Duck, You Sucker! (Italian: Giù la testa), also known as A Fistful of Dynamite and Once Upon a Time… the Revolution (Italian: C'Era una Volta la Rivoluzione), is a 1971 so-called spaghetti western film directed by Sergio Leone and starring Rod Steiger and James Coburn.
It is the second part of a trilogy of epic Leone films including the previous Once Upon a Time in the West and the subsequent Once Upon a Time in America, released thirteen years l...
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Duck, You Sucker! (Italian: Giù la testa), also known as A Fistful of Dynamite and Once Upon a Time… the Revolution (Italian: C'Era una Volta la Rivoluzione), is a 1971 so-called spaghetti western film directed by Sergio Leone and starring Rod Steiger and James Coburn.
It is the second part of a trilogy of epic Leone films including the previous Once Upon a Time in the West and the subsequent Once Upon a Time in America, released thirteen years later. The last western film directed by Leone, it is also his most overlooked.
The setting is 1913 Mexico at the time of the Revolution. Juan Miranda (Rod Steiger), a Mexican outlaw leading a bandit family, meets John Mallory (James Coburn), an early Irish nationalist explosives expert on the run from the British. Noting his skill with explosives, Juan relentlessly tries to make him join a raid on the Mesa Verde national bank. John in the meantime has made contact with the revolutionaries and intends to use his dynamite in their service. The...
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