Don't Wait Django, Shoot! (1967)

Perhaps not one of the classic Spaghetti Westerns.... Django's father is shot by some bandits who claimed he sold some horses and then never provided the horses (it was never entirely clear to me if Django's father had provided the horses, or was a conman like everyone else). The bandits then spend the remainder of the film double-crossing each other in an attempt to get the recovered money. Meanwhile, the head of the bandits—a man who runs a ranch staffed by shirtless cowboys for some reason—is trying to hunt down Django. Django is helped by a portly businessman, who, slightly surprisingly, turns out to be on-the-level.

The film—as noted by the Spaghetti Western database summary---is very bitty, and often jumps from the aftermath of one betrayal to the aftermath of another, which initially is a little confusing. [One of these I did enjoy, however: the film leaps from a bandit leader setting off to kill his son (who's run off with the money) to him being furious that someone else has killed his son.] It's stylishly shot (as far as low budget Spaghetti Westerns go), and Edoardo Mulargia (credited as Edward G. Muller) was clearly a competent director, and one that I gather is reasonably respected for his horror films.

Something that I did find odd was the portrayal of Django. He's the calm, laconic, skilled gunfighter we all recognise, and to this end he's played pretty well by Sean Todd/Ivan Rassimov (psuedonyms again!). However, he also seems to have a family, and lives with his father, sister, and uncle. Django does not seem like the sort of person to keep in close contact with his relations (while at the same time maintaining considerable gunfighting talent).