Johnny Yuma (movie)
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Johnny Yuma is a spaghetti western
starring Mark Damon
, Rosalba Neri
, and Lawrence Dobkin
. In this western film, conniving wife (Neri) has her husband murdered and finds herself butting heads with his heir Johnny Yuma (Damon). The woman then enlists the assistance of her ex-lover (Dobkin) to kill him. 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.
Johnny Cash made a song called "The Rebel - Johnny Yuma" for the TV show. It is considered one of the best theme songs ever - one of the few that was commercially successful on its own.
Spaghetti Western
Spaghetti Western, also known as Italo-Western, is a nickname for a broad sub-genre of Western films that emerged in the mid-1960s in the wake of Sergio Leone's unique and much copied film-making style and international box-office success, so named by American critics because most were produced and...
starring Mark Damon
Mark Damon
Mark Damon is an American film actor and producer. He started his career in his native country, appearing in such films as Young and Dangerous and Roger Corman's House of Usher...
, Rosalba Neri
Rosalba Neri
Rosalba Neri , sometimes credited as Sara Bey or Sara Bay, is a retired Italian actress.-Biography:When she was very young, she won a beauty pageant and attended il Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia...
, and Lawrence Dobkin
Lawrence Dobkin
Lawrence Dobkin was an American television director, actor and television screenwriter whose career spanned seven decades....
. In this western film, conniving wife (Neri) has her husband murdered and finds herself butting heads with his heir Johnny Yuma (Damon). The woman then enlists the assistance of her ex-lover (Dobkin) to kill him. 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.
Johnny Cash made a song called "The Rebel - Johnny Yuma" for the TV show. It is considered one of the best theme songs ever - one of the few that was commercially successful on its own.