One of the many unofficial sequels of Django, this movie had the working title 7 dollari su Django (7 Dollars on Django) and is also known as Ten Thousand Dollars for a Massacre and Guns of Violence.

Django (listed as Gary Hudson, but come on, we all know Gianni Garko when we see him) is a bounty hunter — he’s more like a bounty killer, as he never brings back anyone alive — who is watching Manuel Vasquez (Claudio Camaso) as he goes on a crime spree, knowing the more he kills, the more he’ll be worth. Once there’s a price of $10,000 on his head, that’s when Django will take care of business.

That price is reached when Vasquez kidnaps the daughter of Mendoza (Frank Little), a rancher. Dolores Mendoza (Adriana Ambesi, who often went by Audrey Amber and who is also in Secret Agent Super Dragon, Malenka and The Bible: In the Beginning…) is a young woman beloved by her older father, so he doubles the reward.

Django was ready to quit killing for money and wanted to settle down with Mijanou (Loredana Nusciak, The Tiffany Memorandum, Something Creeping in The Dark). But the lure of big money is too much and after all, he’ll only be gone a week.

Yet once he’s on the trail of Vasquez, fate puts them together as partners. Money will do that. But at the end of it all, they have to face one another, this time in a ghost town where only one will walk out alive. That’s because Django — who often kills when his prey isn’t ready and often continues shooting them long after their dead — has finally screwed up in his cynical pursuit of the almighty dollar and Vasquez has gotten one over on him by killing Mijanou. To say that this Django has issues that cost him everything, well, that’s putting it lightly. His lover once begged him to leave this life behind. Now, she’s dead and he’s reached his rock bottom with no prize for clawing his way out.

Now, you’d think that at least Django gets to save Dolores from being with such a horrible man, a criminal put in jail by her father and used to get back at him. But she’s found that she loves this life, just as much as Django once did, the excitement and money and blood. So one more death may bring him that $10,000, but money is meaningless at the end of all this unpayable loss.

Directed by Romolo Guerrieri (La Controfigura, The Sweet Body of Deborah) and written by Sauro Scavolini, Franco Fogagnolo, Luciano Martino and Ernesto Gastaldi, this film lives up to the brutal promise of the Italian West. the sweetness in it comes from the Theremin soundtrack composed by Nora Orlandi.

The Arrow Blood Money: Four Western Classics Vol. 2 set has 2K restorations of all four films from the original 35mm camera negatives by Arrow Films, original Italian and English front and end titles, restored lossless original Italian and English soundtracks, English subtitles for the Italian soundtracks, brand new introductions to each film by journalist and critic Fabio Melelli, galleries for all four films, an illustrated collector’s booklet featuring new writing by author and critic Howard Hughes, a fold-out double-sided poster featuring newly commissioned artwork by Gilles Vranckx and limited edition packaging with reversible sleeves featuring original artwork and a slipcover featuring newly commissioned artwork by Gilles Vranckx.

$10,000 Blood Money has brand new audio commentary by author and film historian Lee Broughton; Tears of Django, a newly edited featurette with archival interviews with director Romolo Guerrieri and actor Gianni Garko; The Producer Who Didn’t Like Western Movies, a brand new interview with producer Mino Loy; a brand new interview with screenwriter Ernesto Gastaldi and the theatrical trailer.

You can get it from MVD.