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)
Mitt namn är Nobody (Finland: Swedish title) (Sweden) [sv]
Eg heiter Nobody (Norway) [no]
Mein Name ist Nobody (Austria) [de]
Mi nombre es Ninguno (Spain) [es]
Mi nombre es nadie (Argentina) [es]
Mit navn er Nobody (Denmark) [da]
Nevem: Senki (Hungary) [hu]
Nimeni on Nobody (Finland) [fi]
T'onoma mou einai Kanenas (Greece) [el]

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: It's always the best who are the first to go.
Jack Beauregard: Which means you ain't going nowhere.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Dead Man (1995)

Soundtrack:

Mucchio selvaggio

The Good, the Bad and the Good looking

Great movie. From an idea of Sergio Leone, the guy from the good, bad and ugly trilogy. Terence hill is awesome. Fonda is himself. truly a great movie, in the best of the A-class spaghetti western tradition. Recommend for lovers of bud Spencer and Terence hill, but even more for lovers of Clint Eastwood and Sergio Leone and Ennio Morricone. the soundtrack is also fantastic. I found brilliant the way the director combined the lightheartedness of Hill and the stare-down gunfight angle of traditional Eastwood westerns. Also look for they called him trinity and sequel, also great movie, and those include bud Spencer. The movie is actually filmed in New Mexico, Acoma and surroundings, so the scenery is also fantastic. The original language is English, even though most of the cast is Italian, and both the Italian and English version are great. However, in the best spaghetti tradition I believe the Italian might capture some fine details better than the original. Ultimately I believe Terence Hill could have become a famous star of the caliber of Eastwood had he pursued that path instead of continuing the career as Bud Spencer's partner in crime.