Revenge - The Flaming Stars

Twangy, Spaghetti Western flavoured cover of the David Allen Coe barroom lament.

In the 60s and 70s over 600 Westerns were made in Europe. Pick of the bunch were the Django series, including Django, Django Does Not Forgive and Sergio Garrone's violent and spectacularly-named Django the Bastard.

The oddest of the Django movies is Django, Kill... If You Live, Shoot!. It's the story of Django verses a sadistic gay bandit named Zorro and his gang of black-clad homosexual outlaws who are terrorizing a small town.

It's also the story of a store owner who has stolen a shipment of confederate gold dust and when his store catches fire he attempts to save the gold, but in the intense heat it melts and drips all over his face, burning and smothering him at the same time..... They don't make them like that anymore.

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I Did What I Did For Maria - Tony Christie

The Tony Christie songbook is choc-full of classic tunes (the top ten smash Is This Way to Amarillo; the cabaret noir of Avenues and Alleyways and his definitive rendition of Solitaire) but this revenge-for-dead-wife aural western tops the lot.

Think of it as a John Ford movie for the chicken-in-a-basket circuit.

I saw Tony Christie belt out his hits last year in a cabaret club in Barnet - real bandit country. The townsfolk were restless; they looked like the sort of people who would be devestated if they missed EastEnders. I had a superb Chilli Con Carne with white rice.

Django, Kill... If You Live, Shoot! from Director Guilo Questi, also features townsfolk digging gold bullets out of dead bodies, animals killed before the camera and wrongdoers roasted on a spit over an open fire. Normal activities in Barnet I believe.

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