MY NAME IS NOBODY

Excellent film in its genre and overall. Cinematography is larger then life. Only caveat is make sure you rent the language version you want. I accidentally rented the Italian version.

This film has all the elements of a fine spaghetti western adventure, with a strong thread of tongue-in-cheek thrown into the mix. Henry Fonda is Jack Beauregard, a worn-out gunfighter looking to just be left alone. Into his life strides young Terence Hill, introducing himself as Nobody and promising to make Beauregard's peaceful retirement possible. Unfortunately for Jack, every action Nobody takes in that direction seems to escalate the risk Beauregard's life to even more absurd degrees, until a resentful and perplexed Jack ultimately faces an army of angry outlaws on his own. The story is clever, the dialog is simple, clean, and often very witty, and the main characters, while in a few absurd situations, are fully credible. The chemistry between aging Fonda and young Hill is memorably engaging. Most importantly, the story, with its humor, film bears up well under repeat viewing, even if you think you're not a fan of the works of Sergio Leone. Bottom line: buy an extra copy. I bought this for myself, showed it to my 80-something-year-old mom, and she "co-opted" my DVD for her own collection of favorites to share with friends.

Back in the day, not everyone liked spaghetti westerns. I did. And having recently watched 'My Name is Nobody' for the first time in more than three decades, I know why I enjoyed them so much. Terence Hill and Henry Fonda - yes, THE Henry Fonda - team up in this movie about an aging gunfighter who just wants to retire and a young protege who thinks that the legendary shootist has to go out with a bang. Produced by Sergio Leone, who invented the spaghetti western, and featuring a musical score by Ennio Morricone - who did the famous scores for 'The Good, The Bad and The Ugly' as well as 'A Fistful of Dollars' - the film is a classic of the genre. That sounds a little pretentious so let me just say that it has the requisite number of gunfights, appealing - if somewhat roguish - heroes and enough villains to go around. Hill, who starred in the 'My Name is Trinity' spaghetti westerns back in the Seventies, is at the top of his game as the raffish drifter who seems always to be just one jump ahead of a bullet. Fonda, he of the steely glare and the softly menacing voice, is just what you'd expect from an Academy Award-winning actor: Excellent as the aging gunslinger. Hill would say later that 'My Name is Nobody' was his favorite movie and it's clear when you watch it that he is very much enjoying the opportunity to share screen time with Fonda. If you like spaghetti westerns, you'll like 'My Name if Nobody.' Shoot, pardner, even if you don't much like them I think you'll probably enjoy this one.

While a couple of other films that Sergio Leone was involved with - The Good, The Bad and The Ugly and Once Upon A Time In The West - are, in my opinion not just cinematic masterpieces in the western genre, but brilliant in any genre, this film is just very, very entertaining. Clearly, screen legend Henry Fonda enjoyed his film experience on Once Upon A Time In The West so much that he elected to make another film that Leone was involved with. In the movie, Fonda plays aging gunfighter lawman / legend Jack Beauregard, who sees the rough-and-tumble west of the 1860's -1880's fading away and being replaced by a more "civilized" west of the late 1890's / turn of the century. It's not dissimilar to the same theme of the Wild Bunch and Monte Walsh - older men who see the times shifting beneath their feet. In this film, Fonda decides that it's best to make a graceful exit and take a slow boat to Europe. But Nobody - played by Terrance Hill - has other ideas. He admired Beauregard as a young boy (you could almost see young Nobody reading dime novels about his "hero") and decides that he can't just fade away - he has to go out in a blaze of glory. There are some very, very funny moments in the film - how about the the drinking and shooting skills scene in the bar where he slaps the bald gunfighter silly. Or Squirrel with the grinding teeth..?? And throughout the film, Ennio Morricone provides another brilliant soundtrack. Sertiously, could this man make a bad musical score - I don't think so. Leone doesn't get any directing credits for this film - the goes to somebody else. But clearly you can see his fingerprints all over this movie. You almost get the feeling that after making The Good The Bad and The Ugly and Once Upon A Time In The West, he sat back and realized that he had created his materpieces. These were his gold medal winning performances. Now, now he could relax and make a western that was a labour of love - an entertaining project made for fun. And it certainly succeeds on that level. This is a very entertaining and fun film to watch - highly recommended. You don't even have to like westerns to love this film.

