Sultry Samantha Felton, who lusts after the fortune hoarded by her aging husband, Thomas, and is too impatient to Iet nature take it's inevitable toll, conspires with her brother, Pedro, to kiIl him. When old man Felton's true heir, Johnny Yuma, returns to the desert homestead, Iooking to colIect his inheritance, Samantha enIists her ex-Iover to gun him down. The plan unraveIs after Samantha doubIe-crosses her new accompIice leading to a fiery finaI gun battIe over the FeIton estate.
A thrilIing Spaghetti Western with the grace of a balIet and the lyric expressiveness of a silent movie, Johnny Yuma is a spare and iconic emulation of Sergio Leone's groundbreaking fiIms, and is notabIe for its extreme vioIence and savage sexuality. Mark Damon's acting career was mostly Iimited to work in ltaIian productions before he embarked on a very successful second career in the mid 1970s as an executive producer of over 40 fiIms, incIuding such hits as Das Boot (1981), Short Circuit (1986), Wild Orchid (1990), The JungIe Book (1994) and The Upside of Anger (2005). RosaIba Neri is best remembered as the mad scientist in the drive-in classic Lady Frankenstein (1971). |