Giù la testa
Giù la testa (Italy 1971 / Director: Sergio Leone)
Contents:
- Runtime: 157 min
- Release Date: 29.10.1971
- Filming Locations: Almería
Also known as
Duck, You Sucker (U.S.A) | A Fistful of Dynamite (U.S.A) | Todesmelodie (Germany) | C'era una volta la rivoluzione (Italia) | Los héroes de Mesa Verde (Argentina) | Érase una vez la revolución (Argentina) | ¡Agáchate, maldito! (Spain) | Once upon a time... the revolution (USA) | Il était une fois... la révolution (France) | Aguenta-te, canalha (Portugal) | Quando explode a vingança (Brazil) | Garść dynamitu (Poland) | Maahan, senkin hölmö (Finland) | Ducka skitstövel (Sweden) | För nàgra nävar dynamit (Sweden) | Il était une fois la revolution (French Canadian) | Duk dig fjols (Denmark) | Kato ta kefalia (Greece) | Sagni se naivcina (Serbia) | Za saku dinamita (Serbia) | 夕陽のギャングたち Yuhino Gang-tachi (Japan) | Kapsy plné dynamitu (Czech Republic) | Hlavu dolů (Czech Republic) | سرتو بدزد رفیق (Iran) | Шепа динамит (Bulgaria) | Имало едно време революция (Bulgaria alternative title)
Cast and Crew
- Cast: James Coburn (Sean/John H. Mallory), Rod Steiger (Juan Miranda), Romolo Valli (Doctor Villega), Maria Monti (Adelita), Rik Battaglia (Santerna), Franco Graziosi (governor), Antoine Saint-John (as Jean-Michel Antoine)(Colonel Reza), Vivienne Chandler (Irish girlfriend), John Frederick (American coach passenger), Aldo Sambrell (firing squad Captain), Romano Milani (Mesa Verde bank prisoner), more ...
- Screenplay: Sergio Leone, Sergio Donati, Luciano Vincenzoni
- Cinematography: Giuseppe Ruzzolini [Technicolor - Techniscope 2,35:1]
- Music: Ennio Morricone
- Producer: Fulvio Morsella
Story
John Mallory (Coburn), an IRA explosives specialist joins the Mexican bandit Juan (Steiger) in his quest to rob the bank of Mesa Verde. What Juan thinks is a nice joint venture to get rich, quickly turns out to become an operation for the revulutionary cause, and the two are being drawn into a fight against the Mexican army, treason and violence, the fight bearing painful similarities to Mallory's IRA past. The two form an unlikely but true friendship that is tested by a fight that is anything but simple.
Trivia
Originally, Giancarlo Santi was meant to direct this, but exited shortly after start of production, because the US stars insisted on Sergio Leone directing himself.
Versions
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