Dingetjie is Dynamite!
Dingetjie is Dynamite! is an Afrikaans film by Ivan Hall (1935 – 2008)
Alternatively also known as My Naam Is Nog Steeds Dingetjie, or as Dingetjie Is Dynamite! (My Naam Is Nog Steeds Dingetjie).
The film
Referred to as a "Boerewors-western", it is the second in the 1975 "Dingetjie" series of comedies, broadly inspired by the 1970/71 Terence Hill and Bud Spencer "spaghetti westerns" about the character called "Trinity" (notably My Name Is Trinity[1] and Trinity Is Still My Name[2]). (The first was My Naam is Dingetjie, released in May, 1975).
Set in the 1930's, it tells of a gang that has been terrorizing the locals, who are confronted by Dingetjie and Daan, two mismatched brothers who are employed by a local matriarch to guard her cattle.
Written by C.F. Beyers-Boshoff and directed by Ivan Hall, with Wena Naudé (as "Ouma Hessie"), Don Leonard (as "Daan van der Merwe"), Roelf Laubscher (as "Dingetjie van der Merwe"), Hal Orlandini (as the villain "Zane"]]. The rest of the cast consisted of Doug Watson (Douglas Watson), Jimmy Rayson, Roberta Durrant, Alexandra Bungey, Manie Botha, Friedrich Stark, Cedric Sundstrom and Jannie Wienand.
The film was produced by Ben Vlok for Kavalier Films, with music by Zane Cronjé, cinematography by Manie Botha (assisted by Umberto Adaggi as still photographer and Paul R. Thompson as assistant camera), editing by Brian Varaday and David Joubert, production management by Gloria Treffry-Goatley, sound by Cas Odendaal and Brian Starke, stunts by Solly Marx and Jannie Wienand, costume and wardrobe department run by Anna Richter-Visser and continuity by Sally Ascham.
Released in South Africa on 20 October, 1975.
Translations, adaptations, sequels, etc
Sources
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2034665/
Louis Fouché 1975. "Dingetjie doen dit weer - dié keer saam met Don en Wena", in the Tydskrif-Rapport, 3 August, 1975: p. 11
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