My Name is Nobody
Movie Review
"My Name is
Noddy" is an Italian/French/German international co-production spaghetti
western comedy starring Terrence Hill and Henry Fonda, directed by Tonino
Valerii released in 1973.
The film follows the story of Nobody played by Terence Hill who attempts to get his idol Jack Beauregard played by Henry Fonda to take on the Wild Bunch gang of outlaws.
Jacques Beauregard is an
aging gunslinger who wants to quietly retire to Europe. After watching him
quickly shoot down three gunmen attempting to ambush a barbershop, the barber
son asks his father if there is anyone faster than Beauregard, to which the
barber replies, "Faster than him? Nobody!" Before continuing on to
the old gold mine, Beauregard looks down to catch some fish. He finds his
friend Red dead after attack by a gang. Beauregard asks Red about the location
of "Nevada", but before dying Red reveals the village of Nevada. At a
horse relay station, Down and Out asks the trio to deliver a basket to
Beauregard, where he talks to Beauregard, revealing his extensive knowledge of
Beauregard's accomplishments. He throws the basket outside where the bomb
hidden inside explodes. Bum introduces himself as "Nobody." He
idolizes Beauregard and wants to end his career in style by single-handedly
taking down all 150 of the Wild Bunch. Bandits use a worthless gold mine to
launder the stolen gold. Sullivan, the mine owner in front of them, believes
that Beauregard is trying to kill him, so he tries to kill him first.
Arriving at Nevada's
village, Nobody is there, revealing that Beauregard's brother, the Nevada Kid,
is dead. Nobody has ever failed to win Beauregard in Wild Punch. Arriving in a
town, Sullivan hires Nobody to kill Beauregard, but instead Nobody helps
Beauregard take out Sullivan's men. Wild gangs ride into town to collect sticks
of dynamite and stash them in saddlebags.
Later, an old man tells
Beauregard that his partners, Nevada and the Reds, bought him from a worthless
gold mine, hoping that the mine would produce more gold. Beauregard rushes into
the mine and catches Sullivan with sacks of gold dust. Sullivan offers
Beauregard his share of Nevada, but Beauregard tells him he doesn't care about
his brother, and takes two sacks and $500 to go to Europe. Then went to catch
the train to New Orleans.
Nobody steals a train
loaded into a railway station with gold bars guarded by soldiers. Beauregard
waits in line as the Wild Bunch marches toward him across a featureless plain.
Nobody is coming with the train, but he refuses to save Beauregard "until
he is in the history books." Remembering the mob's dynamite-filled
saddlebags with mirrors, Beauregard drove the mob away by firing until Nobody
was allowed to board the train.
In New Orleans, with a
photographer and several onlookers, Beauregard and Nobody fight in the street.
Nobody was fast enough, and Beauregard fell to the ground, apparently dead. The
rest of the Wild Bunch see it and change their search to Anonymous. Later, Nobody
walks aboard the ship that was supposed to take Beauregard to Europe, where
Beauregard is revealed to be in his cabin, writing a fond farewell to Nobody.
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