Navajo Joe

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Navajo Joe
Promotional poster for Navajo Joe
Directed by	Sergio Corbucci
Produced by	Luigi Carpentieri Ermanno Donati
Written by	Fernando Di Leo Ugo Pirro Piero Regnoli
Starring	Burt Reynolds Aldo Sambrell Nicoletta Machiavelli Tanya Lopoert Fernando Rey
Music by	Ennio Morricone
Cinematography	Silvano Ippoliti
Distributed by	United Artists
Release date(s)	1966
Running time	93 min. (Italy/USA) 88 min. (Spain)
Country	Italy / Spain
Language	Italian
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Navajo Joe is a 1966 Italian/Spanish Spaghetti Western, directed by Sergio Corbucci. It was filmed in Spain.

Navajo Joe stars Burt Reynolds in his first feature film, as the titular character, a Navajo Indian opposing a group of bandits responsible for killing his tribe.

The film's score was composed by Ennio Morricone.

[edit] Plot

Having massacred an Indian village, outlaw Duncan finds his men falling victim to a solitary rider, Navajo Joe. Joe saves two prostitutes who have overheard Duncan plot with Lynne, the town doctor, to steal a train full of money, belonging to the bank. Joe steals the train back from Duncan's gang. He asks the townspeople of Esperanza to pay him to protect them from Duncan, but they reject him, as they "don't make bargains with Indians". Lynne's wife Honor persuades them otherwise. Joe sets a trap for Duncan but is caught and tortured; Lynne and Honor are killed. Rescued by an old man from the saloon, Joe again steals the train and eradicates Duncan's gang. There is then a showdown in an Indian cemetery, where Joe reclaims the pendant which Duncan stole from his wife, when he murdered her. Both expire.

[edit] Trivia

• One of the tracks from the film's score was later featured in Election and Kill Bill.

[edit] External links

• Un Dollaro a Testa at All Movie Guide
• Navajo Joe at the Internet Movie Database
• Navajo Joe at Rotten Tomatoes
• Short review by Bosley Crowther at nytimes.com, originally published on December 7, 1967