And that final scene? Nobody rides toward a desert horizon that’s clearly a painted backdrop. He’s literally riding into a fiction. Because that’s where legends belong.

While the film is a comedy, it pays sincere homage to the Westerns that came before it, particularly Sam Peckinpah’s The Wild Bunch . The climax of the film involves Beauregard finally agreeing to face the titular "Wild Bunch"—not the gang from Peckinpah’s movie, but a fictionalized version.

The ship sails away. Nobody turns to the camera. He whistles. He tosses his gun into the mud. He walks down the empty, windy street.

Henry Fonda stands on the deck. Terence Hill stands on the dock. They smile at each other. Fonda raises one finger to his lips in a "shh" gesture. "No name," he mouths.