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Director:
John Sturges
Writer:
Elmore Leonard (written by)
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Release Date:
14 July 1972 (USA) more
Genre:
Western more
Tagline:
If you're looking for trouble - - - he's JOE KIDD
Plot:
An ex-bounty hunter reluctantly helps a wealthy landowner and his henchmen track down a Mexican revolutionary leader. full summary | add synopsis
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Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Clint Eastwood ... Joe Kidd

Robert Duvall ... Frank Harlan
John Saxon ... Luis Chama
Don Stroud ... Lamarr Simms
Stella Garcia ... Helen Sanchez
James Wainwright ... Olin Mingo

Paul Koslo ... Roy Gannon
Gregory Walcott ... Sinola County Sheriff Bob Mitchell

Dick Van Patten ... Hotel manager
Lynne Marta ... Elma
John Carter ... Judge
Pepe Hern ... Priest

Joaquín Martínez ... Manolo (as Joaquin Martinez)
Ron Soble ... Ramon
Pepe Callahan ... Naco
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Sinola (USA) (working title)
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Runtime:
88 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English | Spanish
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Westrex Recording System)

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Goofs:
Factual errors: Joe Kidd fires more than ten shots with his standard ten round Mauser C96 without reloading the gun once. more
Quotes:
Joe Kidd: [Punches Sheriff Bob Mitchell in the nose] Next time I'll knock your damn head off. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in Drive-in Movie Memories (2001) more

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Clint Rides The Train, 18 January 2009
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Author: bkoganbing from Buffalo, New York

Clint Eastwood plays the title role in Joe Kidd a former bounty hunter and tracker hired by big rancher Robert Duvall to bring in John Saxon. Saxon's a local hero among the Mexican population in this southwestern based film for standing up to the Anglo ranchers like Robert Duvall who've robbed them of their lands both gunfighters and with bought justice in the courts.

It doesn't take Clint long to decide he's made a big mistake as Duvall's hired bully boys intimidate the local Chicano population. The last straw is when Duvall and company ride into a pueblo, have the local priest Pepe Hern summon all the villagers, where he announces the next morning he'll shoot five people if they don't surrender Saxon or give him information where Saxon is. The sort of stuff the Nazis did in their occupied countries. Duvall anticipates Clint's change of mind by taking his gun and locking him up as well. But of course there's no way that's going to stop Clint Eastwood.

Not that Saxon is anything to write home about. He's a bit of a lout himself, especially in the way he treats his girl friend Stella Garcia. As he so eloquently puts it, all he wants her for is something to keep warm with on those cold nights on the prairie and he's not interested in her opinion. Talk about your alpha male on the prairie. Still he's one of the good guys for better or worse.

I don't think Joe Kidd measures up to Clint Eastwood westerns like The Unforgiven or Pale Rider or The Outlaw Josey Wales. But it's one of the most entertaining he ever did. I'm not bored by one second of it and I do love that climax where Eastwood makes use of that locomotive in a creative fashion. Joe Kidd is definitely an Eastwood film for the ages.

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