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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 and starring Rod Steiger, James Coburn and Romolo Valli. It is the second film of Leone's Once Upon a Time Trilogy, which includes the previous Once Upon a Time in the West, and the subsequent Once Upon a Time in America.

Plot
In 1913, during the Mexican Revolution of the 1910s, a 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.

Why It Rocks

 * 1) Amazing cinematography.
 * 1) Amazing cinematography.
 * 1) Amazing cinematography.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) Just like Once Upon a Time in the West when it was released in the US released, the film only ran shorter for 121 minutes in the US release, which is still bad. Many scenes were cut because they were deemed too violent, profane, or politically sensitive, including a quote from Mao Zedong about the nature of revolutions and class struggle.

Reception
On its debut, the film received negative reviews from critics, compared to Leone's other films, winning him only a David di Donatello for Best Director. However, the film's reception was changed to positive reviews. It has a 92% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 24 reviews; the critical consensus reads "Duck, You Sucker is a saucy helping of spaghetti western, with James Coburn and Rod Steiger's chemistry igniting the screen and Sergio Leone's bravura style on full display".