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Franco Nero stars as a coffin-dragging vigilante who fights his way out between a gang of Mexican bandits and a militia of white supremacists in Django, one of the most famous of the spaghetti westerns. While director Sergio Corbucci certainly tries to emulate the style of Sergio Leone, Django is nonetheless a tight, well-paced, grittily entertaining piece of B-cinema. Franco Nero carries the movie remarkably well — the guy’s got sex appeal and stoic magnetism, and the camera loves his face. Highlights include Django’s relationship with a whore (Loredana Nusciak) whose been exiled for sleeping with Mexicans, and a notorious scene where a man is fed his own ear. But the most memorable scene is undoubtedly when Django finally reveals what’s inside his mysterious coffin. While part of the gitchy appeal of spaghetti westerns is bad dubbing, I recommend watching Django with the Italian track, which feature’s Franco Nero’s own voice.