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3	''Yellow Hair and the Fortress of Gold'' is a 1984 SpaghettiWestern directed by Mattt Climber, and written by Climber and John Kershaw.
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5	Fiery blonde half-breed Yellow Hair and her easygoing sidekick the Pecos Kid are after a fortune in Mayan gold. The courageous duo have run-ins with an army of Mexican soldiers, a gang of dastardly bandits, and a lethal tribe of Aztec warriors while searching the countryside for said gold fortune.
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7	!!''Yellow Hair and the Tropes of Gold'':
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9	* ActionGirl: Yellow Hair was marketed as being a female version of Franchise/IndianaJones.
10	* AgonyOfTheFeet: Yellow Hair shoots the gambler who grabs her from behind through the foot to force him to unhand her. He spends the rest of the fight hopping around in agony.
11	* AnimalAssassin: The Tulpani roll tumbleweeds filled with rattlesnakes into the canyon where Yellow Hair and the Pecos Kid are holed up.
12	* {{Bandito}}: Flores and his band of comancheros are a gang of banditos working for Colonel Torres.
13	* BarBrawl: One erupts in Tortuga's saloon after Pecos shoots one of Tortuga's thugs and he [[RailingKill topples through the railing]] and crashes on to the poker table: spraying gold coins across the room.
14	* BigBadEnsemble: Colonel Torres and Shayowteewah both want the gold and will kill for it. The former is an army colonel hunting for the gold while the latter is the leader of the vicious tribe of warriors guarding the gold.
15	* BlastingItOutOfTheirHands: The Pecos Kid shoots the sacrificial dagger of the chief's hands as he is about to [[HumanSacrifice sacrifice Yellow Hair]].
16	* BolivianArmyEnding: Played with. The movie ends with Yellow Hair and Pecos taking shelter behind a door that is immediately riddled with bullets by the Mexican army. However, this is intended to represent the {{Cliffhanger}} for a FilmSerial, and TheTeaser for the next 'chapter' shows the duo alive and well.
17	* BreakingOutTheBoss: Yellow Hair has to break Pecos out of the prison in the Mexican fort in order to recover the horn containing the TreasureMap.
18	* CharacterNameAndTheNounPhrase
19	* ClickHello: When Pecos attempts to sneak into Colonel Torres' office, he finds the Colonel's pistol pressed against his head and hears the click of the hammer being cocked.
20	* ColdBloodedTorture: The Tulpani do this to the comancheros they capture: driving a hot needle through the lips of one; cutting the eyelids of a second and leaving him staked out staring at the sun; and a third is dunked in molten gold.
21	* CollapsingLair: The shot Pecos fires to [[BlastingItOutOfTheirHands shoot the dagger out of the chief's hands]] causes vibrations that trigger a collapse of the entire Tulpani cave system.
22	* CoversAlwaysLie: Unfortunately, at no point in the film does Yellow Hair get anywhere near as naked as she is in the poster.
23	* DistaffCounterpart: Yellow Hair was billed as a female Franchise/IndianaJones.
24	* DistressedDude: Despite being an extremely competent [[TheGunslinger gunslinger]], the Pecos Kid spends much of the film getting himself into scrapes and having to be rescued by Yellow Hair.
25	* EarAche: During a tense negotiation, the Pecos Kid makes his point by shooting Tortuga's earring off (along with a chunk of his ear).
26	* GatlingGood: The Mexican soldiers have a Gatling gun in their fort.
27	* GroinAttack: Yellow Hair takes Colonel Torres hostage by reaching through the flap at the back of his long-johns, grabbing his balls and squeezing.
28	* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Yellow Hair is noted in her introduction to be heroic and indeed is a very nice young woman.
29	* HalfBreedDiscrimination: Yellow Hair faces discrimination from both the Apaches and the whites. One of the Apache warriors is attempting to force her to become his wife, while Tortuga orders her tossed out of the saloon as "half-breed scum".
30	* HeroStoleMyBike: Yellow Hair and the Pecos Kid steal a stagecoach from the stage station in order to escape from the comancheros. They end up abandoning it on a Mexican beach.
31	* HorsebackHeroism: Yellow Hair conducts almost all of her raid to break Pecos out of the Mexican fort on horseback.
32	* HumanSacrifice: As a lost tribe of Aztecs, the Tulpani still practise human sacrifice.
33	* HumanShield: Twice Yellow Hair and Pecos use Colonel Torres as a human shield to prevent his troops from firing on them: first when they are escaping after busting Pecos out of prison, and again at the end when they are surrounded in the Mexican village.
34	* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: None of the Mexican soldiers could hit the broad side of a barn.
35	* ImprovisedWeapon: After stealing the stagecoach to escape the comancheros, Yellow Hair uses the driver's whip to hold off her pursuers: wielding it with some considerable skill.
