''My Name Is Pecos'' ( it, Due once di piombo (Il mio nome è Pecos)) is a 1966 Italian Spaghetti Western film directed by

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. 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 *

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as Joe Clane * Lucia Modugno as Mary Burton *

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as Steve * Luigi Casellano as Eddie * Cristina Iosani as Nina * Corrine Fontaine as Lola * Giuliano Raffaelli as Dr. Burton *

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as Morton *

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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)''. 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 ''

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'' or ''

My Name is Nobody ''My Name Is Nobody'' ( it, Il mio nome è Nessuno) 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 Ser ...

''. 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. It was also released in West Germany in 1967, where Woods' character was renamed ''Jonny Madoc'', which became the film's title. ''My Name Is Pecos'' was successful enough in Italy to receive a sequel, released in March 1967, titled '' Pecos Cleans Up''.

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released the film alongside ''

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'', ''

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'' and ''

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'' as part of their

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box set ''Vengeance Trails: Four Classic Westerns'' on July 27, 2021.

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* 1966 films Spaghetti Western films 1966 Western (genre) films Films directed by Maurizio Lucidi 1960s Italian films {{1960s-Western-film-stub