Giù la testa ("Duck, You Sucker")

Rating: Null/10 (10 April 2000)

I don't normally like Westerns, but I have seen this one over thirty times! By now, Sergio Leone has become legendary. And as one of his last films, "Duck, You Sucker" goes out with a BANG! (Literally.)
Set in the early 1900s during the Mexican Revolution, James Coburn plays an Irish terrorist who has fled from Ireland (and is also wanted by the British Government for murder, and terrorism), and appears to be "mining" wrecklessly by pitching sticks of dynamite in every which direction. Rod Steiger, master of disguises ("No Way To Treat A Lady") plays a not-so-bright Mexican Bandido who tries to enlist Colburn's "pyrotechnical" talents to go into the banking business (i.e. do a bank heist).
Also cleverly disguised is the 'Banco de Mesa Verde' -- a bank used as a political prison. They both get swepped into the revolution (unwittingly on Steiger's part, but Coburn seems to be a veteran at this sort of thing), and the adventure continues. Possibly some of the best staged explosions (very realistic), and lots of action and suspense. Coburn is every bit of the cowboy Eastwood was (in Leone's earlier films), and more! Don't miss this one!