Never Trust a Title: A Fistful of Dynamite - a title imposed on the film in the US - alludes to the earlier film by Leone, which led many viewers to expect something akin to The Dollars Trilogy. Together they plan to rob banks. Sean has come to his rescue. Stream ad-free or purchase CD's and MP3s now on Amazon.co.uk. Government troops are hot on their trail. Also known as Duck, You Sucker, a catchphrase Coburn’s character throws out before blowing things up, A Fistful of Dynamite is the most underrated of Leone’s films but is the equal of his best. Juan is captured. In fact this one is completely different. It also comes with a host of extras such as commentary and interviews with Leone experts Alex Cox, Sir Christopher Frayling and Kim Newman, and Leone associate and Dynamite co-writer Sergio Donati, but best of all is a 60 page book wherein writer Simon Ward delivers an essay about Leone alongside an exhaustive history and overview of the film and its music from spaghetti western expert Howard Hughes, leaving no stone unturned. Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically. Indeed, given recent events, A Fistful of Dynamite is a thoroughly pertinent film, asking how we might achieve social change when the only human resource to hand is venal and self-serving. It also analyses reviews to verify trustworthiness. Music by Ennio Morricone. We use cookies and similar tools to enhance your shopping experience, to provide our services, understand how customers use our services so we can make improvements, and display ads. A low-life bandit and an I.R.A. I.e. The most intriguing aspect of A Fistful Of Dynamite for me is its several brief, slow-motion flashbacks of Sean to Ireland. Get a weekly digest of our critical highlights in your inbox each Thursday! Set in a preposterously idealised soft focus Ireland, the viewer is offered vignettes of love and betrayal set to one of Ennio Morricone’s most gorgeous, if over-the-top pieces. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Indeed, the whole film is a career peak for Morricone. Indeed, given recent events, A Fistful of Dynamite is a thoroughly pertinent film, asking how we might achieve social change when the only human resource to hand is venal and self-serving. Below: Watch the trailer for A Fistful of Dynamite. Sean's pre-dynamiting cry is, "Duck, you sucker!" At the request of a revolutionary, Sean agrees to blast into a bank...but, to Juan's disgust, the "bank" is now a prison. Approved third parties also use these tools in connection with our display of ads. Of his westerns, it’s baroque style is clunkier than the pure fantasy of the Dollars trilogy, and not as cinematically composed as Once Upon a Time in the West, but it has an edge, an internal vim, that is all its own. Sean's pre-dynamiting cry is, "Duck, you sucker!" Copyright © 2020 Apple Inc. All rights reserved. Then you have the italian language credits on version 3 on disc 2 but the film is still in English with a stereo soundtrack and is the exact same cut. Sean and Juan are now heroes of the revolution! A Fistful of Dynamite dates from 1971 and there are many edits of it out there, most of them shorter than the full two hours and 37 minutes (this writer has seen one on TV that, unbelievably, shaves off the crucial pay-off line at the end!). Indeed, the whole film is a career peak for Morricone. Government troops are hot on their trail. The crux of it is that Sean is slowly drawn into fighting for the cause, dragging Juan along with him, the latter gleefully milking every situation for opportunities to make money. Sean is haunted by his past, rendered in flashback. explosives expert rebel against the government and become heroes of the Mexican Revolution.