If you haven't seen it Netflix it or buy it because it is worthwhile. I would rank it up there with The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (and if you haven't seen that, then quit being a communist and buy it now). Stars James Coburn and Rod Stieger and is a LONG one. There's no lack of action, and the character development is akin to the quality of The Good, the Bad and The Ugly. Music is also great.
Here is the original trailer
It's on Netflix streaming under the "Duck, You Sucker" title.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite was always "Once Upon A Time In The West".
same director, the great Sergio Leone
ReplyDeletebut "the good, the bad, the ugly" remains my favourite, with she best scene of movies history ever in Sad Hill Cemetery
Neither titles available for streaming on Netflix in Canada...
ReplyDeleteWe are always 10 to 15 years behind you guys....
Neither titles available for streaming on Netflix in Canada...
ReplyDeleteWe are always 10 to 15 years behind you guys....
The whole genre was awesome entertainment. And Steiger who featured in the four-part doco on the pacific campaign of World War II was so much more than just an actor:
ReplyDeletehttp://watchdocumentary.org/watch/hell-in-the-pacific-episode-02-purgatory-video_7ebaca5b7.html
Rod Steiger was a real man who had lived real suffering and got on with the business of living without phobias. And he did so like so many of his era, unlike phonies today such as Matt Damon.
A great reminder, Captain.
I haven't seen that since it was in theaters, but I still remember it fondly (albeit with few details).
ReplyDeleteHere's my favorite scene from that film where the bandit tells off the socialist:
ReplyDeleteJuan Miranda: I know what I am talking about when I am talking about the revolutions. The people who read the books go to the people who can't read the books, the poor people, and say, "We have to have a change." So, the poor people make the change, ah? And then, the people who read the books, they all sit around the big polished tables, and they talk and talk and talk and eat and eat and eat, eh? But what has happened to the poor people? They're dead! That's your revolution. Shhh... So, please, don't tell me about revolutions! And what happens afterwards? The same fucking thing starts all over again!
John H. Mallory: [exhales] Whew. Hmmm. [throws a book he was reading into the mud: Mikhael A. Bakunin, The Patriotism]
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Here's my favorite scene from that film where the bandit tells off the socialist:
ReplyDeleteJuan Miranda: I know what I am talking about when I am talking about the revolutions. The people who read the books go to the people who can't read the books, the poor people, and say, "We have to have a change." So, the poor people make the change, ah? And then, the people who read the books, they all sit around the big polished tables, and they talk and talk and talk and eat and eat and eat, eh? But what has happened to the poor people? They're dead! That's your revolution. Shhh... So, please, don't tell me about revolutions! And what happens afterwards? The same fucking thing starts all over again!
John H. Mallory: [exhales] Whew. Hmmm. [throws a book he was reading into the mud: Mikhael A. Bakunin, The Patriotism]
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