Duck, You Sucker
Duck, You Sucker is a 1971 film from Italy, directed by Sergio Leone, running 157 minutes. reelscum files it under spaghetti western.
- Year
- 1971 · 1970s films
- Country
- Italy
- Runtime
- 157 min
- Director
- Sergio Leone
- Updated
- 10 Aug 2026
- Obscurity
- canon (9/100)
- Also known as
- A Fistful of Dynamite · Once Upon a Time in the Revolution · Duck, You Sucker!
Defined in the glossary: Spaghetti western
Leone's revolution film. A Mexican bandit and an IRA dynamiter blow up the establishment together.
Sergio Leone's last western, also known as A Fistful of Dynamite, is his most political and most personal, following a Mexican bandit and a disillusioned Irish explosives expert swept up in the Mexican Revolution. It is more cynical about revolution than the Zapata westerns, and considerably sadder.
Rod Steiger and James Coburn make an odd, effective pair, and Morricone's score is among his most tender. Long, uneven and deeply felt, it is a fitting end to Leone's western career and much better than its troubled reputation.
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