Giù la testa
Giù la testa (Italy 1971 / Director: Sergio Leone)
- 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) | Yuhino Gang-tachi (Japan) | Kapsy plné dynamitu (Czech Republic) | Hlavu dolů (Czech Republic) | سرتو بدزد رفیق (Iran)
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.