Joe Kidd

Movie

1972

1h 28m

English

Western

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A band of Mexicans find their U. S. land claims denied and all the records destroyed in a courthouse fire. Their leader, Louis Chama, encourages them to use force to regain their land. A wealthy landowner wanting the same decides to hire a gang of killers with Joe Kidd to tr...

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Joe Kidd

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1972

1h 28m

English

Western

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Cast

Joe Kidd

Frank Harlan

Luis Chama

Lamarr Simms

Helen Sanchez

Mingo

Roy

Mitchell

Hotel Manager

Elma

Judge

Priest

Manolo

Rider (uncredited)

Eljay

Directed By: John Sturges

Written By: Elmore Leonard

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carlos-teran says...

8 years ago

The thing about this movie are the wonderful background landscapes. John Sturges loved widescreen formats, in an age when most cinemas still had 4:3 screens, as a norm. However, the cast feels lost against the backgrounds. Anyone familiar with retro-TV will recognize most of the supporting cast members as popular character actors that used to play antagonist roles in all the popular shows of the late 60's and 70's, including my favorite "heavy", Ron Soble (Wyatt Earp in Star Trek's "Spectre Of The Gun" and Queng-Dri in The Six Million Dollar Man's "The Coward"). This is nothing but a minor work in Sturges' and Eastwood's filmography, but it's well worth watching it.

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r96sk says...

2 years ago

'Joe Kidd' is solid. It's not Clint Eastwood's best work but it's still a role that sufficiently entertains. You also have an important role for one Robert Duvall, who did 'The Godfather' in the same year interestingly. No-one else really stands out; not even the miscast John Saxon. The plot is a simple one, which thankfully doesn't drag thanks to a short run time of around 90 minutes. There's also an amusing scene involving a choo-choo, so there is also that. Overall, it does enough for me.

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FinFan says...

7 years ago

Classic Eastwood western. Not his best, for sure not his worst. It is a different style then the Sergio Leone movies. Still, Eastwood does what he does best and he has good company in Duvall and Saxon.

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moonkodi says...

7 years ago

Slightly above average western but still not interesting enough. The music and visuals are as you'd expect, really good. Watch if you're more of a western fan than most.

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r96sk

2 years ago

'Joe Kidd' is solid.

It's not Clint Eastwood's best work but it's still a role that sufficiently entertains. You also have an important role for one Robert Duvall, who did 'The Godfather' in the same year interestingly. No-one else really stands out; not even the miscast John Sa More

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Wuchak

2 years ago

**_Eastwood’s “lost” Western with Duvall and Saxon_**

In the Southwest in 1902 a land-grabbing tycoon (Robert Duvall) hires an ex-bounty hunter (Clint Eastwood) in order to track down a Mexican leader who objects to injustice (John Saxon) and is hiding out in the high country with his peopl More

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John Chard

5 years ago

Well the deer didn't know where he was, and I wasn't sure either.

There's a certain school of thought with Eastwood purists that Joe Kidd is far more meaningful than its reputation would suggest. In fact that it most certainly is not the lower tier of Eastwood Westerns that ratings across interne More

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