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The Comic Named Man With No Name

by | Oct 1, 2007 | Western Movies

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Yes, the character Clint Eastwood played in the most famous and successful of all Spaghetti Westerns, Fistful of Dollars (1964), For a Few Dollars More (1965) and The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (1966), actually did have a name. Three names, to be accurate: Joe, Monco and Blondie, respectively. Yet American marketers were uncommonly clever when they dubbed Sergio Leone’s anti-hero as “The Man With No Name.” It stuck from that point on. MGM and Dynamite Entertainment, which produces comi


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