I've had this old spaghetti western on DVD and it was not much clearer picture-wise than a VHS tape. I gambled and bought this BluRay version and am happy to report that the image and sound were excellent. The image was as sharp as you could expect an old movie to be. A marked improvement. Being an Italian western the dialog can be a bit funky and I appreciated the disc having closed caption. I give the picture and sound 4 stars. The movie a solid 3. Fonda was towards the end of his career but was a smooth master in this oater. This is a rare, relatively unknown western. Check it out.

My name is nobody is very very clear on the boob tube . This flik is a lot clearer than seeing it before dvds high definition came out

Great classic spaghetti western. Must see if you love this genre.

I'm not sure what this movie was trying to do. It had some interesting concepts and certainly good acting--but it flittered that away by presenting a ridiculously disjointed story and uneven tone. If you've seen the Trinity movies, you will walk into this film with a certain expectation. In those movies, Trinity was a little over-the-top, reckless, but still grounded to reality. He never did things that seemed clownish. Here, however, he's a total clown. He's barely likeable--which is terribly sad since Trinity is one of the best characters in western cinema because he's the opposite of every cowboy in films. In this movie he's (let's just get it out) an angelic figure. Look at the cover of the box and you can immediately tell that. There are a few points in the film where Fonda's character makes the same observation. And then you watch these excessive action scenes where Trinity is unphased and untouchable. Clearly, that's what this movie was going for. This movie is very similar to A Christmas Carol or The Preacher's Wife--where angels come to guide a lost character. It would have been a rather interesting take for this in the western genre. But it flopped here. The overall problem with this film is that it simply doesn't know what tone it wants to convey. The scenes with Trinity alone are comical (to a brief extent--the "comedy" is rather thin). But when he meets up with Ford's character the tone is out of alignment. Ford, for example, plays his character with a straight face. He's very good at it, too. But then the camera will cut to Trinity and he'll talk gibberish that irritates both Ford and the viewer. Frankly, Ford's character would have shot Trinity many times in the movie--funny enough, Ford's character does try to do that, so maybe the writers knew how desperately we'd want Trinity's angelic character to drop dead! Anyway, it's a lost cause. The story needed to be much more refined. Ford's character isn't fleshed out--half the time you're trying to figure out what the hell he's up to, but not in the mysterious way--the story is so poorly written that you literally have no idea what he's doing. And Trinity should have been much more toned-down. This could have been a great morality play--the last hero of his time trying to escape his past, but his past is right on his heels; he's trying to avoid it, running and gunning out of this world into another (crossing the ocean to Europe). But Destiny forces him to remember who he really is, what he once stood for, and make a decision that could see him dead. THAT is what the story fundamentally was about. As I said before, the elements are all there, but it's so awkwardly, stupidly, clumsily executed that the great parts are lost. It's sad. Ford does a great job, despite the script's numerous flaws. And Hill--well, I don't know. I think that Hill felt a lot more comfortable acting Trinity in the tone-down, lazy fashion that character was previously written. In this film, however, Hill seems out of place with the stupid antics and outrageous behavior he has to perform. Those few moments where Trinity is serious, calm, lucid are brilliant. Especially the scene at the Indian graveyard. When he finally has a chance to meet Ford's character face-to-face in a shoot-out. That entire scene is very well crafted and acted. Indeed, Hill's Trinity in that short moment is an enticing, likable, interesting character. There are a few places in the movie where that just shines. Now, technically I have to say that this movie was shot BEAUTIFULLY. There are so many brilliant, amazing shots that despite the lackluster story, I was truly happy with the setting and camera work. My favorite is when Trinity comes into town during a festival and walks smack into someone on stilts. That series of shots is simply wonderful--the angle up to this man on stilts truly makes him seem giant, how the sun reflects off the lens, how the face is distorted, and the voice booming. And then Trinity cuts the image down to size--in a truly great moment of perfect storytelling and camera movement. Unfortunately, the technical greatness of this movie doesn't save it. Should you watch it? Yes. Should you buy a fresh, new copy of the movie? No. Buy it used.

