| Duck, You Sucker (aka A Fistful of Dynamite) (2-Disc Collector's Edition) | 
 enlarge | Director: Sergio Leone
Actors: Rod Steiger, James Coburn, Romolo Valli, Maria Monti, Rik Battaglia
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  46 reviews
Sales Rank: 15744
Format: Ac-3, Collector's Edition, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: Italian (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Number Of Items: 2
Running Time: 138
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: M107735
UPC: 027616077356
EAN: 0027616077356
ASIN: B000OPOANO
Theatrical Release Date: 1972
Release Date: June 5, 2007
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Product Description
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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 Leone Takes on Revolution & Politics Through IRA & Mexico December 24, 2008
The wait was quite long for the remaining 3 remastered Leone movies. These DVDs had been out in the UK/Region 2 for since 18 April 2005, 2+ years (5 June 2007.)
Duck You Sucker is the least of the Once Upon A Time films but is still great. The title is not American parlance but it doesn't matter. I am glad to finally be able to see it. I love the actors: Rod Steiger and James Coburn. I think both are under appreciated. Memorable scenes include the faces montage on the stage coach, the scene in the bank basement, the massacre in the trenches, the communist book getting run over, and my favorite is the betrayal in the rain scene and how the wiper blade is going. The ending is great and reminds me somewhat of Frankenheimer's The Train. Great model work saves movie budgets and allow for that nice stagecoach and armored car. The Morricone score is great. The chorus sings "Juan, Juan, Juan" and the easier to understand, "Sean, Sean, Sean." Sir Christopher Frayling is wrong when he says that the lyrics are unintelligible. The extras are pretty good if less cohesive than other DVD supplements out there.
This movie is a dress rehearsal for Once Upon A Time In America. The flashbacks get more numerous and more complex through the three films. The final flashback in this film seems quite risque and not at all how it stared out in the auto at the beginning. The early scene of implied sexuality with Steiger leaves some ambiguity about violence that is not there in Once Upon A Time In America. All the violence was ratcheted up and yet hung on a moving story. I would love to see the purported 6.5 hour cut of that movie.
The picture is great on my 24" flat screen tube TV fed through component inputs and shown 4:9 letterbox. The Lowry process has made them as new or maybe even better than when originally released (not alive when in initial release.) I hope a 16:9 progressive scan capable TV will make the image that much better. The sound is good. I do not have a 5.1 capable receiver, just as well with the new Blu-Ray audio options making older units closer to obsolescence. (I can't wait to listen to Leon: The Professional and Patriot Games among others in DTS someday and hope that Ronin and Braveheart will come out in DTS at some point.)
The 2 disc white Amaray case with slipcase is much better than the bulky case that came with The Good, The Bad... in 2004. The only problem would be getting white replacement cases at a reasonable cost.
If you have not seen Once Upon A Time In The West, get the 2 disc SE now, it is cheap to buy. The musical theme for Jill with Edda Dell'Orso's voice is angelic. The movie is Leone's best along with Once Upon A Time In America (which has some disturbing scenes of violence and vulgarity. It is not for children or gentle adults.)
d August 5, 2008
entertaining but not as good as the other movies in the series, the pacing it off slightly
slow but colorful July 24, 2008
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.
Perhaps the best of Leone's westerns July 18, 2008
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.
 Never got it. June 26, 2008
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
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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