My Name Is Nobody 1973 123movies

Watch: Il mio nome è Nessuno 1973 123movies, Full Movie Online – Jack Beauregard, once the greatest gunslinger of the Old West, only wants to move to Europe and retire in peace, but a young gunfighter, known only as “Nobody,” idolizes him and wants to see him go out in a blaze of glory. He arranges for Jack to face the 150-man gang known as The Wild Bunch and earn his place in history..
Plot: 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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very likely the funniest spaghetti western ever made, or at least most kidding with the genre conventions
Sergio Leone picked a good director to helm his production of My Name is Nobody, as Tonino Valerii brings a sensibility that wouldn’t of been the same had Leone taken the helm. It’s not that Valerii steers too far away from certain trademarks of the quintessential spaghetti western director: expansive close-ups, beautiful master-shots showing the sprawling landscapes of the deserts and small towns of the old west, and of course Ennio Morricone. But this time there’s a change of the guard in terms of homage- now it’s not just going for an epic quality, but full-on comedy stylings.

There’s room to compare this to old westerns with Henry Fonda just as much as there’s comparison to the Three Stooges. Or Buster Keaton. Because nothing is taken too seriously, it ends up having some strong underlying statements about gunslingers in the old west, the young catching up with the old, and the old ‘times they are a changing’ logic that comes with the territory.

The tone is light, though at the same time there’s still that level of ultra-cool suspense that can be found in Leone’s work. Valerii takes it up a notch in the direction of something a little less violent, however (the film is technically rated PG, despite quite a few dozen deaths at one point). Terrence Hill is the title character, a guy who’s strikingly handsome but perpetually goofy, who takes on as a big challenge Jack Bouregarde (Fonda, his last western, a good one to go out on, if not as great as his previous role as Frank), who’s a hero gunslinger. Nobody has fixed a ‘Wild Bunch’ to come after him, and to what end? Much of the film focuses on Nobody, until the second half when Nobody keeps prodding on Jack with his vague threats in the guise of ‘fairy tales’ his grandfather used to tell him.

And all the while it’s consistently hilarious material, particularly if you know Leone’s stuff well (eg the gag from For a Few Dollars More where shooting a hat holds as much danger as comic timing), and tries at least to plug into the viewer who’s in on the joke of not just an homaged western and homaged Leone western (Morricone’s score has tones from Once Upon a Time in the West, but comes close to sounding like a coffee commercial at times), but an homage to silent comedies and slapstick.

Where else, for example, will you see a gunslinger such as Nobody fight off a potential assailant in a bar by just continually slapping him around as if Moe Howard possessed him for a full minute? How about the gun being slung up at 16 frames-per-second? Or a montage within an action sequence with Jack versus the ‘Wild Bunch’ where freeze-frames of reactions from Nobody and pages from ‘history’ showing Jack killing off the posse pop up? And there’s a fun-house/mirror scene that comes about as close to The Lady From Shanghai as the most memorable in all cinema.

Some of it might just be all silly-by-proxy; it’s a big belly laugh to see Hill with a serious face hold a stick still in the air waiting for a bug to go underwater to catch a fish. In fact Hill is strangely enough a huge part to the success of the film by sticking to his two-dimensional profile with just the best bits of subversion: looking at his eyes one can’t always tell whether he’s being serious, crazy, or just plain joking around, like in the saloon. He wouldn’t work as the typical bad-ass, stoic Leone anti-hero/villain, but Valerii understands how to handle his abilities. Same goes for Fonda, only he doesn’t have to go too far to be effective: all he needs to do is to keep a silence going, a look that says everything that needs to be said (albeit he lays it on heavy in the final letter, something that definitely would not be in a typical Leone film).

And yet even with all of Valerii’s kidding moments and high-spirits (watch out little guy on stilts!), there is some genuine artistry at work too, as when the Wild Bunch is seen coming ahead through the desert (the wide-reaching over-head angle is the best shot in the film), and it reveals that there could be some worth in checking out other obscurer efforts of his. As it stands, I could watch it anytime it’s on TV, if only as a pick-me-up if it’s a soggy day. For fans of the western it is a must-see, if only for the fun of it all, and to get a pure in-joke regarding Sam Peckinpah.

Continuing and ending the western in his own funny little way
My Name is Nobody (1973) is sometimes silly, sometimes clumsy, often brilliant, but always entertaining. The basic story line is about a young gunfighter who manipulates his idol into a final grand act that would make him a legend. My Name is Nobody is a remarkable unique addition to the Spaghetti western genre, although maybe that uniqueness grew of circumstances. The film is much more complex than just another comic film with Terence Hill. It is four types of the westerns rolled into one:

1) A classic American John Ford western represented by Henry Fonda. 2) A revisionist western from the late sixties/early seventies with references to Sam Peckinpah and The Wild Bunch (complete with slow motion deaths, not standard in Italian westerns). 3) A Sergio Leone western with another memorable score by Ennio Morricone. 4) A Trinity-style western with Terence Hill (but without Bud Spencer) parodying the Italian “Man-With-No-Name” icon.

