Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #10492 in DVD
• Released on: 2005-04-18
• Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
• Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
• Formats: Anamorphic, Box set, Dubbed, PAL, Special Edition
• Original language: English, French
• Subtitled in: Dutch, French
• Dubbed in: French
• Number of discs: 2
• Running time: 157 minutes

DVD Description
MEXICAN BANDIT JUAN WANTS EXPLOSIVES EXPERT SEAN TO JOIN HIM IN A RAID ON THE BANK.

Synopsis
A fugitive IRA revolutionary and a brutal bandit team up to rob a Mexican bank which doubles as a jail for political prisoners.

Customer Reviews

Another masterpiece from Sergio!!!
'A fistfull of Dynamite', or 'Duck You Sucker!' as it may be better known as elsewhere ranks among one of Sergio Leone's best pieces of filmaking and as one of the best spaghetti westerns of all time!!!
James Coburn and Rod Steiger provide great onscreen characters whos personalities and backgrounds are beautifully explored in detail set in the backdrop of the Mexican revolution and in particular Coburn's character is explored deeply, enhanced by Leone's supurb use of flashbacks to tell us his story!
With enhanced picture and sound, which is fantastic with explosions abound, this DVD as with Leone's other westerns are worth their weight in gold!
Another great score by Morricone as usual, tops the film off as fantastic!!!
Highly recommended to Spaghetti western and Leone fans!!!

You'd Be A Sucker NOT To Buy This!
Each of the four Sergio Leone films I have seen so far are all fantastic and have great depth yet are all drastically different.
Fistful Of Dollars bacause of the stirring soundtrack and opening sequence, strong use of colours, cast and non-stop excitment from beginning to middle to end (plus heaps more!)
For A Few Dollars More incorperates all of these things and yet is extremly atmospheric in all it's scenes in a way that differs from it's predeccesor in a way hard to explain but is very apparent; noteable, to me in a majority for it's set design.
Once Upon A Time In The West has four superb performancs from each of it's main pro/antagonists and is notorious for it's slow paced run time that holds the viewer through out, therefore the viewer endures the movie along with the characters. It also has a beautiful and moving score.
A Fistful Of Dynamite (or Duck You Sucker or Once Upon A Time...The Revolution-it's most fitting title) is by far the most quirky, innovative, political and is very extrovertly idiosyncratic.
The performances by the two main leads are fantastic, sympathy switching from one to the other as you learn more about their characters (The DVD "origional" version helps with this, and the story) and there are definitly some controversial touches throughout.
Rife with comedy, pathos and action and quite a bit different to the Dollars, foremost because of the time it is set: 1913 (even a primitive motorbike turns up) so no tumbleweed settings and lonley terraced sallon border-towns with ten-pace shoot outs.
But definitly explosive and realistic with a great sense of fantasy as a foyle for the realism.
I could write for ages about Leone's movies and have a lot more to say about this one.
But to end, I would say that the DVD features are perfect; the usual and thoroughly enjoyable interview with Sir. Christopher Frayling and the absolutly essential "Sorting out the Versions" featurette which helps more than words can say.
I recommend this DVD to everyone. The swearing is unusually funny and moving at times as well.
The last Spagetti Western.
Perfect!

132 minutes? Then it's not the whole movie.
Recently I bought this DVD as I hoped that Amazon.co.uk had got the running time wrong, and I'm glad I did. This is indeed the fully restored version with all the trimmings. It's not 132 minutes as Amazon incorrectly lists it. It's more like 150 minutes. Thank goodness it's finally available in its full glory. Hopefully Amazon will correct the misleading technical details listing on this site so that others aren't confused as I was.

In the interests of full disclosure I've left my original review below:

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It's great that they released a 'special edition' version of this film, but if it's missing the scenes that were in the original theatre version it's not the whole movie. As with all the other DVD versions this one is missing all the 'political' scenes, so you get a version without the original movie's context. Seems to me like this is just a cynical attempt to re-release the same flawed version to make some extra cash. Give us the full version in its original state!