Johnny Yuma sure is smug. I think that's what might put people off this film a bit (cos it sure ain't Rosalba Neri). Johnny's just inherited a ranch from his uncle, who's just died from sudden bullet to the back of the head, courtesy of Neri and her brother. They know Yuma's on his way, so they arrange for an ageing gunslinger to come and do the business on Yuma too. Yuma's lightning fast with a pistol, however, and blasts his way through enough bad guys to populate a small African country. His got a Mexican sidekick too, and I was fairly surprised at the sudden change in tone halfway through the film, as both Yuma and his sidekick play the film for laughs, so when the bad guys start doing stuff like executing Mexican folk for no reason and at one point beating a child to death (!), I was thinking that perhaps they were making up this film as they went along. They also give Yuma a good beating at one point too, but it only temporarily takes that stupid smug grin off his face. Rosalba Neri, as usual, is lush and great. She manipulates every man in the film, including Yuma (who thinks he's got her sussed out, but he's wrong). She's the best thing about the film and greatly helps where actor Mark Damon (Yuma) just yucks it up at every given opportunity. This is an overly violent western that's well worth a watch, especially the epic gun fight at the end and the way over the top killing of one of the bad guys – a bit of a jaw dropper, that bit.

After some difficulty, Johnny Yuma arrives at his ailing uncle's ranch to take over day to day operations, only to find out that the old man has been murdered by his beautiful gold-digger wife and the woman's vicious brother.Good production values, a likable performance by Mark Damon, and a breezy action packed script combine to make this an entertaining, if not exceptionally deep, above average addition to the spaghetti western genre.Co-star Rosalba Neri is one of the hottest European babes ever to grace the screen. Here she's absolutely perfect as the cold-hearted user (and abuser) of weak men.Damon and Neri appeared together in at least one other picture, The Devil's Wedding Night, a pretty good horror movie that's of particular interest for those of you that want to see what's underneath Rosalba's dresses.

This is a very decent, if somewhat obscure, spaghetti Western. It lacks a famous-name director like Sergio Leone or American male stars like Clint Eastwood or Henry Fonda, or even Cameron Mitchell (the lead is the journeyman European actor Mark Damon), but it has one principal strength--Rosalba Neri as the sexually voracious villainess. Neri today tends to be labeled as a "scream queen", casting her into category with a lot of more modern-day American bimbos with little talent beyond taking off their clothes. Neri, however, was a very good actress, even if she was usually dubbed into English. She had a ten or fifteen year career under her belt before she started regularly stripping off in the last few years before she retired in the early 70's (and even though she was in thirties by then and didn't have the benefit of modern-day plastic surgery, she managed to outshine the present-day "scream queens" even in that department).More importantly though, she was actually in good movies now and then--and this is one of them. Neri plays the young widow of a wealthy man (whose murder she herself no doubt arranged). She finds out that her late husband left his fortune to his gunfighter nephew, Johnny Yuma (Mark Damon), so she beguiles her various lovers and her sleazy brother into trying to murder him. The plot gets a little confusing at times, but you never lose interest when Neri is on the screen. She is deliciously evil and quite sexy, even though she only strips for her parrot(!) and not the viewer in this early role. Check it out if you like spaghetti and saucy Italian actresses.

Spoiler for anyone who is lucky enough to ever see this film (so not really spoiler after all). Saw this film when it was released and can still remember parts of it. It's all set in a small town in the west or what is left of that town. It more resembles a ghost town with few inhabitants. Among them a couple, where the wife is especially wicked. She lets her man die in the end of the film and leaves the town but has to cross the desert. We never know what happens to her next but just before she left her dying man shoots after her and deliberately does not hit her and instead the water supply. She is not aware of that soon she will be very thirsty. Mark Damon kills a couple of bad guys in a funny manor - but that's another story, which I don't remember too good. The remaining impression of the film was that it was one of the first times I saw a really wicked woman on film, who pretends to be anything but wicked - can't be compared with the witch in 'Snowwhite', who, in comparison is easy to find out. Very tight western with few main characters and still absorbing.