django (1966)

As the titles roll, a man walks alone in the desert, dragging a coffin. He comes across Maria (Loredana Nusciak), who is being beaten, and naturally rescues her. It is then revealed that he is Django (Franco Nero) a man determined to confront the local gangs led by Major Jackson (Eduardo Fajardo) and General Hugo Rodriguez (José Bódalo). But why the coffin, and what's in it?
In Django Sergio Corbucci has crafted what is considered to be one of the finest spaghetti westerns. Shot through with religious symbolism, and intense cruelty. Each man we meet is worse than the next, from racially bigoted preachers, to sadistic Mexican gangs. Years before Reservoir Dogs, Corbucci has a man force fed one of his own ears. A violent, but beautifully shot paean on life and death in the lawless west, where no one wins in the end.