Duck, You Sucker

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

1971 2h 37m IT

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7.7

BANGER

★7.7TMDB · 1,227

Western

Synopsis

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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.

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

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Cast

Rod Steiger
Juan Miranda
James Coburn
John H. Mallory
Romolo Valli
Dr. Villega
Maria Monti
Woman on Stagecoach
Rik Battaglia
Santerna
Franco Graziosi
Governor Jaime
Antoine Saint-John
Col. Günther Reza
Vivienne Chandler
John's Girlfriend

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Sergio Leone
Writers: Luciano Vincenzoni, Sergio Leone, Sergio Leone
Languages: Spanish, Italian
Countries: Italy

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RUNTIME

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Clocks in at 157 minutes — on the longer side of feature-length cinema.

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ERA

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55 years old — a genuine piece of film history.

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3 / 8

WORLD

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Dialogue crosses 2 languages: Spanish, Italian.

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4 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Sergio Leone, shot by Giuseppe Ruzzolini. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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5 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Original score by Ennio Morricone. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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6 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Nino Baragli shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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7 / 8

CAST

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Rod Steiger and James Coburn and Romolo Valli carry the top of the cast.

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8 / 8

ERA

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Marketing tagline: "Two daredevils battle for a fortune in gold, and it will take an army to stop them!".

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Sergio Leone directs. Giuseppe Ruzzolini behind the camera. Ennio Morricone scores. Nino Baragli cuts. Produced in Italy. Dialogue in Spanish, Italian.

Trivia

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1Clocks in at 157 minutes — on the longer side of feature-length cinema.
255 years old — a genuine piece of film history.
3Dialogue crosses 2 languages: Spanish, Italian.
4Directed by Sergio Leone, shot by Giuseppe Ruzzolini. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
5Original score by Ennio Morricone. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
6Editor Nino Baragli shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
7Rod Steiger and James Coburn and Romolo Valli carry the top of the cast.
8Marketing tagline: "Two daredevils battle for a fortune in gold, and it will take an army to stop them!".
9IMDB entry: tt0067140 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
10Classified under 9 themes, including "mexico", "robbery", "rape", "prisoner".
11Released under 17 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Cinematography: Giuseppe Ruzzolini
Original score: Ennio Morricone
Editing: Nino Baragli
Costume design: Franco Carretti
Makeup / hair: Amato Garbini
Runtime: 157 min · 2h 37m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Original language: IT
Certification (US): PG
IMDB: Duck, You Sucker (1971)

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CinemaSerf2023-05-29
★ 7/10
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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