The Man with No Name arrives in the UK

The Man with No Name arrives in the UK

Here’s a super rare little article which appeared in Kinematograph Weekly, June 10th 1967. It covered Clint’s arrival in the UK when he came over to promote the release of A Fistful of Dollars. As fans will already know, a lot of photos were snapped on Thursday, June 1st 1967 when Clint arrived at Heathrow, in fact we have a whole page devoted to those shots and many others of Clint during his tour of the UK (HERE). The airport photos famously feature a great deal of shots with the U/A publicity girls, wearing Ponchos, hats and toy pistols. However, look closely at the picture used in this article and you may notice it contain 2 mystery gentleman, one either side of Clint. I was only when reading the caption that the mystery was revealed – and is actually the singing duo, The Dalys! Some may remember that The Dalys released the single A Fistful of Dollars / The Man with No Name (Fontana TF 841) in the previous month of May. I’ve always maintained that this was a whole part of the United Artist’s publicity campaign, and this photo provides even more evidence. Again, the whole story of this can be found elsewhere on the Archive (HERE). I have isolated a scan of this photo and will be adding it to both of the aforementioned pages as they are both relevant to each story. But for now, here is the whole 1967 article, which is in itself a fascinating little piece. 

I have to thank my long-time friend Dave Worrall of Cinema Retro magazine – who is not only a great advocate of the Archive, but is always generously donating a great deal of his own personal collection to me.  A kind, unselfish gesture which only serves in making the Archive a far richer place. Thank you Dave.