Duck, You Sucker (aka A Fistful of Dynamite) (2-Disc Collector's Edition)

I am a big fan of James Coburn and this may be his best movie. I should have known that Sergio Leone was behind this! Coburn plays an Irish freedom fighter-some of the reviewers slander him by calling him a terrorist-who is forced to kill his best friend when he betrays the Irish Brotherhood to the Black and Tans. Coburn's charector is a true revolutionary-in one scene he is reading the great anarchist Baukunin's "On Patriotism". He winds up in revolutionary Mexico where he befriends a bandit leader who joins the revolution by default-he and his clan are in opposition to the authorities, so he winds up fighting against them as a revolutionary himself.Americans should note the diffference between the Mexican Civil War and the American Civil War-in Mexico, as in most revolutions, wholesale murder the way things are done. Coburn's performance is sentimental, but he's playing a charector of Irish background,joined with Mexicans-some of the most sentimental races on earth. Steiger's performance is also brillliant. It is a shame this movie isn't better known. God bless Coburn, a brilliant actor who played everthing from faux secret agents to a killer to a doomed German sargent on the Eastern Front. We miss you, James-God bless you.

entertaining but not as good as the other movies in the series, the pacing it off slightly

The major destiny in this film brings Sean, John, Juan, Johnny and Johnny to a revolution in Mexico. A revolution by rich people, like the American Revolution from 1775 to whenever the British gave up and did not come back until 1812, can actually accomplish something. Even a poor person's revolt, like the French Revolution of 1789 until the terror in 1993 can accomplish something for rich people who need to rid a country of the aristocracy that impedes capitalistic accumulation, according to George Bataille in The Accursed Share, volume one (it is a book, and the beginning of a series). Juan is more interested in gold, money, and dynamite than in political prisoners, but when the political prisoners appear he seems to feel they are worthless people.

I liked the commentary on how slow this movie goes compared to other Westerns and how a scene was cut so people would not get up and walk out of the movie due to having sexuality betrayed. Volume Two of the Accursed Share is on eroticism, and we are lucky that this movie is so old, none of the political prisoners had panties on their heads.

A fine CD with excellent narration if one likes that. Fascinating story of the Mexican revolution with excellent production values, 1st rate cast even if Eli Wallach is missing. The origin of somewhat bizarre title is hilarious.

This DVD never got to me. I checked with my post office and it's vanished, apparently into thin air. I don't know what happened, except that I'm out $25 or so and have no DVD. I've wanted to see this for a few years now and am still not able to. I ain't happy.