Johnny Yuma (film)

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Johnny Yuma
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Directed by Romolo Girolami
Screenplay by
Produced by Italo Zingarelli [2]
Starring
CinematographyMario Capriotti [1]
Edited by Sergio Montanari [1]
Music by Nora Orlandi [1]
Production
companies
  • Tiger Film
  • West Film [1]
Distributed byDelta [1]
Release date
  • 1966 (1966)
CountryItaly [2]

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

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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

Soundtrack

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

Release

Johnny Yuma was released in 1966. [2]

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References

Footnotes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Johnny Yuma (1966)" (in Italian). Archiviodelcinemaitaliano.it. Retrieved 22 September 2019.
  2. 1 2 3 Grant 2011, p. 442.
  3. "Interview to Nora Orlandi - Live Scores". Archived from the original on 2011-12-14. Retrieved 2013-05-17.

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