Clint Eastwood

Robert Duvall

John Saxon

Don Stroud

Stella Garcia

James Wainwright

Paul Koslo

Gregory Walcott

Dick Van Patten

Lynne Marta

John Carter

Pepe Hern

Joaquín Martínez

Chuck Hayward

Ron Soble

Pepe Callahan

Clint Ritchie

Gil Barreto

Ed Deemer

Maria Val

Michael R. Horst

Steve Eastin

Doug Greenough

Archie Harrison

Rick Kahana

Tony Kahana

Mark Klinkowsky

Ron Manning

Fred McDougall

Steve Miller

Read Morgan

Steve Moriarty

John Quijada

Neil Summers

A.L. Ward

Troy Ward

Elmore Leonard

Sidney Beckerman

Ferris Webster

Lalo Schifrin

Bruce Surtees

John Sturges

James R. Alexander

Henry Bumstead

Buddy Van Horn

Charles S. Thompson

Ernest B. Wehmeyer

James Fargo

Alexander Golitzen

Waldon O. Watson

Jack N. Young

Robert Daley

Richard Wenz

Charles Clement

Tap Canutt

Frank Kennedy

Anatol Kaminsky

Sheridon Stokes

John Neufeld

Abe Luboff

Ronald Langinger

Edgar Lustgarten

Sam Freed Jr.

Alan Harshman

Raphael Kramer

Richard Nash

George Roberts

Eleanor Slatkin

Running Deer

Ken Watson

George Orrison

Israel Baker

Sandy DeCrescent

Chuck Queenan

Vince De Rosa

David Duke

Ralph Grierson

Alfred Lustgarten

Tony Terran

Richard Perissi

Jennings Lang

Michael Lang

Mickey Gilbert

Kim Kahana

Autry Ward

Larry Bunker

Tommy Tedesco

Joe Porcaro

Lloyd Ulyate

John Audino

John Ellis

Jacob Krachmalnick

Virginia Majewski

Erno Neufeld

Dick Noel

Frederick Seykora

Gerald Vinci

Ray Brown

Bonnie Jean Douglas

Dorothy Remsen

Howard Roberts

Paul Shure

Milton Thomas

Walter Scott

Bob Herron

Western

Joe Kidd

Malpaso Productions

United States of America

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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 in the lower tier of Eastwood Westerns that ratings across internet forums say otherwise. Truth is, is that with Eastwood starring, Robert Duval and John Saxon supporting, John Sturges directing and Elmore Leonard writing, well this really should have turned out far better than it did.

In short order it has Eastwood as gunslinger/bounty hunter Joe Kidd who somehow finds himself helping a wealthy landowner and his henchmen to track down a Mexican revolutionary leader - it's a land issue we think.... But once on the trail as part of the posse, Kidd comes to find a conflict of interest and soon enough taking sides is just one of the issues to hand.

Sadly I myself can't join with the band of loyal fans who put forward this as a misunderstood piece of work. It plods along as it works its way through a muddled screenplay, which really is very thin from a narrative standpoint, and ultimately it doesn't pay off for character crescendo value come the finale. Add in that Duval's character is poorly under written and Saxon is miscast and you got a few problems to be annoyed about.

However, the script does have some nifty dialogue, Bruce Surtees' location photography is outstanding, while Eastwood is yet again a magnetic presence that draws you in to stay the course. Action is well enough handled, including a brilliant finale involving a train as a weapon of mass destruction, and there's some weapons of interest to be interested in!. But you feel that there should have been a bit more complexity on show here, and that the running time of just an hour and twenty minutes does suggest, there's half an hour of film that really should have been added here. 6/10


<em>'Joe Kidd'</em> 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 <em>'The Godfather'</em> 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.

**_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 people. Don Stroud is on hand as one of the pompous gringo’s heavies.

"Joe Kidd" (1972) is generally viewed as one of Eastwood’s lesser Westerns when it’s more entertaining than Sergio Leone’s overrated trilogy from 1964-1966, at least in my opinion. It has a notable cast, a superb score and great locations, not to mention being directed by John Sturges, known for great (or near-great) films like “The Law and Jake Wade” (1958), “Chino” (1973) and “The Eagle Has Landed” (1977).

True, Sturges was reportedly struggling with alcoholism during shooting and the story starts to meander in the high country during the second act, but the flick works as a whole and everything ties-together for the climax. Originally, Saxon’s ‘bandit,’ Chama, was supposed to be more heroic, but this was changed when Clint was hired on and Joe Kidd became the amusingly fearless hero, the intermediary between two opposing forces.

Very little is predictable, from the interesting costumes & weaponry to the bizarre plot twists to the amusing ways the protagonist gets himself into and out of trouble, like the ladder/trapdoor sequence, the swinging water jug scene, the sniper vs. sniper sequence and the whacky train ride.

Stella Garcia (Helen) and Lynne Marta (Elma) are featured in the feminine department.

Anyone who favors Eastwood’s other Westerns will find a lot to like here.

The film runs 1 hour, 28 minutes, and was shot at Old Tucson & Sonoran Desert, Arizona, and Alabama Hills & Inyo National Forest, California.

GRADE: B+

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