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Duck, You Sucker (aka A Fistful of Dynamite) (2-Disc Collector's Edition) 
Actors : James Coburn, Rod Steiger, Romolo Valli, Maria Monti, Rik Battaglia
Director : Sergio Leone
Studio : MGM (Video & DVD)
by MGM (Video & DVD)
Brand : TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
Release Date : 2007-06-05
Publisher : MGM (Video & DVD)
Availability : Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Number of Items : 2
EAN : 0027616077356
UPC : 027616077356
Avg. Customer Rating: (based on 46 reviews)
List Price : $19.98
Our Price : $10.99
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Rod Steiger and James Coburn will blow you apart in "A Fistful of Dynamite" ("Duck You Sucker") by the master of adventure Sergio Leone In Mexico at the time of the Revolution Juan the leader of a bandit family meets John Mallory an IRA explosives expert on the run from the British. Seeing John's skill with explosives Juan decides to persuade him to join the bandits in a raid on the great bank of Mesa Verde. John in the meantime has made contact with the revolutionaries and intends to use his dynamite in their service.Run Time: 157 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE Rating: UNRATED UPC: 027616077356 Manufacturer No: M107735 |
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A different sort of Sergio Leone Western, this one takes place during the Mexican Revolution, with more politics than usual. But there's still plenty of action, with Rod Steiger as a cigar-chomping peasant who robs banks to liberate political prisoners, and James Coburn as an Irish terrorist trying to flee from his bitter past. They team up to thwart a sadistic officer and help the cause; redemption for the more subdued Coburn provides added depth. This contains the longer uncut version (released in Italy) known as Duck, You Sucker, featuring more flashbacks, more politics, and a more unsavory Steiger. But it's terrific fun, with Ennio Morricone's moody score and Coburn's most underrated performance. --Bill Desowitz |
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Badly Named,Brilliant Movie |
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I am a big fan of James Coburn and this may be his best movie. I should have known that Sergio Leone was behind this! Coburn plays an Irish freedom fighter-some of the reviewers slander him by calling him a terrorist-who is forced to kill his best friend when he betrays the Irish Brotherhood to the Black and Tans. Coburn's charector is a true revolutionary-in one scene he is reading the great anarchist Baukunin's "On Patriotism". He winds up in revolutionary Mexico where he befriends a bandit leader who joins the revolution by default-he and his clan are in opposition to the authorities, so he winds up fighting against them as a revolutionary himself.Americans should note the diffference between the Mexican Civil War and the American Civil War-in Mexico, as in most revolutions, wholesale murder the way things are done. Coburn's performance is sentimental, but he's playing a charector of Irish background,joined with Mexicans-some of the most sentimental races on earth. Steiger's performance is also brillliant. It is a shame this movie isn't better known. God bless Coburn, a brilliant actor who played everthing from faux secret agents to a killer to a doomed German sargent on the Eastern Front. We miss you, James-God bless you. |
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entertaining but not as good as the other movies in the series, the pacing it off slightly |
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slow but colorful |
The major destiny in this film brings Sean, John, Juan, Johnny and Johnny to a revolution in Mexico. A revolution by rich people, like the American Revolution from 1775 to whenever the British gave up and did not come back until 1812, can actually accomplish something. Even a poor person's revolt, like the French Revolution of 1789 until the terror in 1993 can accomplish something for rich people who need to rid a country of the aristocracy that impedes capitalistic accumulation, according to George Bataille in The Accursed Share, volume one (it is a book, and the beginning of a series). Juan is more interested in gold, money, and dynamite than in political prisoners, but when the political prisoners appear he seems to feel they are worthless people.
I liked the commentary on how slow this movie goes compared to other Westerns and how a scene was cut so people would not get up and walk out of the movie due to having sexuality betrayed. Volume Two of the Accursed Share is on eroticism, and we are lucky that this movie is so old, none of the political prisoners had panties on their heads. |
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Perhaps the best of Leone's westerns |
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A fine CD with excellent narration if one likes that. Fascinating story of the Mexican revolution with excellent production values, 1st rate cast even if Eli Wallach is missing. The origin of somewhat bizarre title is hilarious. |
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Never got it. |
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This DVD never got to me. I checked with my post office and it's vanished, apparently into thin air. I don't know what happened, except that I'm out $25 or so and have no DVD. I've wanted to see this for a few years now and am still not able to. I ain't happy. |
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