetti ever made?"^[3]

References

^ ^a ^b Giù le mani... Carogna (in Italian), archived from the original on 2023-04-28, retrieved 2023-04-28
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "Giù le mani... Carogna - The Spaghetti Western Database". www.spaghetti-western.net. Archived from the original on 2023-04-28. Retrieved 2023-04-28.
^ Franklin, Mark (April 2, 2019). "The Django Story (1971)". Archived from the original on April 28, 2023. Retrieved April 28, 2023.