Probably the ultimate Spaghetti Western, Produced by Sergio Leone with the iconic soundtrack by Ennio Morricone Henry Fonda's character famed gunslinger Jack Beauregard is trying to retire and get a ship to Europe. But Nobody played by Italian Terence Hill wants Jack to take on the Wildbunch an organized gang of 150 men by himself. This is a movie that was created when establishment of character and plot were important to the film and younger viewers may find it slow compared to the explosion riddled films of today. The high definition 40th Anniversary edition gives us the great visuals by director Tonino Valerii as we follow Jack and Nobody in this comedy filled classic Western

La référence du western spaghetti Mon Nom est Personne "Il mio nome è Nessuno" sorti en 1973. Que dire de plus sur ce film que tout le monde connait. Une musique, un sifflement, un air fredonné signé par le maestro Ennio Morricone. Le chant du cygne, l'oraison funèbre ou le chant mortuaire du western spaghetti. On retrouve toutes les thématiques et tous les codes du western italien : il y a des duels, de longs silences tendus, de la vengeance, une précision des pistoleros à toute épreuve, des méchants, des leitmotivs...Sergio Leone est un peu sidéré de voir le genre qu'il a inventé, etre parodié par Terence Hill dans Trinita. Il décide alors de riposter en confrontant un de "ses" personnages incarné par Henry Fonda avec un personnage du renouveau du western italien incarné par Terence Hill à la fois drôle et charismatique, il fournit ici la meilleure prestation (et de loin) de sa carrière.. Henry Fonda représente le western traditionnel, la sagesse qui annonce la fin du genre. Fonda interprète à la perfection le rôle du justicier vieillissant. Son regard mélancolique qui tire sa révérence sur le progrès et la disparition du Far West tel qu’il l’a connu. Ce western a été conçu sur une idée de Sergio Leone qui s'est inspiré d'un fait divers réel (à partir de 1895, les journaux du Wyoming relatent les méfaits de la "horde sauvage", une bande de 150 bandits qui sèment la terreur dans la région). Leone écrit le scénario, produit le film et en confie la réalisation à Tonino Valerii qui fut son assistant sur Et pour quelques $ de plus, et qui n'a pas oublié les leçons de son mentor, en faisant en sorte que son film soit un hommage au maître du western spaghetti. Même s'il marche bien sur ses traces, on y retrouve le style indiscutable de Leone, le film porte sa signature, et certains critiques n'hésitent pas à le considérer (peut-être à tort car le travail de Valerii est quand même là) comme un de ses films. Il est vrai qu'il s'est pas mal investi dedans, au point qu'il n'oublie pas d'insérer ses références cinématographiques, notamment celles à Sam Peckinpah, dont le nom figure sur la tombe d'un cimetière indien et aussi avec la horde sauvage... Sans compter qu'il a supervisé de près le tournage en Espagne et aux Etats-Unis, et qu'il a dirigé la seconde équipe afin d'en accélérer les délais. Les scènes que Leone a dirigées sont celles des urinoirs publics et du concours de verres et de gifles dans le saloon où Terence Hill s'amuse comme un petit fou, cette dernière étant une longue scène, très drôle qui nécessita une semaine de tournage. Le film est avant tout un magnifique hommage aux légendes de l'Ouest, et renvoie forcément à la réplique mythique d'un autre monument du western : "On est dans l'Ouest ici. Quand la légende dépasse la réalité, alors on publie la légende !", tirée du chef d'oeuvre "L'Homme qui tua Liberty Valance" (1962) de John Ford. L'autre paramètre qui n'est certainement pas à négliger est qu'il reste un film à références tant Tonino Valerii et Leone ont multiplié les clins d'oeil et autres tout le long du film. Une scène culte reste dans nos mémoires, c'est celle du saloon. Mon Nom est Personne est la preuve ultime du western amusant, ultra référencé, qui semble alors comme une parodie mais qui est contre-balancé par un hommage magnifique non dénué de souffle épique teinté de nostalgie. ce qui le rend particulièrement mythique et émouvant. LEGENDAIRE !

…war mein allererster Kinofilm 🥰 aus Nostalgie nochmal angeschaut

agréable a revoir

Great movie, great music, great acting. It arrived on time. Recommended for everyone that likes spaghetti westerns and similar scores.