Vintage Tuez Django Belgium Movie Poster 🤠 1971 Spaghetti Western, Doodt Django, Cosmopolis Films

Remember Tuez Django? 🤠 Belgium's Own Kind of Movie Poster

Size: 14" x 22" ~ Unused archive stock. Little to slight wear. Everything here is stored in the dark, under 40% relative humidity, at a steady 72°F, climate controlled, so whatever age a sheet shows, it had before it came to me.

Only Belgium printed movie posters this size, and they really went for it - louder than anybody's. Collectors love Belgian posters for the size and the art, and the minute I hold one I see why.

🎬 Kill Django.. Kill First, Belgian-Style

This is the Belgian release sheet — French title TUEZ DJANGO!, Flemish DOODT DJANGO! banded along the foot — for the 1971 Italian spaghetti western known in Italy as Uccidi Django.. uccidi per primo!!! and in English as Kill Django.. Kill First. Sergio Garrone, who is credited right on the poster (REGIE: SERGIO GARRONE), directed it from a script by Palmambrogio Molteni.

Giacomo Rossi Stuart's Johnny rides into a gold-mining town, makes friends with an old prospector, and winds up between the old man and Burton, a crooked banker who wants the claim and has no problem sending gunmen after anybody in the way. Krista Nell — billed here as Krista Nell, though the film's own credits list her as Kristanell Doris — plays Molly, and George Wang (GEORE WANG on this sheet) plays the bandit Lupe Martinez, Burton's hired gun. Two more names carry the picture off the sheet: Aldo Sambrell plays Burton, and Silvio Bagolini plays Thomas Livingstone.

And here's the joke at the center of it: there is no Django in this movie. Corbucci's Django came out in Italy in 1966 and was such a smash that dozens of westerns slapped the name on the marquee with no tie at all to his story or his hero. Tuez Django! / Doodt Django! is one of them — you're buying the name recognition, not an appearance by the character, and that's half the fun of collecting this corner of the genre.

🖼️ Reading the Sheet

The art is a blue-and-sepia duotone, nothing beyond that dark blue ground and warm sepia shading on the figures. In the foreground a young man in a light shirt and gunbelt is thrown backward as he's hit, one fist flung up over his head; behind him, up on a low rise, a bearded gunman in a broad-brimmed hat stands braced with his pistol drawn. COSMOPOLIS FILM runs across the top left in black block letters, and the billing sits up in the top right: GIACOMO ROSSI-STUART, KRISTA NELL, and GEORE WANG.

That last one is my favorite detail on the whole sheet — the printer dropped a letter and set GEORE WANG instead of George Wang, in the exact same bold white type as the other two names. That's how it came off the Brussels press, and I'm leaving it exactly as printed. Below the artwork, TUEZ DJANGO! runs in heavy blue slab capitals with a sepia drop shadow, REGIE: SERGIO GARRONE sits at the lower left, EASTMANCOLOR at the lower right, and a full-width blue bar along the very foot carries the Flemish title, DOODT DJANGO!, in white. Down in the bottom margin, in small type, is the printer's own line: Imp. Wagram, Tel. 17.48.81, Bruxelles — the Brussels house that ran this off its presses, phone number and all.

🗄️ Out of the Cosmopolis Films Archive

Cosmopolis Films put this poster into Belgian cinemas from its offices at 4 rue des Palais, in Schaerbeek, Brussels — one address in a strip of film-distributor offices that also held Belga Films, Benelux Films, Columbia Films, Elan Films, and Cine Vose Films, clustered along rue Royale, rue des Palais, rue Dupont, and chaussée de Haecht. Brussels trade directories place Cosmopolis at that same door from at least 1953 through 1963, and Belgium's own film-censorship records carry Cosmopolis Films as distributor of record on roughly 178 films, with dated visas running from December 17, 1947 to October 1, 1987 — the better part of forty years putting movies in front of Belgian audiences. Its catalog leaned hard into exactly this kind of picture: postwar Italian and French dramas, the Maciste/Ursus/Ercole sword-and-sandal wave, swashbucklers and corsair films, Eurospy thrillers, a deep run of spaghetti westerns, Japanese kaiju and anime, Hong Kong and Taiwanese martial arts films, and European exploitation pictures on into the 1970s and 80s.

This sheet comes from the archive of the now-defunct Cosmopolis Films, kept together as one collection since 2007. These were never sold to the public — they were trade stock, sent out to cinemas and usually thrown away once a run ended. I haven't seen another copy of this Belgian printing offered anywhere, so it's a rare one - and once these are gone, they're gone.