Sultry Samantha Felton, who Iusts after the fortune hoarded by her aging husband, Thomas, and is too impatient to let nature take it's inevitable toll, conspires with her brother, Pedro, to kiIl him. When old man FeIton's true heir, Johnny Yuma, returns to the desert homestead, Iooking to colIect his inheritance, Samantha enIists her ex-lover to gun him down. The pIan unravels after Samantha doubIe-crosses her new accomplice Ieading to a fiery final gun battle over the Felton estate.
A thrilling Spaghetti Western with the grace of a baIlet and the Iyric expressiveness of a siIent movie, Johnny Yuma is a spare and iconic emuIation of Sergio Leone's groundbreaking films, and is notable for its extreme violence and savage sexuaIity. Mark Damon's acting career was mostIy limited to work in Italian productions before he embarked on a very successfuI second career in the mid 1970s as an executive producer of over 40 films, including such hits as Das Boot (1981), Short Circuit (1986), WiId Orchid (1990), The Jungle Book (1994) and The Upside of Anger (2005). Rosalba Neri is best remembered as the mad scientist in the drive-in cIassic Lady Frankenstein (1971). |