Review of Johnny Yuma

Johnny Yuma (1966)
6/10
A Decent Spaghetti Western
15 June 2023
This film essentially begins with a married woman by the name of "Samantha Felton" (Rosalba Neri) arraigning to have her wealthy husband killed in order to inherit his sizeable ranch and fortune. The problem, however, is that her husband had recently written to his nephew "Johnny Yuma" (Mark Damon) who has agreed to give up his life as a gunslinger in order to work on the ranch and eventually inherit a part of it on some future day. Not at all content with that idea, Samantha reaches out to another gunslinger by the name of "Linus Jerome Carradine" (Lawrence Dobkin) to help her out in that regard. But what she doesn't realize is that both Johnny and Linus have previously met under somewhat amicable circumstances, and both share a healthy respect for one another--and this complicates things to a certain degree. Now, rather than reveal any more, I will just say that this was an interesting film due in large part to the involvement of several different characters with their own individual agendas. That being said, while it may not be the best Spaghetti Western ever produced, it's certainly worth a watch and I have rated it accordingly. Slightly above average.
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