Il Mia Nome e Nussuno / My Name is Nobody (1973 Tonino Valerii)

A Sergio Leone film in all but name. Terence Hill, or Mario Girotti as he is still known, had just appeared in the biggest Italian box office hit Trinity Is Still My Name and Leone wanted him in something with more depth, came up with this idea, almost as a farewell to the western - he didn't make another, nor another film until Once Upon a Time in America. Thus, the precise timing (1899) and the theme of the great gunfighter (Henry Fonda) wishing to retire before he's killed.

But having said all of that, it's much more jokey and funnier than other Leone pictures, with accompanying Morricone score to suit. Hill is great - for example in long takes in barroom drinking competition. Written by Fulvio Morsella and Ernesto Gastaldi. We think there's a boiling kettle used a couple of times as a sound effect.

Absolutely beautifully photographed by Giuseppe Ruzzolini in Almeria and Armando Nannuzzi at the Indian reservation in New Mexico, and final showdown scenes in New Orleans.

That old guy from the pool room scene sure looks familiar - from another Leone?

Note references - 'Peckinpah', 'Valance'.

Hill's still going strong. He has been playing Don Matteo, a crime-solving priest, in Italy from 2000 - 2020.

There's something quite original about this - you don't see other westerns with urinals, or carnivals featuring men on stilts and halls of mirrors, or indeed a gunfight being photographed, It's rather wonderful, all in all.