Duck, You Sucker! (Italian: Giù la testa, lit. "Duck Your Head"), also known as A Fistful of Dynamite and Once Upon a Time... The Revolution, is a 1971 epic Zapata Western film directed and co-written by Sergio Leone, starring Rod Steiger, James Coburn and Romolo Valli.
The film marked the last western film of Leone. It is the second film of Leone's Once Upon a Time Trilogy, the others include Once Upon a Time in the West and Once Upon a Time in America.
Plot[]
At the beginning of the Mexican Revolution in 1913, greedy bandit Juan Miranda (Rod Steiger) and idealist John H. Mallory (James Coburn), 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.
Cast[]
- Rod Steiger as Juan Miranda
- James Coburn as John (Seán) H. Mallory
- Romolo Valli as Dr. Villega
- Maria Monti as Adelita
- Rik Battaglia as General Santerna
- Franco Graziosi as Governor Don Jaime
- Antoine Saint-John as Colonel Günther Reza
- Vivienne Chandler as Coleen
- David Warbeck as Nolan