A Fistful of Dynamite

The last great spaghetti western from Sergio Leone stars Rod Steiger as a peasant who unwittingly gets involved in the Mexican revolution., James Coburn plays an Irish mercenary who meets up with bank-robber Rod Steiger in revolution-torn Mexico where the former’s expertise with explosives helps the latter pull off the biggest heist of his career. Inevitably, politics intervene and the pair find themselves reluctant freedom fighters taking on the army in Sergio Leone’s final spaghetti western., An earthy bandito and an Irish soldier of fortune with a penchant for explosives team to rob a bank in 1913 Mexico. When the hole blown in the bank wall frees dozens of political prisoners, the Irishman becomes a hero of the people., Drama set in Mexico during the Revolution. A bandit who’s planning a bank robbery recruits an IRA explosives expert on the run from the British, but the IRA man is more interested in helping the revolutionaries., Drama set in Mexico during the Revolution. A bandit who’s planning a bank robbery recruits an IRA explosives expert on the run from the English, but the IRA man is more interested in helping the revolutionaries., Originally titled Giù la Testa, Duck, You Sucker! is a Mexican-revolution yarn, filmed in Italy by spaghetti Western maven Sergio Leone. James Coburn is top-billed as John H. Mallory, an Irish soldier of fortune with a penchant for explosives. Rod Steiger plays Juan Miranda, another mercenary who wants to utilize Mallory’s specialty to blast into a bank. Despite his avaricious intentions, Miranda becomes a hero when the hole he blows in the bank wall frees dozens of political prisoners. Duck, You Sucker originally ran 150 minutes, with U.S. release prints heavily trimmed. Taking into consideration the previous “Man With No Name” films masterminded by Leone, the distributors of Duck, You Sucker! reissued the film as A Fistful of Dynamite., In Mexico at the time of the Revolution, Juan, the leader of a bandit family, meets Sean Mallory, an Ira explosives expert on the run from the British. Seeing Sean’s skill with explosives, Juan decides to persuade him to join the bandits in a raid on the great bank of Mesa Verde. Sean in the meantime has made contact with the revolutionaries, and intends to use his dynamite in their service., The results are explosive when an Irish terrorist teams up with a Mexican revolutionary in this action-packed tale of power and politics. Juan meets Seán Mallory, an IRA explosives expert on the run from the British. Juan decides to persuade him to join the bandits in a raid on the great bank of Mesa Verde.