Good story, Not enough for a whole film

good back-story, and good acting

best movie i've ever seen.

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

The movie is entitled "A Long Line of Crosses" and I suggest watching it in Italian with subtitles to appreciate what it was supposed to be like. American release titles are often 100% marketing in the genre, and have NOTHING to do with the movie or the people that made it. This has to be the most extreme example. I don't think it counts as a spoiler to note that a) There is no Django in this, and b) there is no hanging. There's no long line of crosses for that matter, but it's an apt title.For me, there are four major classes in the genre. First, those that are great movies outside the genre, second, those that are not as good as that but better than the average example, those that are fair to middling and those that are below par. For me, this was a solid example of the second class.It's slightly over the top in terms of self-consciousness of the genre, but that's OK for lovers of Spaghetti Westerns. Yeah, we can see The Preacher is obviously an imitation of Klaus Kinski in The Great Silence and lots of other over the top flourishes, but they never detract from the flow. I enjoyed it.Many of the genre were social commentaries on American's place and actions in the world and issues of concern to progressives in the 1960s. This one does that solidly, but gets so much right about US/Mexico border issues that it is still relevant as I write this in 2016. I would have given this 7/10, but that raises it a point in my estimation.Meal pairing suggestion: Camarones a la Diabola with rice and refried beans and flour tortillas.

Despite what my summary line reads, I want to state that I didn't hate this spaghetti western. However, I must confess that when the movie reached the end, I was kind of relieved that I didn't have to sit through any more. Things start of promising for the movie - it manages to build a bleak and violent atmosphere, there are some exciting action sequences, and the movie doesn't get to a point where it can be called boring. But it gets dangerously close to being boring. The plot is almost ridiculously drawn out to near the breaking point, with lots of scenes that serve no real purpose. Maybe sensing this, the director does try to spice some scenes up with some unconventional direction and editing, but for the most part it makes the scenes confusing. And the movie has the gall to rip off "The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly" in its climatic sequence. This is far from the worst spaghetti western I've seen, but I would only recommend it to spaghetti western aficionados who are also fans of Anthony Steffen and/or William Berger.

Bounty hunter Anthony Steffen teams up with shifty, bible-toting rival William Berger, who dresses like a preacher and carries a shotgun with seven barrels, in order to take on a ruthless gang of human smugglers working the Mexican border.An entertaining, though somewhat standard-issue Italian western, this is well-made and fairly atmospheric, with a neat final gun-down. Steffen and especially Berger are pretty cool too, as is big Mario Brega (of Leone's Dollars trilogy among other films) finally getting to play one of the good guys!One interesting aspect of the film is the depiction of illegal immigration, the "coyotes", and their primarily well-to-do white enablers as a public nuisances that help in keeping poor Mexicans down. This is a point of view you'll never see in the scared, hypocritical film world of today.

I have seen this as No Room to Die which is probably a better title than Noose for Django. It's an excellent letter boxed print but I think the dubbing might be not an exact translation. The plot is about the evil Mr Fargo who is using his gang of wanted men to smuggle illegal workers from Mexico into the USA. For some reason he has them all killed (in one sequence he sends two wagon loads of workers over a cliff down to the river to die) and I'm really not sure of why he does this except to just not get caught smuggling. The bounty hunter Johnny Brandon (I think he's called Django just to sell tickets)is out killing Fargo's men for the reward(s). There is a second bounty hunter Everitt Murdock (IMDB says Sartana but hes called Preacherman because of his black preacher outfit, there is a Santana in the movie but it's not this guy)who carries a 7 barrel shotgun that almost seams like an automatic (where all the shells come from you can only guess). The plot gets complicated as the 2 bounty hunters form a shaky alliance to cash in on the rewards. Is a double cross in the works? The women are pretty but don't have very much to do and there are no nude scenes or love scenes. At the end it all comes down to $40000 which Brandon gives to the woman and says "You know what to do with it" Brandon also has a Bud Spencer imitator who basically throws guys around a lot. The music goes: dum dum dum DUM whenever someone evil gives that stare that he's going to shoot or throw a knife. There's plenty of violence and action but this isn't Django.