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Duck, You Sucker(Giù la testa)

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Italy, Spain · 1971
Rated PG · 2h 37m
Director Sergio Leone
Starring Rod Steiger, James Coburn, Romolo Valli, Maria Monti
Genre Western

At the beginning of the 1913 Mexican Revolution, greedy bandit Juan Miranda and idealist John H. Mallory, 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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TV Guide Magazine by

Well-plotted action, but as in most of Leone's films scenes seem to have been deleted from the American prints.

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The New York Times by A.O. Scott

The resultant mix of dreaminess, violence and politics is a bit unwieldy, but it sticks to your ribs. You'll savor pieces of Duck, You Sucker in your head much later: the mark of a work by a true voluptuary, the overspill in whose craft comes as much from enthusiasm as arrogance.

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Premiere by Aaron Hillis

At its most simplified, Sucker punches its way to the top of the Italian-western mountains, but never reaches the peak of its immortalized trilogy brethren.

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Village Voice by J. Hoberman

As ambitious as it is anachronistic, Duck, You Sucker demands to be read through the prism of World War II as well as 1968. Could this be the last movie in the great Italian tradition that began in 1945?

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