1973 ‘Il mio nome è Nessuno’ Directed by Tonino Valerii
Jack Beauregard, an ageing gunman of the Old West, only wants to retire in peace and move to Europe. But a young gunfighter, known as "Nobody", who idolizes Beauregard, wants him to go out in a blaze of glory. So he arranges for Jack to face the 150-man gang known as The Wild Bunch and earn his place in history.
Terence Hill Henry Fonda Jean Martin R. G. Armstrong Karl Braun Leo Gordon Steve Kanaly Geoffrey Lewis Neil Summers Piero Lulli Mario Brega Marc Mazza Benito Stefanelli Alexander Allerson Rainer Peets Antoine Saint-John Franco Angrisano Tommy Polgár Antonio Palombi Hubert Mittendorf Emil Feist Carla Mancini Luigi Antonio Guerra Angelo Novi Ullrich Müller Claus Schmidt Maurice Kowalewski
Το όνομα μου είναι Κανένας, Mit navn er Nobody, Mit navn er stadig Nobody, Меня зовут Никто, Meu Nome é Ninguém, Mon Nom Est Personne, Nimeni on Nobody, Nobody 1 - Mein Name ist Nobody
The story of the OG diehard toxic fanboy.
Based on an idea conjured up by Sergio Leone but featuring approximately zero of his talent behind the camera, My Name Is Nobody is an odd duck of a film which follows an aging gunslinger, played by Henry Fonda (who was similarly past his prime), as he tries desperately to retire but continuously finds himself being goaded by a wide-eyed and equally quick-shooting fan, played by baby-blue-eyed Terence Hill and coined “Nobody”, to end his career in style by going up against the 150-man Wild Bunch gang.
This movie is frustratingly strange in that it draws a distinct line in the sand between “Spaghetti Western” and “screwball comedy”, then brazenly hops from…
This is the way the spaghetti Western ends. Not with a bang, but a moron.
Kicking off with the peppy melody of an Ennio Morricone score that sounds right out of a soda commercial — it’s clear right off the bat that director Tonino Valerii is up to some clownery in “My Name is Nobody.”
The film, about a greenhorn (Terence Hill) egging on a legendary gunslinger (Henry Fonda) to show the speed of his draw and face down The Wild Bunch .... is moronic. Now, this isn’t necessarily a condemnation. I’ve known some very pleasant morons in my time.
The ‘wah wah’ stand-off music hits a little too hard, Fonda is just a little too pathetic to be called…
Why I watched this movie? This is one of my favorite westerns of all-time. Way back when....networks used to have a movie of the week. This used to be the only time the public could see certain movies...as home entertainment (DVDs, NetFlix, Clouds) did not exist. Well My Name Is Nobody is one of the movies that used to come on tv every few years.....and it became one of my favorites.
What is this one about? Terrence Hill plays a young, easygoing gunman that worships and competes with Henry Fonda. Fonda plays an old gunfighter who only wants to retire.
Some of the Reasons I Love This Movie:
1. Terrence Hill is awesome as Nobody....one of the coolest movie characters…
An ageing gunslinger (Henry Fonda) looking to retire, is followed by an obsessed fan (Terence Hill) who is attempting to orchestrate a climactic battle between his hero and a 150-man-gang known as the Wild Bunch.
In youth, I was generally dismissive of My Name Is Nobody - pre-net days making it difficult to get filmmaking narratives that didn't suggest Tonino Valerii was a Poltergeist Tobe Hooper to Leone's Spielberg. While both arguments can be more readily dismissed now, one would still see this as a Leone film - and compared to his pillars of the Spaghetti subgenre, a light comedy isn't going to stack up. In fairness, many involved in the production were pushing for these comparisons, with Morricone even…
Tonino Valerii's Day of Anger was the film that kicked off my Spaghetti Western journey a couple of weeks ago, and I was quite happy to indulge in another of Valerii's films with My Name is Nobody, which might just be my favourite Spaghetti Western so far? Featuring a 68 year old Henry Fonda as the big name American star, this film is really all about Nobody, played with terrific comic timing by Terence Hill who steals the limelight from the Hollywood legend.
Henry Fonda's Jack Beauregard is an aging gunslinger aiming to retire to Europe and live out his days in peace. His name however attracts the usual array of young guns and bounty hunters looking to make a…
An exceptionally silly western. The thematic concerns are right there in the title—it's all about names and reputations and legacies and how they overpower the fleshy human beings to which they're attached—but comedy comes first here, and in that regard the film was a bit hit or miss for me. On the one hand, there are some well executed slapstick and physical comedy bits; on the other, there's some broad humor that just didn't really appeal to me.
There's one scene where the joke is supposed to be (I think) that a train stops to pick up a bunch of gold, the conductor gets off to take a piss, and Terence Hill follows him into the…
One of those passing of the torch films, but this seemed a bit more cheeky than most. Terence Hill is as charming as ever, and Henry Fonda is solid as the elder gunslinger. Their interplay is a tad obnoxious and blunt at times, really driving home the generational gap (and Fonda's closing monologue spells it out), but it's certainly a good time to watch all the same. The blatant digs at Peckinpah are a little direct as well, but I appreciate those--it's not that I dislike Peckinpah, but I can see where the filmmakers are coming from.
I could have done without some of the more crude humor, and the super fast motion effects, despite being there to make a…
“Nothing funny about death.”
Sergio Leone presents…A Fistful of Tomfoolery. Appropriately, “national monument” Henry Fonda’s swan song in the genre. A near silent open, with just the ticking of a clock and the scraping of a straight razor on stubble. Essentially, the Terence Hill trick shot show that turns into a bittersweet tale of generational changes. Plot doesn’t really kick in ‘til halfway through. Before that it’s more a montage of Hill being a goofball—shooting out stilts, playing extended drinking games, stealing apples from babies.
“Nobody” (Hill) is looking to send our legendary gunslinger (Fonda) off into the sunset. And 150 nameless, faceless “sons of bitches on horseback” are stomping through the west like a plague. Lucky shit. Morricone provides…
'Mein Name ist Nobody' ist eine wunderbare Western-Komödie mit Terence Hill und Henry Fonda!
Einer der vielleicht besten Filme die Terence Hill je 'alleine' gemacht hat!
Hill und Fonda sind ein tolles Team!
Der eine versorgt den Film mit sehr viel Witz, wärend der andere dafür sorgt, dass das ganze nicht zu lächerlich wird!
Für die Fans ein Freudenfest!
Ich mochte als kleiner Bube lieber die Filme mit Terence Hill UND Bud Spencer!
Das hat sich auch nicht geändert!
