Joe Kidd

directed by John Sturges
Category: "Western"
Year of Release:1972
Date Added:03/17/2009
Date Watched:03/17/2009
Description:Joe Kidd (Clint Eastwood) gets caught up in a battle between a wealthy landowner (Robert Duvall) and a Mexican who is fighting to hold on to his people's property rights. Kidd joins the landowner, but when he starts killing Mexicans in cold blood, he switches sides. He talks the Mexican into giving himself up. The landowner's men are waiting in ambush. Kidd runs the train into town, right through several buildings, kills the landowner and his friends, then punches the sheriff and rides out of town with the Mexican's woman.
My Rating:6

Reviews for Joe Kidd

Review - Joe Kidd

Rather fun to watch but ridiculous. Why didn't Kidd just take the Mexican to prison in another town instead of destroying the one where the landowner was waiting? I mean, driving a train through several downtown buildings seems a bit much. And how did he end up with the Mexican's woman? Would the guy really go to that much trouble to turn himself in and lose his freedom and his girl just because Kidd told him to?

Reviewed by Roger on 2009-03-17 21:20:47

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