A tragicomic western, Leone's third best.

Rating: Null/10 (26 November 2006)

Sergio Leone, probably due to the great financial success of "For a Fistful of Dollars" could afford to do whatever he wanted and "Duck, You Sucker" is a consequence of that. It is a very personal film, and much more suitable to be seen on a DVD at home, where you can see again and again certain scenes, up to the point where you you think you grasped it. The first sequence, where poor Juan (Rod Steiger) goes into a giant stagecoach full of upper class rich people is pure comedy.From the caricature way they bash the poor, you know they are in for trouble. Those people on the stagecoach seem to belong much more to a Visconti film then to a western. After this comic sequence, the film will slowly start becoming a tragedy. Mallory (James Coburn) shows up, an expert in dynamite, and they join forces. Juan is unwillingly fighting for the revolution, in his own mind all he wants is money. Mallory (Irish) has been traumatized by his past, and he acts like a man who does not care if he is dead or alive. After TGTBTU and OUTITW this is Leone's best film.