Talk:Duck, You Sucker!

Title

I know this movie goes by two names, but if we go by the IMDb standard, the title should be "Duck, You Sucker" (not as good as "Fistful of Dynamite" IMHO.) --funkychinaman 18:24, 3 July 2010 (UTC)

Actually the film was originally titled "A Fistful of Dynamite" for the American market, but the studio decided to 'funk up' the original Italian title and PROMOTED during its first run as "Duck You Sucker" and that was a financial disaster for the movie. Everyone thought it was some sort of "funky" "hip" "parody" of the classic western. Talk about a craptacularly bad marketing decision! This is the film which everyone pretty much attributes to Sergio Leone never getting a big budget again, even though it was not his fault. MoviePropMaster2008 00:48, 29 July 2010 (UTC)

"duck, you sucker" is the uncensored translation of the original title which is "giù la testa". It refers to the sentence that john says to juan before the explosion (giù la testa, coglione). Here in Italy they cut the word coglione (sucker) from the title because they thought it was too rude; I think they did the same in english speaking countries but they change the entire title making it more similar to "a fistful of dollar" from the same director (Sergio Leone)

Astra 400

Doesn't James Coburn use an Astra 400 pistol in this? It's been years since I've seen it but I seem to remember him with one. - Nyles