''One Damned Day at Dawn… Django Meets Sartana!'' (, "''That Cursed Winter Day: Django and Sartana to the Death"'') is a 1970

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directed by

Demofilo Fidani Demofilo Fidani (born 8 February 1914 on a steamship bound for Cagliari; died 4 April 1994) was an Italian film director (24 films), set designer (more than 200 films), painter, and a regarded medium and author. As director, Fidani specialized i ...

Plot

Django, a gunfighter, teams up with another gunfighter named Sartana to wipe out a gang of gun-runners that have been terrorizing the citizens of Black City.

Release

''One Damned Day at Dawn… Django Meets Sartana!'' was released in 1970. The film is not an official part of either the '' Django'' or ''

Sartana ''Sartana'' is a series of Spaghetti Western films which follows the adventures of the title character, a gunfighter and gambler who uses mechanical gadgets and seemingly supernatural powers to trick his rivals. The series features five officia ...

'' series and along with

Pasquale Squitieri Pasquale Squitieri (27 November 1938 – 18 February 2017) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. Life and career Born in Naples, Squitieri graduated in law, then was briefly involved in stage, as author ("''La battaglia''") and even a ...

's '' Django Defies Sartana'' and

's and Diego Spataro's '' Django and Sartana Are Coming... It's the End'', was among three of the unofficial ''Django and Sartana'' films released in 1970.

Reception

In a retrospective review, Howard Hughes wrote in his book ''Cinema Italiana'' that ''One Damned Day at Dawn...Django Meets Sartana!'' was "a plotless meander made on the cheap in familiar Lazio quarries." and stated that "Fidani's westerns, particularly

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are notable for their stunt performer's twitching deaths, which more closely resemble electrocution or gymnastics" and finally compared the director to

Ed Wood Edward Davis Wood Jr. (October 10, 1924 – December 10, 1978) was an American filmmaker, actor, and pulp novelist. In the 1950s, Wood directed several B movie, low-budget science fiction, crime and horror films that later became cult c ...

, stating that Fidani's film titles were always more imaginative than the bargain-basement films they publicise.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:One Damned Day at Dawn... Django Meets Sartana! Spaghetti Western films Django films Sartana films 1970 Western (genre) films 1970 films 1970s Italian films Films directed by Demofilo Fidani