While walking through Boot Hill, Nobody points out to Beauregard that one of the names on a gravestone is Sam Peckinpah. That same year, Clint Eastwood, in High Plains Drifter (1973), had a Boot Hill scene that included Sergio Leone's tombstone, as well as a number of others.
Composer Ennio Morricone spoofs his own earlier Sergio Leone-helmed "Man with No Name" film scores with an over-the-top soundtrack, including shrill choral voices and a warbling whistle interwoven with a tinny recurring passage from Richard Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries." Also the soundtrack reuses part of "Frank"'s theme from Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) for the shootout sequence.
My Name Is Nobody (1973) (My Name Is Nobody) is a 1973 Italian/French/German international co-production comedy spaghetti Western starring Terence Hill and Henry Fonda. The film was directed by Tonino Valerii and based on an idea by Sergio Leone. The film follows the story of Nobody (Hill), who attempts to get his idol Jack Beauregard (Fonda) to take on the Wild Bunch gang of outlaws.
The title is a famous quote of "The Odyssey," canto 9, when Odysseus tricks Polyphemus into believing his name is "nobody."
The film idea came from screenwriter Sergio Donati who wanted to create a Western hero modeled on Ulysses who defeated the Cyclops in Homer's The Odyssey by claiming that his name was "Nobody."
The film idea came from screenwriter Sergio Donati who wanted to create a Western hero modeled on Ulysses who defeated the Cyclops in Homer's The Odyssey by claiming that his name was "Nobody."