; Goodbye Texas in USA; Django, der Rächer or Django 2 in West Germany

West Germany

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) is a 1967 film directed by Ferdinando Baldi

Ferdinando Baldi

Ferdinando Baldi was an Italian film director, film producer and screenwriter. He was born on 19 May 1927 in Cava dei Tirreni, in the Province of Salerno.-Career:...

 and starring Franco Nero

Franco Nero

Franco Nero is an Italian actor.-Early life:Nero was born Francesco Sparanero in San Prospero Parmense , the son of a sergeant in the...

. It is often referenced in connection with Django

Django (film)

Django is a 1966 Italian spaghetti Western film directed by Sergio Corbucci and starring Franco Nero in the eponymous role. The film earned a reputation as being one of the most violent films ever made up to that point and was subsequently refused a certificate in Britain until 1993, when it was...

, also starring Nero, and although was referred to as "Django 2" in some countries, it is not considered a sequel. The film is mostly remembered as a lesser known Spaghetti Western

Spaghetti Western

Spaghetti Western, also known as Italo-Western, is a nickname for a broad sub-genre of Western films that emerged in the mid-1960s in the wake of Sergio Leone's unique and much copied film-making style and international box-office success, so named by American critics because most were produced and...

.

Plot

Although technically a Spaghetti Western, the plot of Texas, Adios plays more like a traditional American western

Western (genre)

The Western is a genre of various visual arts, such as film, television, radio, literature, painting and others. Westerns are devoted to telling stories set primarily in the latter half of the 19th century in the American Old West, hence the name. Some Westerns are set as early as the Battle of...

 film. Franco Nero plays two-fisted, taciturn Texas sheriff, Burt Sullivan, a man committed to duty and justice but possessed by a desire for revenge. Sullivan, along with his younger brother, crosses the border to bring wealthy and sadistic Mexican crime boss Cisco Delgado (José Suárez

José Suárez

-Career:José Suárez made his debut in a short role in Altar Mayor , a very conventional film, whose director, Gonzalo Delgrás, had paid attention to him in his work as a train conductor in Asturias...

) to justice for the murder of their father. Eventually joining forces with a group of Mexican revolutionaries, Sullivan and his brother soon find themselves at the center of a bloodbath.

Characters

Burt Sullivan: is a Sherrif in his town, called White Rock. He leaves one day, to go to Mexico to find the man responsible for the death of his father. Burt joins forces with the local townspeople to stop and bring Cisco back to his punishment in Texas.
Jim Sullivan: is Burt's younger brother. He follows Burt, and later joins up with him on their way to Mexico.

Cisco Delgado: is the man, who many years ago, killed Burt's father and raped his mother. Jim, thus, is Cisco's son, unbeknownst to both Burt and Jim. Cisco has become the local landowner in Mexoco, where everybody lives in fear of him.

Production

Texas, Adios, like many Spaghetti Westerns, was shot in the Spanish province Almería

Almería (province)

-History:The rich customs and Fiestas of the denizens retain links deep into the past, unto the Moors, the Romans, the Greeks, and the Phoenicians.During the taifa era, it was ruled by the Moor Banu al-Amiri from 1012 to 1038, briefly annexed by Valencia , then given by Zaragoza to the Banu Sumadih...

. Franco Nero, in his comments on the Anchor Bay

Anchor Bay Entertainment

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 DVD

DVD

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 mentions that the Texas, Adios shoot took place not far from where Sergio Leone

Sergio Leone

Sergio Leone was an Italian film director, producer and screenwriter most associated with the "Spaghetti Western" genre.Leone's film-making style includes juxtaposing extreme close-up shots with lengthy long shots...

 was filming The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly at the same time. Nero and Clint Eastwood

Clint Eastwood

Clinton "Clint" Eastwood, Jr. is an American film actor, director, producer, composer and politician. Eastwood first came to prominence as a supporting cast member in the TV series Rawhide...

spent time between shots socializing.