Johnny Yuma (film)

Johnny Yuma is an Italian spaghetti western directed by Romolo Girolami and starring Mark Damon, Rosalba Neri, and Lawrence Dobkin.

Johnny Yuma
Directed by	Romolo Girolami
Produced by	Italo Zingarelli[1]
Screenplay by	Sauro Scavolini Giovanni Simonelli Romolo Girolami Fernando Di Leo[2]
Starring	Mark Damon Lawrence Dobkin Rosalba Neri
Music by	Nora Orlandi[2]
Cinematography	Mario Capriotti[2]
Edited by	Sergio Montanari[2]
Production companies	Tiger Film West Film[2]
Distributed by	Delta[2]
Release date	1966 (1966)
Country	Italy[1]

Plot

Conniving wife (Neri) has her husband murdered and finds herself butting heads with his heir and nephew Johnny Yuma (Damon). The woman then enlists the assistance of her ex-lover (Dobkin) who is a professional gunslinger to kill Johnny. When she tries to double-cross the ex-lover, he and the heir team up and kill her bodyguards. The lover is killed but just before he dies, he sabotages her water supply. She flees across the desert but is found the next day having died of thirst.

Cast

• Mark Damon as Johnny Yuma
• Lawrence Dobkin as Linus Jerome Carradine
• Rosalba Neri as Samantha Felton
• Luigi Vannucchi (Louis Vanner) as Pedro
• Fidel Gonzáles as Fidel Alvarez Cortese Sanchez Garcia
• Gustavo D'Arpe (Gus Harper) as Pitt
• Dada Gallotti as Flaminia Jandolo

Soundtrack

The film's score was composed by female Italian composer Nora Orlandi[3]

Release

Johnny Yuma was released in 1966.[1]

References

Footnotes

1. Grant 2011, p. 442.
2. "Johnny Yuma (1966)" (in Italian). Archiviodelcinemaitaliano.it. Retrieved 22 September 2019.
3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-12-14. Retrieved 2013-05-17.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

Sources

• Grant, Kevin (2011). Any Gun Can Play. Fab Press. ISBN 9781903254615.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

External links

• Johnny Yuma on IMDb