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My Name Is Nobody (1973)
Il mio nome è Nessuno (original title)
Director: Tonino Valerii
Writers: Sergio Leone (idea), Fulvio Morsella (story)
Cast: Terence Hill, Henry Fonda, Jean Martin
Genre: Comedy Spagetti Western
My Name Is Nobody (1973)
Il mio nome è Nessuno (original title)
Director: Tonino Valerii
Writers: Sergio Leone (idea), Fulvio Morsella (story)
Cast: Terence Hill, Henry Fonda, Jean Martin
Genre: Comedy Spagetti Western
A young oddball gunfighter (Terence Hill) with a strange sense of humor takes to following an older gunfighter (Henry Fonda) around the wild west. 'Nobody' worships the older gunfighter and at the same time keeps challenging him...whilst the older gunfighter only wants to take a boat ride and retire in peace. CR
Produced by spaghetti western king, Sergio Leone, My Name is Nobody, takes the earlier works of Leone and adds a comic twist to it. I was going to say it lampoons the earlier spaghetti westerns, but that's not really what the film is about. It's more of a serious comedy or perhaps it's more wacky than the proceeding westerns by Leone. One thing is for sure this film seems like something Quentin Tarantino would have made. As it features intent of style over substances. It works, but at 2 hours the quirkiness begins to wear thin.
On the hand, this has some of the most amazing sets used in a western. Especially the Native American village on top of a mesa. I was impressed with what looked like an actual silver mine operation, I'd say that was a real location. There's some funny odd stuff, and Henry Fonda is good as the aging & wishing to return in peace, gun fighter. And I guess Terrance Hill was suitable wacky as the young strange-stranger who wants to turn the old gun fighter into a living legend....so he can be in the history books.
Watch it if you are wanting to see something a bit different. Just remember the English version is dubbed, and only Henry Fonda did his own voice, which adds to the quirkiness.
On the hand, this has some of the most amazing sets used in a western. Especially the Native American village on top of a mesa. I was impressed with what looked like an actual silver mine operation, I'd say that was a real location. There's some funny odd stuff, and Henry Fonda is good as the aging & wishing to return in peace, gun fighter. And I guess Terrance Hill was suitable wacky as the young strange-stranger who wants to turn the old gun fighter into a living legend....so he can be in the history books.
Watch it if you are wanting to see something a bit different. Just remember the English version is dubbed, and only Henry Fonda did his own voice, which adds to the quirkiness.