Il mio nome è Nessuno (1973)

Director:

Tonino Valerii

Writers:

Sergio Leone (idea)
Fulvio Morsella (story) ...

Release Date:

June 1974 (USA)

Genre:

Western | Comedy

Tagline:

Nobody, but "Nobody," knows the trouble he's in!

Plot:

A young, easygoing gunman (Hill) worships and competes with an old gunfighter (Fonda) who only wants to retire.

Plot Keywords:

Gunfighter | Gunslinger | Train | Cowboy | Showdown

Awards:

1 win

Cast

Terence Hill	...	Nessuno
Henry Fonda	...	Jack Beauregard
Jean Martin	...	Sullivan
R.G. Armstrong	...	Honest John (as R.K. Armstrong)
Karl Braun	...	Jim
Leo Gordon	...	Red
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)

Also Known As:

My Name Is Nobody (Philippines: English title) (USA)
Lonesome Gun (USA)
Mein Name ist Nobody (West Germany)
Mon nom est personne (France)

Runtime:

117 min | USA:111 min (TCM print)

Country:

Italy | France | West Germany

Language:

Italian

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Iceland:12 | Norway:16 (1974) | Brazil:Livre | Finland:K-16 | Norway:15 | Sweden:15 | USA:PG | West Germany:12 | UK:12 (2003) (uncut) | UK:A (1976) (cut) | Netherlands:12

Filming Locations:

905 and 915 Royal Street, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Company:

Rafran Cinematografica

Trivia:

Composer Ennio Morricone spoofs his own earlier Sergio Leone-helmed "Man with No Name" film scores with an over-the-top soundtrack, including shrill choral voices and a warbling whistle interwoven with a tinny recurring passage from Richard Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries". Also the soundtrack reuses part of "Frank"'s theme from C'era una volta il West (1968) for the shootout sequence.

Goofs:

Factual errors: The locomotive is shown to be a coal-burning type, but has a "diamond" stack of the type used on wood-burning locomotives to trap embers and sparks.

Quotes:

Nobody: [reads the names on the crosses in the Indian cemetery] Sam Peckinpah. That's a beautiful name in Navajo.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in The 'burbs (1989)

Soundtrack:

Buona fortuna, Jack

Nobody wants to be better than the best

When you have seen the film, you should notice that the plot is not about Nobody competing with Beauregard, but about the former wanting to become the biggest and fastest gunfighter of his time. In order to achieve this, he has set up a plan to kill the biggest gunfighter that exists, Jack Beauregard, but not before beefing up the latter's 'achievements'. Jack, wanting to retire, doesn't understand Nobody's fascination for him, and really doesn't want to compete with him. In the end Jack is tricked by Nobody in fighting his ultimate fight, alone against the 150 men strong Wild Bunch, turning him into a living legend. When Nobody then agrees with him (the scene necessarily missing from the film because the 'clou' is given at the end) to act as if he is 'killing' him in a much mediatised gunfight, he will no longer be known as Nobody but as 'the man that shot the living legend'. Following this, he therefore truly is the best gunfighter of them all, and Jack can retire because he is pronounced dead.

I have now seen 'My name is nobody' some ten times and for me it's the best film I've ever seen, mostly because of the fact that there is a perfect mix between humor and western, together with a perfect soundtrack and a very good picture of the West and its landscapes.