Steel Frontier
Year: 1995
Runtime: 105 mins
Language: English
After a nuclear holocaust, the frontier town of New Hope clings to survival as the only functioning oil refinery. A tyrannical general and his followers dominate the city, leaving residents oppressed. A quick‑drawing gunslinger arrives, seeming to aid the conquerors, but soon supports the townsfolk and leads them in an uprising to retake New Hope.
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In 2019, a gang of bandits called the United Regime Deathriders invade the town of New Hope, led by General J.W. Quantrill. A mysterious motorcycle-riding gunslinger named Johnny Yuma arrives in town and joins the gang, but actually plays the thugs against each other, causing the drunken riders to shoot each other. The next morning Sarah and her son kill two other gangmembers, but the Deathriders believe Yuma is responsible. Yuma challenges his accusers to a duel and shoots all six before their guns even clear their holsters. He is chased by the rest of the gang to the tire refinery, but kills them all, including Quantrill Jr., the son of General Julius ‘J.W.’ Quantrill.
Leaving one lone survivor, Roy Ackett to escape so he can warn Quantrill. Most of the townsfolk flee but Sarah and a handful of people stay to help Yuma. Quantrill descends on the town with his entire army, only to find the road blocked by coffins filled with the bodies of his son and Deathriders. Enraged, he shoots Ackett with a shotgun and yells in fury
Leave noun alive.
Quantrill’s Deathriders enter the town, only to find it empty. The buildings, rigged with explosives, are detonated and most of Quantrill’s army is destroyed. The remaining thugs converge on the town center and are attacked by armed townsfolk. Quantrill spots Yuma in a tower and sends his men after him. When they enter the tower Yuma abseils down and detonates a bomb hidden inside.
Meanwhile, Sarah’s son hides in an armored school bus which is later taken by Quantrill and chased by Yuma and Sarah. After a chase, in which Yuma boards the bus and fights Quantrill, it crashes, and is then split apart by the truck Sara is driving. Yuma and Quantrill are thrown onto the road, where they lie, injured, both within reach of their guns. Yuma fires first and kills Quantrill.
Yuma loads Quantrill’s corpse onto his bike and reveals he was a bounty hunter targeting Quantrill. He rides away to seek out more lawless tyrants and bandits to help rebuild the world.
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