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For 10.000 dollars , Django , a bounty hunter (Gary Hudson or Gianni Garco , usual player of Sartana character , another famous hero of S.W.) swears to chase Manuel (Claudio Camaso who subsequently committed suicide) who has kidnapped the daughter (Adriana Ambesi) of a baron land . As Django along with his faithful friend , a likable photographer named Fidelio looking for evil Manuel . But his lover (a saloon-girl played by Loredana Nusciak) is killed and Django seeks vengeance . Meanwhile , Djanjo is double-crossed and the daughter who suffers Stockholm syndrome falls in love with Manuel .

Acceptable twilight Spaghetti Western with interesting dialogue by the usual writer Ernesto Gastaldi , splendid cinematography by Zanni and memorable musical score by Nora Orlandi . It is a typical Spaghetti Western in which blends the common scenarios , as invincible and tough antiheroes , complex as well as fast showdowns with numerous casualties , impulsive and quick zooms , and musical score with Morricone influence . The picture has a certain remembrance to ¨For a fistful dollars more¨ (Sergio Leone) regarding the avenging theme and including Manuel character who bears remarkable resemblance to Indio role (Gian Maria Volonte) ; furthermore , Claudio Camaso was brother of Volonte and holding physical likeness and similar playing . Besides , good set decoration filmed in Elios studios and , of course , Almeria (Spain) . It also bears remarkable resemblance to ¨Django¨ (Sergio Corbucci) regarding 'the Saloon girl character' , equally interpreted by Loredana Nusciak . The highlights of the movie result to be the followings : when the hero wakes up from the beach along with a corpse , Django living in a photography back room studio decorated against posters captioning ¨Wanted : Dead or alive¨ , the phantom village full of dust and wind and Django buried until neck , among others . ¨Ten thousand dollars blood money¨ was shot at the same time to ¨For one hundred thousand dollars per killing (by Giovanni Fago)¨ with similar artist and technician team and also starred by Gianni Garco , Claudio Camaso and Fernando Sancho . The motion picture finely produced by Mino Loy , Luciano and Sergio Martino brothers was well directed by Romolo Guerrieri who also made other Pasta Westerns . Romolo is a good craftsman who has directed all type of genres such as post-nuke Sci-fi as ¨ The last warrior¨ , Italian crime or Poliziottesco as "Young, Violent, Dangerous" , ¨City under siege¨ , "Ring of Death" and westerns as ¨Johnny Yuma¨ and ¨Seven guns for Timothy¨ again with Fernando Sancho . Rating : Better than average Spaghetti Western .

Unprincipled bounty hunter Gianni Garko keeps tabs on an outlaw, hoping to cash in when his bounty finally reaches ten-thousand dollars. Unfortunately, he tips his hand and is almost killed, leading to an odd alliance between the two men and the inevitable massacre.

Another pseudo-Django sequel, 10,000 Dollars For A Massacre is derivative, but fairly entertaining, as long as you don't stop and think about it too long.

Character's motivations and decision making are often times quite strange. For instance, why does the bandit put so much trust in Garko and get angry at the attempt made on his life, especially after the bounty hunter tells him, in no uncertain terms, of his intention to cash in on the outlaw's bounty?

Still, it's fast-paced and violent enough, with a good finale. The villain looks a lot like Gian Maria Volante in A Fistful Of Dollars and For A Few Dollars More and along with Garko, wears a lot of eyeliner too.

Fearless bounty hunter Django accepts an offer from a wealthy landowner to kill a ruthless bandit named Manuel Vasquez, who is responsible for kidnapping the latter's daughter. After Django catches up with Manuel, a respect develops between the two men and Django agrees to aid the bandit in the robbery of a gold shipment. However, after Manuel betrays Django and murders his girlfriend during the robbery, the guilt ridden bounty hunter swears retribution...

