Wanted: Johnny Texas (1967)
Directed by Emimmo Salvi / Erminio Salvi
Genres - Western |
Sub-Genres - Spaghetti Western |
Run Time - 93 min. |
Countries - Italy |
MPAA Rating - NR
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Synopsis by Robert Firsching
Erminio Salvi (Seven Adventures of Ali Baba) directed this bloody, peculiar spaghetti western shot in Florence, Italy. The U.S. Cavalry hires Johnny Texas to shepherd a wagon train through hostile territory. The clever Johnny runs afoul of a band of outlaws, blows up a fort, and mixes it up with a spy (Monika Brugger) undercover as a dancehall girl. Salvio fills the film with bizarre touches, like dressing the Cavalry in blue and red (blue and gold was the proper combination) and having Brugger travel 400 miles to deliver blasting caps which are never used. This is a genuinely strange failure which might almost pass for pseudo-surrealism if it wasn't so obviously based on poor planning and bad research.
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Keywords
bad-guy, cowboy, frontiersman, good-guy, territory