Duck, You Sucker

Release Date: 1971-10-29

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.

Rating: 7.693 / 10

Cast

Rod Steiger

as Juan Miranda

James Coburn

as John H. Mallory

Romolo Valli

as Dr. Villega

Maria Monti

as Woman on Stagecoach

Rik Battaglia

as Santerna

Crew

Giuseppe Ruzzolini - Director of Photography
Nino Baragli - Editor
Franco Carretti - Costume Design
Andrea Crisanti - Art Direction
Sergio Leone - Director

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...