As you can tell from the synopsis, this is another unofficial Django spin-off churned out in the wake of Corbucci's masterpiece. This time it is Romolo Guerrieri who tries his hand at the revenge filled saga. An overall satisfying but lesser spaghetti western with one hell of a title(translating in English as "10,000 Dollars For A Massacre"). Gianni Garko(billed here as Gary Hudson)is rather compelling in his portray of Django, just over a year before he would fill the boots of the enigmatic Sartana. Claudio Camaso made for a competent adversary in Manuel Vasquez but it was Fernando Sancho doing his thing as the bandit leader who really made the movie watchable. His fiery overacting and stratospheric charisma always makes me laugh. Nora Orlandi's moody score is probably the best non-Morricone composition I've ever heard and adds a pinch of Gothic to the already dramatic imagery. The action sequences lacked the necessary suspense that one expects from a spaghetti western. They were sparse and abrupt in execution but still entertaining at the very least. However, the climatic showdown in the windy streets of a ghost town at twilight saved the film from a dour fate. It was in this scene that I could finally experience the blistering force of Django's angst. I concede that this sequence was a little drawn out but it was definitely among the most memorable spaghetti western face-offs complete with the textbook OTT deaths. The dim lighting is what makes this sequence beautiful and the rest of the movie is full of interesting camera techniques. The aforementioned showdown builds to a fine ending as the soundtrack's chilling vocals roar in the background. The script was okay. The romantic subplot involving Django and his girlfriend didn't really make me feel any stronger about the characters, instead it became mushy. Flashbacks would have been a better approach.

An atmospheric but tepid affair, Guerrieri's pastafest will never make my top 20. However, it is gorgeously melodramatic and dreamlike, which both work in the film's favour. 6/10.

One of the many unofficial sequels of Django, this movie had the working title 7 dollari su Django (7 Dollars on Django) and is also known as Ten Thousand Dollars for a Massacre and Guns of Violence.

Django (listed as Gary Hudson, but come on, we all know Gianni Garko when we see him) is a bounty hunter -- he's more like a bounty killer, as he never brings back anyone alive -- who is watching Manuel Vasquez (Claudio Camaso) as he goes on a crime spree, knowing the more he kills, the more he'll be worth. Once there's a price of $10,000 on his head, that's when Django will take care of business.

That price is reached when Vasquez kidnaps the daughter of Mendoza (Frank Little), a rancher. Dolores Mendoza (Adriana Ambesi, who often went by Audrey Amber and who is also in Secret Agent Super Dragon, Malenka and The Bible: In the Beginning...) is a young woman beloved by her older father, so he doubles the reward.

Django was ready to quit killing for money and wanted to settle down with Mijanou (Loredana Nusciak, The Tiffany Memorandum, Something Creeping in The Dark). But the lure of big money is too much and after all, he'll only be gone a week.

Yet once he's on the trail of Vasquez, fate puts them together as partners. Money will do that. But at the end of it all, they have to face one another, this time in a ghost town where only one will walk out alive. That's because Django -- who often kills when his prey isn't ready and often continues shooting them long after their dead -- has finally screwed up in his cynical pursuit of the almighty dollar and Vasquez has gotten one over on him by killing Mijanou. To say that this Django has issues that cost him everything, well, that's putting it lightly. His lover once begged him to leave this life behind. Now, she's dead and he's reached his rock bottom with no prize for clawing his way out.

Now, you'd think that at least Django gets to save Dolores from being with such a horrible man, a criminal put in jail by her father and used to get back at him. But she's found that she loves this life, just as much as Django once did, the excitement and money and blood. So one more death may bring him that $10,000, but money is meaningless at the end of all this unpayable loss.

Directed by Romolo Guerrieri (La Controfigura, The Sweet Body of Deborah) and written by Sauro Scavolini, Franco Fogagnolo, Luciano Martino and Ernesto Gastaldi, this film lives up to the brutal promise of the Italian west. The sweetness in it comes from the Theremin soundtrack composed by Nora Orlandi.