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After the Franco Nero film "Django" appeared, a lot of unscrupulous movie folks began releasing movie after movie with the name Django in the title--but they had little to do with this original film. "He Who Shoots First" (also known as "Django Shoots First") is one of these faux Django films. Now I am not sure if the film was meant to be a knockoff or if, perhaps, the folks doing the dubbing just decided on their own to make it a Django film. But, at least the leading man, Dutchman Glenn Saxson looks a bit like Nero.The film starts with Django going to see his father and finding him dead--having just been shot down by a bounty hunter. Not wanting to pass up a good opportunity, Django shoots the bounty hunter and brings his dad's corpse to town to claim the reward!! Only later does he learn that perhaps his father was NOT a criminal but was up on trumped up charges by folks intend on stealing his half interest in a local gambling hall. So, for most of the rest of the film, Django needs to fight the local scum who are trying to kill him and then claim what is rightfully his. Aside from the film having the audacity of having Django claim the bounty on his own dad(!!), I also really liked the ending as well as the music. The soundtrack was a good bit better than the average Italian western. But, apart from these things, the film had little to offer other than folks getting punched and shot. Not especially remarkable but a decent time-passer.FYI--At one point, one of the folks says "A man can't testify against his wife" but in American law this isn't exactly true. A man cannot be FORCED to testify against his wife. But, if he wants to help the prosecution by testifying against her he is surely welcome to do so.

Although no authority in the field, I've seen enough Italian westerns to know that they're ALWAYS worth peeping if only for A) the music, B) the women and C) the violence which is more gritty and relentless than in westerns produced in any other country. The legendary work of Sergio Leone and Sergio Corbucci naturally state this theory the most, but even all the obscure and low-budget genre efforts coming from this country are worth tracking down. Particularly the numberless "Django" rip-offs/unofficial sequels are immensely entertaining, like for example this exciting & surprisingly humorous adventure directed by Alberto De Martino. Glenn Saxson (a Dutch guy) takes over the title role of cult icon Franco Nero and, although not half as charismatic as Nero, he does a fairly adequate job as the indefeasible gunslinger hero who – like the title implies – always shoots first and never ever misses his target. The screenplay of this film is compelling and actually rather clever, and there isn't a single dull moment throughout the entire playtime. We meet Django as he recovers his father's dead body from a bounty hunter. Since there was the huge reward of $5.000 on his head, Django decides to collect the money himself instead of respectfully burying his father in a last resting place. Shortly after his arrival in town, however, he learns that his father wasn't a criminal at all, but a businessman framed by his former partner & bank owner Kluster. With the help of a few friends he met in the saloon, Django stays to avenge his father and claim his rightful inheritance which is about 50% of the entire town. You may anticipate all the regular ingredients of Spaghetti Westerns, like outrageous bar fights, grisly vendettas and violent ambushes, but there's also room for original sub plots in this film! One of Django's accomplices, for example, hides a mysterious secret that only gets revealed late in the film and then neatly fits in with the main storyline. Also, the film's whole climax (and particularly the comical epilogue) is very spectacular and creative. Bruno Nicolai's musical score is phenomenal as usual and both Ida Galli & Erica Blanc provide the required female beauty. "Django Shoots First" is a minor must-see for die-hard fans of this sadly extinct Italian genre.

This Spaghetti Western isn't as bad as it's been described in "Stracult", a compilation of essays on Italian B-movies that I purchased at the 2004 Venice Film Festival, but it's certainly not anything special either! Glenn Saxson is a cheerful lead in the Errol Flynn vein, which is incongruous for the genre - at least in this early phase, before comedy set in with the Terence Hill/Bud Spencer films!Still, the revenge/control-of-a-Western-town plot is fairly engaging - though it has nothing whatsoever to do with the original DJANGO (1966; whose 2-Disc LE Set via Blue Underground, incidentally, I should be receiving soon) - and even includes some nice, original touches: Django taking his outlaw father's corpse (after dispatching the bounty hunter who murdered him) to town to pick up the reward money for himself; a "Three Musketeers"-like subplot involving a beautiful but wicked woman (Evelyn Stewart) and her former husband, friend of the hero, who warns him against her; an amusing double-twist at the end in which, first, heroine Erika Blanc outwits a fleeing (i.e. uncommitted) Django, thus making sure that he goes back to her - followed by a reprisal of the film's opening sequence with the arrival of a new gunslinger in town, this time to challenge Django's own authority! The climax, set inside a graveyard, is also effective - as is Bruno Nicolai's bouncy score.Having said that, the film is too slowly-paced and, even at a little over 90 minutes, it feels protracted - particularly the silly bar-room brawl towards the end!

Sleepinducing western stars an incredibly wooden Glenn Saxson as title character, although the Django name is merely hinted at. Standard plot and unexciting shootouts compete with indifferent acting and awful music score. If it hadn´t been shown in a letterboxed version with the original Italian soundtrack, I probably wouldn´t have bothered. Neither should you.*½