There are sticklers out there who will tell you that The Man with No Name — the taciturn anti-hero played by Clint Eastwood in Sergio Leone’s trilogy of landmark Westerns — does have a name. In fact, he has three names. In 1964’s “A Fistful of Dollars” — wherein our man pits the rival factions of a small frontier town against one another — his name is Joe. In 1965’s “For a Few Dollars More,” however, his name is Monco and he’s a bounty hunter who joins forces with a rival (Lee Van Cleef) to take down a Mexican bank robber. But in the 1966 semi-prequel “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly,” he is called Blondie, racing against a ruthless mercenary (Van Cleef again) and a wily bandit (Eli Wallach) to find a cache of Confederate gold.

In reading those descriptions you might have noticed that Eastwood isn’t really the same character in each, nor were they released in the same year. After all three films were hits in Italy and across Europe, United Artists released them across 1967 — the first two in January and May, and “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly” in December. The artwork for the American releases emphasized that the films were all of a piece, and introduced the moniker “The Man with No Name” in an attempt to bind the films more closely together. The marketing campaign worked like gangbusters, and nearly 60 years later, the three films are still packaged together as “The Man with No Name” trilogy.