
Joe Kidd (Clint Eastwood) is a former bounty hunter and all-around tough-guy in the American southwest. When a band of Mexicans find their U.S. land claims denied and all relevant records destroyed in a courthouse fire, they turn to force-of-arms. Luis Chama (John Saxon) is their charismatic leader, spouting revolutionary rhetoric and demanding land reform. A wealthy landowner with interests in the disputed area, Frank Harlan (Robert Duvall), decides to settle things his own ... (Full plot summary below)
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Joe Kidd (Clint Eastwood) is a former bounty hunter and all-around tough-guy in the American southwest. When a band of Mexicans find their U.S. land claims denied and all relevant records destroyed in a courthouse fire, they turn to force-of-arms. Luis Chama (John Saxon) is their charismatic leader, spouting revolutionary rhetoric and demanding land reform. A wealthy landowner with interests in the disputed area, Frank Harlan (Robert Duvall), decides to settle things his own way. He hires a band of killers and wants Joe Kidd to help them track Chama. Initially, Kidd wants to avoid any involvement, until Chama makes the mistake of stealing Kidd's horses and terrorizing his friends.
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| Blu-ray.comBrian OrndorfIt's lesser Eastwood (and Leonard and Sturges), but it's impossible to squash the spirit of the work, which carries the film far enough to satisfy basic needs from the genre, making it a lark, but a convincing one. |
| The A.V. ClubNick SchagerNot particularly complicated, and sometimes as confused as it is concise, 1972’s Joe Kidd is nonetheless a lean, reasonably satisfying slice of Clint Eastwood outlaw badassery. |
| Combustible CelluloidJeffrey M. AndersonIt's still a prime example of a good, sturdy bread-and-butter Western. |
| The New York TimesRoger GreenspunFor perhaps its first half-hour, John Sturges's new Western, Joe Kidd, looks surprisingly good. It seems restrained, relaxed, unfashionably out of the current mode in its commitment to people and horses rather than to sadistic monsters and machines. Nothing remarkable, but modestly decent—a feeling that persists, with continually diminishing assurance, almost until the climax, when everything is thrown away in a flash of false theatrics, foolish symbolism and what I suspect is sloppy editing. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThe photography is undeniably beautiful, but there comes a point when we've had too many mountains and too little plot. All that holds the movie together is the screen persona of Eastwood, who is so convincingly tight-lipped that sometimes you have the feeling he knows what's going on and just won't tell. |
| User ReviewJames BOne of Eastwood's less popular movies but nontheless a great one! Eastwood departs from his usual Straight Shot hun slinger and puts himself more on the lines of a less aggressive , yet still tuff, player in the struggle. |
| User ReviewBrittany POne of Eastwood's less popular movies but nontheless a great one! Eastwood departs from his usual Straight Shot hun slinger and puts himself more on the lines of a less aggressive , yet still tuff, player in the struggle. |
| User Reviewangel bI've only seen part of it, but im 12 years of age and i love westerns But clint eastwood wew! he's like one of the best cowboys! i love this movie! |
| User ReviewDean MI've only seen part of it, but im 12 years of age and i love westerns But clint eastwood wew! he's like one of the best cowboys! i love this movie! |
| User Reviewjay nwow umn just seen this movie 4 the 1st time n think that this is a good movie 2 watch.....its got a good cast of actors/actressess throughout this movie.....i think that james wainwright, stella garcia, don stroud, clint eastwood, robert duvall, john saxon play good roles/parts thorughout this movie.....i think that clint eastwood/robert duvall were/are brilliant throughout this movie.....i think that the director of this western/drama/classics movie had done a good job of directing this movie because you never know what 2 expect throughout this movie......i think that this is a classics western movie 2 watch n clint eastwood is great throughout this movie....i think that this is a great movie |