- Joe Kidd
Infobox Film
name = Joe Kidd
caption = Promotional movie poster for the film
director =John Sturges
producer =Sidney Beckerman Robert Daley
writer =Elmore Leonard
starring =Clint Eastwood Robert Duvall
music =Lalo Schifrin
cinematography =Bruce Surtees
editing =Ferris Webster
distributor =Universal Pictures
released =14 July 1972
runtime = 88 min
country = U.S.
language = English
budget =
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amg_id = 1:26296
imdb_id = 0068768"Joe Kidd" is a 1972 American western film starring
Clint Eastwood andRobert Duvall and directed byJohn Sturges . The film is about an ex-bounty hunter (Eastwood) hired by a wealthy landowner named Frank Harlan (Duvall) to track down Mexican revolutionary leader Luis Chama (John Saxon) fighting forland reform .Don Stroud also makes an appearance. It forms part of theRevisionist Western genre.Plot
Clint Eastwood stars as Joe Kidd, a cryptic stranger who arrives in the New Mexican town of Sinola, where Mexican bandito/revolutionary Luis Chama (John Saxon) has organized a
peasant revolt against the local landowners, who are throwing the poor off land that rightfully belongs to them. When a posse — financed by wealthy landowner Frank Harlan (Robert Duvall) — is formed to capture Luis, Kidd is invited to join but prefers to remain neutral. Harlan persists and Kidd finally relents when he realizes that Luis's band has raided his own ranch and attacked one of the workers. The posse capture five Mexicans hostages and threaten to kill them unless Luis surrenders to them. One of the hostages is the attractive Stella Garcia (Helen Sanchez), and Kidd falls in love with her. Harlan notices this and throws Kidd in jail to prevent him from helping Stella and the Mexicans, but he escapes and saves the Mexican hostages, determined to capture Luis himself and see that justice is done. But when Kidd captures Luis and delivers him to Sheriff Mitchell (Gregory Walcott), Harlan is in town waiting for him.Cast
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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
*Ron Soble ... Ramon
*Pepe Callahan ... NacoExternal links
*imdb title|id=0068768|title=Joe Kidd
*amg title|id=1:26296|title=Joe Kidd
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