Duck You Sucker

[Henry]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067140/combined 

I hadn't seen "Duck, You Sucker" when this first came around on the P-Liste guitar, but I saw it last night (Netfix [sic]) and:

1. IRA dynamiter on the lam in Mexico diverts from using his dynamite in support of (silver) mining (or did he just say he was going to the mines as a cover?) to using it in the Mexican Revolution.  He rides a motorcycle.

2. A German mercenary is the scourge of the state; he rides an armored vehicle with automatic weapons

3. More dynamiting for the revolutionary purposes than any other movie

Lotta nice little moments, many of which are (marginally) Pynchon-relevant, e.g. John H. Mallory, dynamite and nitro strapped to his long-coat, in response to being threatened with a gun, "If you shoot me down, they will have to change all the maps..."

Worth seeing for Steiger, Coburn, the German and his vehicle, and the dynamite, brought to you by Sergio Leone in '71, a few years after "Once Upon a Time in the West"

HENRY MUSIKAR
Information, Media, and Technology Consultant

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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On Behalf Of Dave Monroe
Sent: Friday, December 07, 2007 7:16 PM
To: rich
Cc: pynchon -l
Subject: Re: Duck You Sucker

On Dec 7, 2007 8:22 AM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:

> there is a scene in Leone's Duck You Sucker which takes place during
> the Mexican Revolution in the early 20th century where James Coburn,
> who plays an irish nationalist on the run, rigs up a train with
> explosives to collide head on with an oncoming train filled with
> government soldiers--this maybe a pretty common occurrence in movies
> of this type but it does parallel pretty well the scene where Frank
> does the same in AtD
>
> it's an interesting picture for those who haven't seen it
>
> "when I started using dynamite I believed in a lot of things. Now, I
> only believe in dynamite"

John H. Mallory: I used to believe in many things, all of it! Now, I
believe only in dynamite.

http://imdb.com/title/tt0067140/quotes

Giù la testa (1971)

http://imdb.com/title/tt0067140/

E.g., ...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=3KhbM_ZG_p0
http://youtube.com/watch?v=tGtuRf2J7Ko
http://youtube.com/watch?v=49z2lDvelQQ
http://youtube.com/watch?v=KVS6NQr0YP8
http://youtube.com/watch?v=8-cZWVChgYk
http://youtube.com/watch?v=OsAnyUpRm94