Duck, You Sucker

“Two daredevils battle for a fortune in gold, and it will take an army to stop them!”

7.7

1971

2h 37m

Western

Director: Sergio Leone

Overview

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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Cast

Juan Miranda

Rod Steiger

Juan Miranda

John H. Mallory

James Coburn

John H. Mallory

Dr. Villega

Romolo Valli

Dr. Villega

Woman on Stagecoach

Maria Monti

Woman on Stagecoach

Santerna

Rik Battaglia

Santerna

Governor Jaime

Franco Graziosi

Governor Jaime

Col. Günther Reza

Antoine Saint-John

Col. Günther Reza

John's Girlfriend

Vivienne Chandler

John's Girlfriend

Sean Nolan

David Warbeck

Sean Nolan

Miguel

Giulio Battiferri

Miguel

Revolutionary

Poldo Bendandi

Revolutionary

Omar Bonaro

Revolutionary

Reviews

CinemaSerf

Another wonderfully ground-breaking western from Sergio Leone with a memorable score from Ennio Morricone - this time with Rod Steiger as a bit of a low life bandit who encounters James Coburn - a IRA explosives expert on the run from the British. The story is told in tandem timelines as we discover just what brought Coburn to revolutionary Mexico in the first place and the current scenario as he and Steiger gradually develop their relationship from potential bank robbers to something way more sophisticated and inter-reliant. Along the way we've got plenty of humour, action - explosives galore - with some fine photography of the locale. At times, it can be a little too unnecessarily violent - particularly once they become more involved in the revolution; but Steiger and Coburn are great.

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