10 Criminally Underrated Westerns You Must See Before You Die
2. Duck, You Sucker! (A Fistful Of Dynamite)
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While it could be construed as being disingenuous to label any of Leone's films 'underrated', there are certain examples where the director's classics get forgotten. When it comes to the Dollars Trilogy it's the second entry, For a Few Dollars More, that gets this treatment, but when it comes to Leone's Once Upon a Time saga, it's the unfortunately titled Duck, You Sucker! that is similarly overlooked.
Also known as A Fistful of Dynamite and Once Upon a Time... the Revolution, Leone's tale of the 1910 Mexican Revolution is a forgotten classic and a film that deserves to be held alongside his most revered productions, including The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, as well as Once Upon a Time in the West.
Following a former IRA revolutionary (James Coburn) and a Mexican bandit (Rod Steiger) as they unwittingly become heroes of Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata's struggle against the Mexican government, Duck, You Sucker! is sprawling, epic, and a technical masterpiece sandwiched by two other extraordinary films. Definitely watch it if you haven't.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
