Duck, You Sucker

1972 "Two daredevils battle for a fortune in gold, and it will take an army to stop them!"
7.6| 2h37m| PG| en| More Info
Released: 28 June 1972 Released
Producted By: Rafran Cinematografica
Country: Spain
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At the beginning of the 1913 Mexican Revolution, greedy bandit Juan Miranda and idealist John H. Mallory, an Irish Republican Army explosives expert on the lam from the British, fall in with a band of revolutionaries plotting to strike a national bank. When it turns out that the government has been using the bank as a hiding place for illegally detained political prisoners -- who are freed by the blast -- Miranda becomes a revolutionary hero against his will.

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CheerupSilver Very Cool!!!
TrueHello Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.
Humbersi The first must-see film of the year.
Kaydan Christian A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.
Regina Banali This brilliant movie is haunting and beautiful. The directing by Sergeo Leone, the music by Ennio Morricone are genius, but the performances by Rod Steiger and James Coburn are rich and moving and unforgettable. This movie is a must see. It's in my top ten favorite films of all time.
eerr-85689 It's the must underrated movie i've ever seen The reason could be the terrible title or overused genre. Overall it's such a great journey driven by outstanding cast,director,and composer
t-viktor212 While not being at all my favourite Sergio Leone film, I still believe this movie is one of those you should have seen to consider yourself a proper cinephile. "Duck, you sucker" starts with a guy peeing, something kind of strange in a western film. In fact, the first scene that comes after that introduces very well and seriously one of the biggest themes in the movie, the discrimination of the poor and the Mexican revolution. Then we have the encounter between the two main characters, and a whole alteration of really silly, humorous and childish moments to very serious scenes and events. This film depicts violence of the Mexican dictatorship as crudely as many films depict Nazis. Homever, it also shows an aspect of revolutions not always obvious. As Mao-Tze tung'squote says at the beginning, "Revolution is an act of violence". The film, through the experiences of John as an I.R.A. terrorist shown in flashbacks, paralleling events in the film, how inglorious and dirty were actually the really hosannated revolutions, making the viewer feel at the end similarly to John, who says at a point in the film, "I don't believe in anything but dynamite." This movie though is not anti-revolutionary or justifies dictatorships. "Duck you sucker" has a quite complex theme and seriousness, next to some really silly and childish situations or jokes, and an unmemorable score which are what make the movie fall down to mark 8/10. Every Sergio Leone fan should try to understand it homever.
inspectors71 Junk.Sergio Leone was an acquired taste--his "Dollar Trilogy" runs the gamut from lean/lyrical to surreal/stupefying. Leone comes a cropper with his elephantine "A Fistful of Dynamite," a low-brid combination of political revolution, infantile plotting, and dreadful performances.Although "Duck You Sucker" (the alternate title) tries to be a message film, all we get is incoherence, with buckets of blood and one of the weirder musical scores I've heard. Rod Steiger and James Coburn are trapped in bad make-up and/or bad accents as they slaughter and butcher and incinerate roughly a third of the Mexican Army in the 1910 Revolution. I kept hoping, during what seemed to be a week of movie watching, that some of the old surrealistic, alternate-universe, western magic would appear. All I got for my effort of watching A Fistful of Dynamite was a weak headache, and I felt sad for Sergio Leone because, although he wasn't a great director, he had a knack for big storytelling.And that knack wasn't apparent in this incomprehensible and artsy- fartsy bloodbath.