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Duck, You Sucker
ITALY · 1971

Duck, You Sucker

Sergio Leone
Mexican Revolution bank heist unlikely partnership political prisoners dynamite/explosives
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Synopsis

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

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