My Name Is Pecos

1966 film

Franco Palombi
Gabriele Silvestri

Starring

Robert Woods
Peter Carsten
Lucia Modugno
Norman Clark
Cristina Iosani
Massimo Righi

CinematographyFranco VillaEdited byAnna AmedeiMusic byLallo Gori

Production
company

Italcine T.V.

Distributed byAtlantis Film

Release date

December 1966 (1966-12) (Italy)

Running time

83 minutesCountryItaly

My Name Is Pecos (Italian: Due once di piombo (Il mio nome è Pecos)) is a 1966 Italian Spaghetti Western film directed by Maurizio Lucidi. It was followed by Pecos Cleans Up the next year.

Plot

As a child, Pecos Martinez witnessed how Joe Clane had Pecos' family wiped out. By now Pecos is a grown man who's out for revenge, but Clane has a whole city under his sway. All too soon Pecos is made and Clane's henchmen are just too many. Once he's trapped and captured, he needs to conceive a striking ruse if he wants to live.

Cast

Robert Woods as Pecos Martinez
Pier Paolo Capponi as Joe Clane
Lucia Modugno as Mary Burton
Peter Carsten as Steve
Luigi Casellano as Eddie
Cristina Iosani as Nina
Corrine Fontaine as Lola
Giuliano Raffaelli as Dr. Burton
Umberto Raho as Morton
Maurizio Bonuglia as Ned
Massimo Righi as Jack

Release

My Name Is Pecos was released in Italy in December 1966 as Due once di piombo (Il mio nome è Pecos).^[1] The film was the first spaghetti western that started the trend of films with titles containing the phrase My Name is... or They Call Me..., which followed with such films as They Call Me Trinity or My Name is Nobody.^[1] The film was released outside Italy, including the United Kingdom in 1968 by Golden Era Films where it was cut to receive an X-rating.^[1] It was also released in West Germany in 1967, where Woods' character was renamed Jonny Madoc, which became the film's title.^[1] My Name Is Pecos was successful enough in Italy to receive a sequel, released in March 1967, titled Pecos Cleans Up.^[1]

Arrow Video released the film alongside Massacre Time, Bandidos and And God Said to Cain as part of their Blu-ray box set Vengeance Trails: Four Classic Westerns on July 27, 2021.^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Hughes 2021, p. 29.
^ Detwiler, Grace (June 25, 2021). "July 2021 Releases From Arrow Video to Include "The Bird With the Crystal Plumage" and More". Rue Morgue. Retrieved July 22, 2021.