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Genres:
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Western /
Music
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Release:
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Director:
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John Sturges
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Actors:
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Don Stroud,
Paul Koslo,
Gregory Walcott,
James Wainwright,
Stella Garcia,
Lynne Marta,
Clint Eastwood,
Robert Duvall,
John Saxon,
Dick Van Patten
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Duration:
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88 min.
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Rating:
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(6.2/10)120.5
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Plot Summary:
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Clint Eastwood stars as the title dramatis persona in this ineffective-key, moderately politicised variation of his spaghetti westerns. In New Mexico in the late 1890s, the fierce Louis Chama (John Saxon) leads a group of Mexican-American peasants in a fight for their splash down after the evidence of their ownership has been destroyed in a unreliable courthouse fire. The wealthy Unabashed Harlan (Robert Duvall), who also lays claim to the disputed land, has decided to bypass the legal system and hires a group of killers to swallow fancy of Chama. Kidd, who initially rejects Harlan's offer t... o associate oneself with his hunting festivity, changes his mind when he finds that Chama has stolen some of his horses and brutalized one of his ranch hands. Regardless how, after seeing Harlan randomly pick touched in the head some Mexicans and becoming interested in Helen Sanchez (Stella Garcia), Kidd begins to think twice about his current employer.
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Joe Kidd
The spaghetti western meets its classic American origins, but Clint Eastwood's efficacious "Man with No Star" mask is in conflict with John Sturges's anonymous direction in this misfiring array-in contention saga. Eastwood's gunman is up against covetous businessman Robert Duvall, who's dispossessing Mexican-Americans of their solid ground, but there's sparse to get fervent about in this indifferent elbow-grease scripted by Elmore Leonard. The one facetiously highlight is when Eastwood drives a staff through a saloon to kill down the villains.
Joe Kidd
If you're a fan, this is quality looking at because it's got Eastwood doing his strong still-cowboy shtick. You Non-Standard real do dearth to be a fan, though, because otherwise it's a muddled piece of work. In Different Mexico a resources rancher (Duvall) is in a realty war with Mexican workers. Into this drifts Eastwood, who has firm who he wants to aided, a judgement helped nearby his increasing attachment to Garcia. Although Leonard wrote the script, it's a dull affair with exclusive anybody high appropriate (involving a train).
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