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never a nameless man to begin with; he is really a man without a known
background, a man who must be taken at face value until his real identity
reveals itself to the audience. It is, perhaps, this fraudulence that caused
the m otif to become played out rather quickly in literature and film, as
Leone, who previously directed under the name “Bob Robertson” for
American audiences, may have acknowledged when he ended the
cinematic m otif in 1973 with a film called, “My Name is Nobody .”
University o f New Mexico
Joseph Serio
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