My Name Is Nobody

1974 "Nobody, but "Nobody," knows the trouble he's in!"
7.3| 1h57m| PG| en| More Info
Released: 01 June 1974 Released
Producted By: Rafran Cinematografica
Country: Italy
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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.

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SnoopyStyle Jack Beauregard (Henry Fonda) is an old gunslinger who is reputed to be the fastest. Nobody (Terence Hill) follows the legendary killer and wants him to face off against a 150 men strong Wild Bunch gang singlehanded. The Wild Bunch are a gang of bandits who fight for a mastermind who wants Beauregard dead.This starts off very slowly. If this didn't have Sergio Leone's name attached to it, I might have abandoned it early on. Henry Fonda doesn't strike me as the hardened killer type. He's too much of a nice guy. Terence Hill doesn't have great individual persona. He's playing the character as a jokester, but it never actually gets to be funny. He's a strange character. Then the movie gets strange when they get to the saloon.There is the weird slap fight in the bar. I can safely say that I have never seen such a thing especially in a spaghetti western. This is a slapstick spaghetti western. It's definitely unique. Even the music is a strange concoction of weird effects with classic spaghetti western music. It's as if the movie is mocking the genre itself, but it's not good enough to be a parody.
A_Different_Drummer First problem, Leone, possibly one of the greatest living directors of the last century, produced but did not direct. Second problem, by this time the so called "italian western" genre was imploding, and tending toward self-mockery. Usually that is the beginning of the end of any new art form, and here we see the destruction first-hand. Fonda is great. I mean, he starts out great -- THIS IS HENRY FONDA -- and just gets better. Better here even than ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST, where a reviewer for Playboy referred to him as "ludicrously miscast." Hill -- and don't believe for a moment that was the name he was born with -- is adequate but ultimately forgettable. In fact, the most memorable thing about this film -- aside from Fonda -- is the notion, appealing mainly to film buffs, that the entire concept was structured on a "high concept" title. "Nobody was faster." That's the takeaway here.
Tuco Ramirez I think of this movie in thirds. The first third and last third of this movie are fine. The middle third is where it gets bogged down, especially with slapstick scenes that are out of place and gratuitous. Don't blame Terrence Hill or Henry Fonda, they defined the roles and played them well. In fact, all of Hill's slapstick scenes were well played, it's just that most of them didn't belong in this type of movie, which was NOT, strictly speaking, a comedy, nor was it supposed to be one. Reading the other reviews, it seems that it was supposed to be a parody of the spaghetti western genre. This was probably a mistake. Anyway, for it to be successful, it had to stand out on its own which it failed to do. This movie could have been a good one if it took itself more seriously. Unfortunately, the plot was not fully developed with regards to Fonda's character and the mine, it was just hastily explained. This occurred along with the majority of slapstick scenes in the middle of the movie. The saloon scene was not believable. I don't think much of scenes where a character can drink massive amounts of hard liquor and still function okay. Sorry, not humanly possible. The fun house scene was just stupid and unnecessary. Hill and Fonda prevail, but really, gunfights in the dark? Think about it. There was the outdoor urinal scene with Hill and the train conductor, but this was not slapstick, it was your typical spaghetti western situation with a brief comedic moment and a resolution. It was well acted by both Hill and the train conductor. If you like the genre, this movie is still worth watching. It is too bad that Sergio Leone didn't take total control and treat this as another true spaghetti western with some additional parody elements. The script is fairly original, after all. In addition to weak plot development, the trademark Leone attention to detail was lacking. Why was Fonda wearing such a shabby coat? Fonda was believable in his role, but didn't look as imposing as in his previous role in Once Upon a Time in the West. I found out he was about 67 when he was in this movie! He looked really good for 67, the least they could have done was give him a better western wardrobe. In the part of the movie that shows the ship's sailors, I wondered if they were in San Francisco, instead of New Orleans. Does New Orleans ever get so cold that you see people wear sweaters and wool caps? Even the great Ennio Morricone was off in this one. The wild bunch theme music starts off great, then degenerates when Ennio inserts music from Wagner played on what sounds like a kid's toy harmonica? Also bad were the "sped up" slapstick scenes. They did Hill no amount of justice and would have been lame even if the movie was a true comedy. Still, it is worth watching for how Hill and Fonda played their characters and wondering what "could have been".
bkoganbing Although Henry Fonda was never identified with the western genre as were contemporaries Gary Cooper and John Wayne he certainly had a fair number of classic horse operas to his credits. Although Ny Name Is Nobody has its moments I wish he had as his last western an American product like The Oxbow Incident or Warlock or My Darling Clementine. As you can tell I'm not a real big fan of European or any foreign made westerns no matter how many American names fill the cast.Henry Fonda like John Wayne in The Shootist is old and tired of life as a gunfighter, but unlike Wayne he still has his health and would like to spend a few declining years away from people trying to shoot him. He's looking to catch a boat from New Orleans to Europe where no one will know him or challenge his fast draw.That is if hero worshiping Terrence Hill, Sergio Leone's home grown western star. Hill is the man named Nobody who figures with a handle like that people will leave him alone, at least for a short time. He wants Fonda to go out shooting the way Wayne did in The Shootist. And what a match-up he has in mind, taking on a 150 mounted outlaws who call themselves The Wild Bunch. That's something the Duke would never dream of, but they've got a gimmick you have to see.As for the ending, think of the classic Glenn Ford western The Fastest Gun Alive to see how Fonda accomplishes his goal.My Name Is Nobody has its amusing moments, but can't compare to what we produce here even in these days when westerns are a rare species of film.