Underplayed Gems

Joe Kidd (1972)

Joe Kidd poster
Directed by
John Sturges
Genre
Western film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 28m
Rated
PG
Rating
6.4 of 10 from 417 voters
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IMDb
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How it feels

A former bounty hunter is hired by a rich landowner to catch a Mexican revolutionary. He gets caught between the landowner's violent methods and the rebel's cause.

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What happens

Joe Kidd is a 1972 American Revisionist Western film starring Clint Eastwood and Robert Duvall, written by Elmore Leonard and directed by John Sturges. The film is about an ex-bounty hunter hired by a wealthy landowner named Frank Harlan to track down Mexican revolutionary leader Luis Chama, who is fighting for land reform. It forms part of the Revisionist Western genre. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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