My Name Is Nobody

Original title: Il mio nome è Nessuno

1973
PG
1h 56m

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Buddy Comedy Spaghetti Western Comedy Drama Western

A young, easy-going gunman worships and competes with a famed gunfighter, insisting that he must face down a gang of 150 outlaws before he can retire.A young, easy-going gunman worships and competes with a famed gunfighter, insisting that he must face down a gang of 150 outlaws before he can retire.A young, easy-going gunman worships and competes with a famed gunfighter, insisting that he must face down a gang of 150 outlaws before he can retire.

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Terence Hill

Nessuno

Henry Fonda

Jack Beauregard

Jean Martin

Sullivan

R.G. Armstrong

Honest John
(as R.K. Armstrong)

Karl Braun

Leo Gordon

Steve Kanaly

False Barber

Geoffrey Lewis

Leader of the Wild Bunch

Neil Summers

Squirrel

Piero Lulli

Sheriff

Mario Brega

Pedro

Marc Mazza

Don John
(as Mark Mazza)

Benito Stefanelli

Porteley

Alexander Allerson

Rainer Peets

Big Gun
(as Remus Peets)

Antoine Saint-John

Scape
(as Antoine Saint John)

Franco Angrisano

Ferroviere

Tommy Polgár

Juan

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Trivia
While walking through Boot Hill, Nobody points out to Beauregard that one of the names on a gravestone is Sam Peckinpah. That same year, Clint Eastwood, in High Plains Drifter (1973), had a Boot Hill scene that included Sergio Leone's tombstone, as well as a number of others.

Goofs
As Nobody and Jack face off in the New Orleans street,a window air-conditioner (draped with canvas) and what looks like an electric window fan can be seen on the side of the "Hotel" in the background.

Quotes
Jack Beauregard: Folks that throw dirt on you aren't always trying to hurt you, and folks that pull you out of a jam aren't always trying to help you. But the main point is when you're up to your nose in shit, keep your mouth shut.

Alternate versions
The initial US home video release through KVC Home Video used the original Titanus (Italian) print with the English dialog track used for the US theatre release. This meant that although the dialog was in English, the main title and all credits were in Italian.

Connections
Edited into Get Mean (1975)

Soundtracks
Il Mio Nome E' Nessuno (My Name Is Nobody) (Main Title)
Written and Performed by Ennio Morricone And His Orchestra

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Into the valley of death rode the 150

This spaghetti-in-cheek western from Sergio Leone and crew (direction credit went to Leone protégé Tonino Valerii) opens with déjà vu. Haven't we seen Henry Fonda getting shaved before, wondering if the barber's going to slit his throat?

Referencing his own "Once Upon a Time in the West" of five years earlier, idea-man Leone also pays satirical homage to perhaps the bloodiest western in history by inserting "the wild bunch" into this film as a band of one hundred, fifty men who appear only and repeatedly as a thundering herd in Leone-signature panoramas, accompanied by another impressive Ennio Morricone score, a herd which would-be greatest gunslinger, Nobody, proposes that Fonda's character face single-handedly to get him into the history books before Nobody draws him down. (Making the reference explicit, Nobody reads "Sam Peckinpah" off a grave marker in the scene leading to the first appearance here of "the wild bunch.")

As derivative as this movie may be, it's still enjoyable for its performances, its photography, its score, its style, its "twist" ending, its speed-up scenes which give Nobody's antics a silent Chaplin hearkening, and its one-off take on the spaghetti western which Leone made popular.