Johnny Yuma (film) explained

Johnny Yuma
Director:	Romolo Girolami
Producer:	Italo Zingarelli
Screenplay:	Sauro Scavolini Giovanni Simonelli Romolo Girolami Fernando Di Leo^[1]
Starring:	Mark Damon Lawrence Dobkin Rosalba Neri
Music:	Nora Orlandi
Cinematography:	Mario Capriotti
Editing:	Sergio Montanari
Production Companies:	Tiger Film West Film
Distributor:	Delta
Runtime:	100 minutes
Country:	Italy

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

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^[2]

Release

Johnny Yuma was released in 1966.

References

Sources

• Book: Grant, Kevin. Any Gun Can Play. 2011. Fab Press. 9781903254615.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Johnny Yuma (1966). Archiviodelcinemaitaliano.it. 22 September 2019. Italian.
2. Web site: Interview to Nora Orlandi - Live Scores . 2013-05-17 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20111214055823/http://www.soundtrackfan.com/livescores/other/italian/italian-interview-nora-orlandi.htm . 2011-12-14 .