John Ford was from Irish descent and is considered the most important director of westerns in American cinema. He did not invent the genre but he certainly defined it. Maybe one of Leone’s fantasies was that he would produce the last western of his idol John Ford. My Name is Nobody ends with a long monologue which is very unusual for a western and even more unusual for a Sergio Leone production. The monologue is delivered off screen by regular Ford-actor Henry Fonda. It could be that this monologue was Leone’s wish of how he wanted to be remembered and appreciated by his idol: continuing the western genre in “his own funny way” and becoming a Somebody like his idol. Which is the basic theme of the film. Of course in reality the last film John Ford directed was released in 1966 and by then the old master had long lost interest in the movie business. So he probably never heard of Sergio Leone. Also in the monologue Henry Fonda calls himself a National Monument (which Fonda certainly had become at that point), during that line behind Fonda a boat passes with the name: President. The point being in case we still didn’t get it: one of the early starring roles for Henry Fonda was Young Mr. Lincoln (1939) directed by John Ford.

The uneven tone of My Name is Nobody can also be contributed to the fact that the film had two directors. After Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) and Duck You Sucker (1971), Leone wanted to continue producing Sergio Leone-westerns, but mainly directed by one of his assistants/admirers. The name of Sergio Leone appears three times during the credits of My Name is Nobody, just to make it clear who is the true author. It is still unclear who directed what, but the input of Tonino Valerii should not be underestimated. He had previously proved to be a good director with the Italian westerns Day of Anger (1967) and especially The Price of Power (1969), the first film ever that supports the theory that the President Kennedy assassination was a conspiracy. So Valerii was much more than a glorified assistant.

In 1964 A Fistful of Dollars put unknown director Sergio Leone, Italian composer Ennio Morricone and American TV actor Clint Eastwood on the map. The sequel For a Few Dollars More (1965) defined the Italian western and broke all box office records in Europe. It became the most successful Italian film ever made. Even the third sequel and more famous The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (1966) released a year later did not break this record. The main reason was that in 1965 Leone had little competition, but because of the juggernaut success of For a Few Dollars More, everybody in Italy was making westerns the following years. Among them was Django of Sergio Corbucci, which was also a big smash at the box office.

Five years after the release of For a Few Dollars More, two comic spaghetti westerns pushed the two Sergio’s from their number one spot: They Call Me Trinity (1970) and the even more successful sequel Trinity Is Still My Name (1971).

The Trinity films were comic spaghetti-westerns for all ages and they are considered to be the death of the serious spaghetti western. But in truth the genre had already peaked in the years 1967-1968. After Leone’s Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) and Corbucci’s The Great Silence (1968) there was nowhere to go but down. So if the genre had to be killed, then there was no better way than to do it with big belly laughs. The Trinity films broke all box office records in Italy and would hold that record for more than a decade. It made international stars of Terence Hill and Bud Spencer and although it was already their fourth and fifth collaboration, this was the first full time comedy they did. They would repeat this formula mostly in modern day settings with 10 more movies, until 1985 when the Trinity formula had played itself out. Spencer and Hill would have one more reunion in 1994 with the disappointing Troublemakers.

Sergio Leone in the early seventies must have thought: “if you can’t beat ’em, join ’em”. So he produced a film with the star of the Trinity films in the lead. It kind of worked, since My Name is Nobody made more money than the first Trinity film, but did not break the record of the sequel. So Leone did not reclaim his throne at the box office. But appropriately My Name is Nobody was the last western Henry Fonda did and was released in the same year Leone’s idol John Ford died. It was not the last Italian western released, but My Name is Nobody should be considered as a remarkable epitaph to the spaghetti western.

Other Information:

Original Language it
Runtime 1 hr 56 min (116 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated PG
Genre Comedy, Western
Director Tonino Valerii
Writer Sergio Leone, Fulvio Morsella, Ernesto Gastaldi
Actors Terence Hill, Henry Fonda, Jean Martin
Country Italy, France, West Germany
Awards 1 win
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono
Aspect Ratio 2.39 : 1
Camera Panavision Lenses
Laboratory Technicolor S.p.a., Roma, Italy
Film Length 3,169 m (Germany), 3,205 m (Sweden), 2,960 m
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Panavision (anamorphic)
Printed Film Format 35 mm