That was an excellent one.

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

The story-telling is good with flashbacks.The film is both funny and heartbreaking. You smile in a scene and get a soulcrushing revelation in the next.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

Here's the essence: Low budget. Bad dubbing. Super funny. Not serious. Really good-natured. Great soundtrack. Probably written drunk. Probably performed drunk. It was a truly brilliant formula that appears to be lost to time. Personally, I think that the Terrance Hill/Trinity Westerns series are the best Westerns ever made. They are just so clever, light-hearted, and stuffed with so many gags that I wish there were hundreds of them. If you're familiar with the European comic book "Lucky Luke", these movies remind me a lot of it.Put simply, Nobody ever did them better.

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".

Unlike the "Trinity"-films with Bud Spencer, "Il mio nome e nessuno" ("My Name is Nobody") is more of a hybrid between the above mentioned light-hearted Fun-Westerns, directed by Enzo Barboni or Michele Lupo, and those grim, yet psychedelically humorous Spaghetti Westerns of Sergio Leone (who wrote the script for this movie).For one, we have Henry Fonda (as fading gunslinger Jack Beauregard), playing his scenes as straight-faced as he had in any US-Westerns since the beginning of the century. More impressive yet is the performance of Terence Hill, who merges his worn "Trinity"-character, jovial, likable buffoon yet "Lucky Luke"-compatible gunslinger, who can shoot faster than his shadow), with a character that often makes us wonder "could 'Nobody' be psychotic?" Terence Hill plays the character 'Nobody' as a mixture of admiring fan and stalker, leaving us wondering until the very end, whether he just admires Beauregard or whether he admires him so much, that he'd get Beauregard killed."Il mio nome e nessuno" is, in my opinion, wrongfully compared to the "Trinity" westerns – although I'm a fan of those as well, they remain comparable simple Spaghetti-Westerns compared to "Il mio nome e nessuno".The highlight of Terence Hills (solo)-career and one of the few European Western films that deserve to be taken serious by fans of 'serious' Western films.

My Name is Nobody (1973)The start of this movie is as archetypal and fabulous as any Sergio Leone movie, and it suggests another great stab at the old genre. Even knowing that it's a spoof doesn't take away from the high drama that is really possible with such great filming and pacing. And it reminds you that the earlier Spaghetti Westerns were spoofs, too, in their own way.But the idea is really thin here, and stretched too long, and with some annoying music, so that sometimes you can't believe it's the same film. Henry Fonda is pretty amazing in his stoicism. He never quite winks at us pulling it off. The main lead is little known Terence Hill, who never has a name (or his name really is Nobody), and he's meant to be more cute than cool, a new kind of good guy who's so fast with guns he never has to snarl, but just confidently goes his smiling way. The final showdown reveals the whole concept to things and it's great fun the first time.I totally loved this movie when I was a kid. I just watched The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and maybe I'd had my fill of this kind of excess, with the single idea (supplied by Leone, we are told in big letters) not enough for a full length film.