Another wonderfully ground-breaking western from Sergio Leone with a memorable score from Ennio M...
Duck, You Sucker
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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Duck, You Sucker
- Overview
- Cast
- Crew
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Status
Released
Release Date
Oct 20, 1971
Runtime
2h 37m
Genres
Western
User Score
77%
Original Title
Giù la testa
Production Companies
Rafran Cinematografica, San Marco, Euro International Films
Director
Sergio Leone
Description
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.