'My name is Mondo Cane'

I don't know how interested anyone on this board will be to hear this, but as a child growing up in the sixties, I was dimly aware of the existence of the film Mondo cane, perhaps because I would see the soundtrack album in record stores, or because I would see occasional mentions of the film in newspapers or magazines. However, I had no idea that it was a documentary: I always assumed it must be a western. That may have been in part because I was also dimly aware of the existence of the movie Hondo (1953), with its protagonist Hondo Lane (played by John Wayne*); and so I probably figured that if "Hondo Lane" was a fitting name for a character in a western, "Mondo Cane" (pronouncing "Cane" as in "candy cane", obviously) must be one also. I wonder, did anyone else reading this have a similar notion?

I can just see the opening scene: A tough- and weathered-looking figure wanders into a small Western town, and is warily sized up by the locals. Finally, an old-timer asks him, "What's your name, stranger?" The stranger looks at him with a bemused yet steely expression and says slowly, in a knowing, basso profundo voice, "My name is Mondo Cane". There immediately follows a vigorous, Mexican-flavored strumming of guitars in a minor key, accompanying a title song about the protagonist sung by a male chorus: perhaps something along the lines of "Mondo Cane, Mondo Cane! Roams the hills and the plain! [etc.]".

I also was aware of the song "More" and knew that it came from this mysterious movie Mondo cane; from the sound of the song, I assumed that it must be the title character's love theme.

Years after having been disabused of these youthful ideas of mine, I still think "Mondo Cane" is an excellent name for a western and its protagonist. Wouldn't it be great if Quentin Tarantino or someone like him were to make a genre-homage western Mondo Cane based on that idea?
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*One wonders whether his 1930 Hollywood renaming (by director Raoul Walsh and Fox Studios chief Winfield Sheehan) wouldn't have been even closer to perfection if they'd called him "Jondo Wayne".