Cinema, Marxism and Dynamite: Sergio Leone, the Revolutionary Director

Duck, You Sucker! is a 1971 film, Sergio Leone’s penultimate film and the most ambiguous of his entire filmography. It is an atypical western, centered on the Mexican Revolution, which has as its protagonists two characters who apparently have very little to do with that specific revolutionary context: a clumsy and ragged bandit named Juan Miranda, and John H. “Sean” Mallory, a cultured and educated Irish bomber, with a past in the ranks of the …