36	* KarmicDeath: Shayowteewah--the chief of the Tulpani--dunks intruders into his realm in molten gold; [[WaxMuseumMorgue turning them into gold statues]]. During the battle in the CollapsingLair, he attempts to push the Pecos Kid into the pool of liquid gold, only to overbalance and fall into the pool himself, and be transformed into a gold statue.
37	* LostTribe: One band of villains is a lost tribe of Aztecs (or, at least, {{Mayincatec}}s).
38	* LovableRogue: The Pecos Kid is even described as this in his on-screen introduction.
39	* MagicPokerEquation: Pecos gets dealt a 5, 6, 7 and a pair of 8s. He goes to discard one the 8s in the hopes of completing a straight but, on a subtle signal from Yellow Hair, instead keeps the 8s and discards the other cards. He gets dealt a 9 and the other two 8s. However, the game is disrupted before he can reveal his cards.
40	* {{Mayincatec}}: The LostTribe of Aztecs kill intruders by dipping them in molten gold, which carries strong overtones of the ''El Dorado'' ceremony of the Muisca people of Colombia. They also use some torture tactics commonly ascribed to the Apache.
41	* OutdoorBathPeeping: On the beach in Mexico, Yellow hair takes an early morning swim to clean up. The Pecos Kid is a little discombobulated when he wakes up and spots her drying off: still naked.
42	* RailingKill: Pecos kills one of Tortuga's thugs by shooting the underside of the landing he is standing on. The thug topples forward through the railing and lands on the poker table below: smashing through it.
43	* RealTrailerFakeMovie: The film ends with a trailer showing what will be coming up in the 'next' chapter of the FilmSerial this was supposedly a chapter of.
44	* SexualExtortion: Tortuga charges his girls room and board and, if they can't pay with cash, the have to pay in 'other ways'.
45	* ShutUpGunshot: The gambling woman quells the BarBrawl at Tortuga's by firing TwoShotsFromBehindTheBar into the ceiling, and then telling Yellow Hair and Pecos that they should get going before they start trouble.
46	* SissyVillain: The villainous Colonel Torres is a dandy, and is strongly implied to be homosexual (and possibly an {{Ephebophile}}).
47	* SkinnyDipping: On the beach in Mexico, Yellow hair takes an early morning swim to clean up. The Pecos Kid is a little discombobulated when he wakes up and spots her drying off: still naked.
48	* SoiledDove: The Pecos Kid's 'girlfriend' Rainbow, although exactly how much of a 'heart of gold' she has is up for debate.
49	* SongsInTheKeyOfLock: The Man Who Knows tells the Pecos that the horn is the key to gaining access to the Tulpani's secret cave system. Arriving at the seemingly dead end box canyon, Pecos blows through the horn and the reverberations cause a secret entrance to open.
50	* SuddenlySpeaking: Flores--the leader of the comacheros--is described as mute in his introduction, and does not speak for the entire film. At the very end of the film, Colonel Torres and his troops have Yellow Hair and the Pecos Kid cornered when the badly wounded Flores staggers in and screams "Kill them!"
51	* TaeKwonDoor: One of the Apaches knocks out a sentry at the Mexican fort by swinging the heavy fort gate into him.
52	* ATasteOfTheLash: Colonel Torres has a captured Indian flogged for the pleasure of hearing him scream.
53	* TastyGold: After escaping from the Tulipan, Flores pulls an arrow out of his horse and gites it: discovering that it is solid gold.
54	* TreasureMap: The Pecos Kid steals the map to the Mayan gold which Grey Cloud has engraved on a deer antler.
55	* TheTropeKid: Yellow Hair's sidekick is The Pecos Kid.
56	* TwangHello: During the confrontation with Tortuga in the saloon, one of the gamblers attempts to sneak a peek at Pecos' cards; which are lying face down on the table. As his hands are about to touch the cards, Yellow Hair throws her knife into the cards; pinning them to the table.
57	* TwoShotsFromBehindTheBar: [[NoNameGiven The gambling woman]] takes a shotgun from behind the bar in Tortuga's and fires a ShutUpGunshot into the ceiling to quell the BarBrawl before telling Yellow Hair and Pecos that they should get going before they start trouble.
58	* UnorthodoxHolstering: Yellow Hair carries a revolver thrust through the back of her waist sash. When a gambler grabs her from behind, she able to reach behind her, grab the gun, and [[AgonyOfTheFeet shoot her attacker in the foot]] without drawing it.
59	* WaxMuseumMorgue: The Tulpani dip some of the trespassers into their realm in molten gold, turning them into gold statues. They then use these statues as decoys to confuse and disconcert other invaders.
60	* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: The Pecos Kid declares that he is "fearless...except for snakes".
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