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Friday, April 10, 2026

Yuma (1971)

Director Ted Post
Rating Rating
MPAA PG
Run Time 73 min
Color Color
Aspect Ratio 1.33 : 1
Sound Mono (Glen Glenn Sound)
Producer Aaron Spelling Productions
Country: USA
Genre: Western
Plot Synopsis

Dave Harmon is a United States Marshall, who has been sent by the governor to the territory of Yuma. It seems that the law is not welcomed there; every marshall that's been sent has been chased out. But Harmon is a different story, upon arriving, he encounters two drunks and asks them to come with him to cool off, one of them pulls a gun on him and shoots, Harmon with no other choice shoots him. He is told that the man he killed is the brother of Arch King, a powerful man, who adheres to only one law, his. Later that evening someone breaks into the jail and lets the other man out and shoots him with Harmon's gun. It seems that the other man is also King's brother. Most people think that Harmon shot him but a Mexican boy whom Harmon allowed to sleep on the floor of the jail said that it was two men and that one of them's a soldier. Harmon is then visited by King and is told that unless he can prove that he was not the one who killed his brother, King will be back and will deal with him in his own way. Harmon then rides out to the army fort to tell them that one of their soldiers was one of the men who killed his prisoner. It seems that Harmon is not well received by the army, it seems that years ago, his family was killed and he believes that soldiers were involved, so wherever he is assigned, it's always near an army fort or base.

Tagline

A U.S. Marshal's life is threatened when he tries to clean up a lawless town ...

Filming Locations

Old Tucson - 201 S. Kinney Road, Tucson, Arizona, USA

Sonoran Desert, Arizona, USA

Ironwood Forest National Monument, Arizona, USA

Sierrita Mountains, Arizona, USA

This was a proposed television pilot that never got picked up by the networks.

Bruce Glover, who played a posse hunting member, interviewed in Psychotronic magazine (1995): 'What I remember most about that film was it was the first one I ever had a chair with my name on it.'

Continuity

When the marshal orders the two brothers to drop their gunbelts in the saloon, Rol unbuckles and drops his, but his brother Sam doesn't and the marshal shoots and kills Sam. As the marshal is walking Rol to the jail, his gun belt is clearly visible, but when he gets in the office he is not wearing it.



Miscellaneous

Some of the film was shot in Old Tucson, AZ. However, in the opening credits it is misspelled as "Old Tuscon".

Titles, credits, crawls, chyrons, etc. are not the responsibility of the film makers. They are all outsourced.