LUCKY JOHNNY: BORN IN AMERICA

Arde baby arde – Mexican title

Serpente a sonagli – Italian title

Lucky Johnny – German title

Der Fluch der Klapperschlange – German title

Arde – Spanish title

Death Rattler – English title

Dead Aim – U.S.A. title

Lucky Johnny: Born in America – English title

A 1970 Mexican, Italian co-production [Jaguar Productions (Mexico City), Regina (Rome)]

Producer: Juan Abusaid Ríos

Director: José Antonio Bolaños

Story: José Antonio Bolaños

Screenplay: José Antonio Bolaños, Pedro Miret

Cinematography: Alex Philips [Deluxe Color, Panavision]

Music: Luciano Michelini, Luchi de Jesus (Louis De Jesus)

Song: “Where’s Love” sung by Mel Carter

Running time: 98 minutes

Cast:

Johnny – Glen Lee

John Applebee – James Westerfield

Kelly/Maria St. John – Venetia Vianello

Lucius – Evaristo Márquez

Sonny – Granville van Deusen (Sonny Vandeusen)

Jack Poggin – Virgil Frye

Deek – Carlos East (Ismael Carlo)

Sara – Barbara Angely (Barbara Mueller)

District Commissioner – George Russek (Jorge Russek)

Prison wagon driver – Tony Monaco

Prisoner – Billy Joe Roucke (Billy Joe Rouck)

Townsman – Eduardo Bonada (Max Stromberg)

With: Marcela Lopez Rey, Paul Frenett, Joanne East, Linda Vickinson, Billy Joe Ivor, Pancho Cordova, Arturo Alvarez Limon

A baby named Johnny is found in the desert by Appleby a gravedigger and becomes his adopted son. At one point Johnny starts picking fights to give himself an excuse to shoot people. He does this to drum up business for his adopted father. The elder undertaker and Johnny one day come across a massacre and Appleby calls the corpses "beautiful" and tells Johnny "We’ve found gold!" Their dream is to open a fancy funeral parlor and cemetery. Everything goes well until Johnny finds a woman and a generation gap develops. Johnny must make a choice between staying with the man who raised him or his lust for the woman. The woman, a prostitute, is abandoned by her outlaw partner after a robbery attempt on a gold wagon goes bad. Johnny eventually leaves the gravedigger to find her.

YouTube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsK3nj23Ov8