My Name Is Nobody (Italian: Il mio nome è Nessuno) is a 1973 Italian/French/German international co-production comedy spaghetti Western starring Terence Hill and Henry Fonda.
The film follows the story of Nobody (Terence Hill), who attempts to get his idol Jack Beauregard (Henry Fonda) to take on the Wild Bunch gang of outlaws.
Later, an old man tells Beauregard that he was bought-out of a worthless goldmine by his partners Nevada and Red, only to have the mine produce much gold afterwards.
[5] When the film began shooting in Spain in Almería and Guadix, Valerii had a new cinematographer Giuseppe Ruzzolini and Sergio Salvati.
[6] Salvati worked as a cameraman uncredited for the sequences of the duel among mirrors and Nobody's meeting with Sullivan in the gambling room.
[6] A new problem arose on set when costumes for Henry Fonda vanished, leading to production stopping for nine days.
[7] Leone proposed to Valerii that they either cut 30 or 40 pages from the script or create a second unit to finish the film.
[7] Claudio Mancini warned Valerii, stating that Leone would take credit for the film when they go back to Rome if he let him shoot anything.
Christopher Frayling wrote: "The most likely scenario is that Leone helped out on a duel, then took over second-unit work on 'the battle', and then directed the opening scenes and the carnival section of the film.
"[8] Valerii himself stated that "scenes filmed by Leone are: Terence Hill getting drunk in the saloon (but not the close-ups of that shattering glasses, I shot those myself; and also the footage of the betting, with Piero Lulli taking the money, is mine); the part of the sequence at the fair which starts from the moment where Nobody steals the apple from the boy, to the episode of the pies thrown at the negroes' faces; the digression in the public urinal, [...] and several close-ups of Nobody who, while Beauregard fights the Wild Bunch, takes note of the body count as if they were points at a game, another addition on the part of Leone, who thought it was a funny idea.
"[8] Screenwriter Ernesto Gastaldi confirmed Valerii's comments stating that "Tonino shot the whole film, absolutely ON HIS OWN",[8] and that Leone "organized a second unit crew and shot a couple of sequences, which in my opinion are the weakest in the film: the urinal, stretched in an abnormal way, and the glass contest in the saloon.
"[8][9] Sergio Donati expanded on this, stating that some photographers were sent over by the press office, and asked Leone, who was on set for a single day, to sit behind camera in a director's pose with Valerii's permission.
[4] In the United States, it was cut to 111 minutes and "nearly flopped", according to Italian film historian Roberto Curti.
[8] In 2015, a novelization of the film by Michael R. Hudson was published in the United States by Raven Head Press as part of a series of adaptations of several of Gastaldi's scripts, including The Horrible Dr. Hichcock and The Case of the Bloody Iris.