Joe Kidd

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Joe Kidd
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Directed by	John Sturges
Produced by	Sidney Beckerman Robert Daley
Written by	Elmore Leonard
Starring	Clint Eastwood Robert Duvall
Music by	Lalo Schifrin
Cinematography	Bruce Surtees
Editing by	Ferris Webster
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release date(s)	14 July 1972
Running time	88 min
Country	U.S.
Language	English
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Joe Kidd is a 1972 American western film starring Clint Eastwood and Robert Duvall and directed by John Sturges. The film is about an ex-bounty hunter (Eastwood) hired by a wealthy landowner named Frank Harlan (Duvall) to track down Mexican revolutionary leader Luis Chama (John Saxon) fighting for land reform. Don Stroud also makes an appearance.

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Clint Eastwood stars as Joe Kidd, a cryptic stranger who arrives in the New Mexican town of Sinola, where Mexican bandito/revolutionary Luis Chama (John Saxon) has organized a peasant revolt against the local landowners, who are throwing the poor off land that rightfully belongs to them. When a posse — financed by wealthy landowner Frank Harlan (Robert Duvall) — is formed to capture Luis, Kidd is invited to join but prefers to remain neutral. Harlan persists and Kidd finally relents when he realizes that Luis's band has raided his own ranch and attacked one of the workers. The posse capture five Mexicans hostages and threaten to kill them unless Luis surrenders to them. One of the hostages is the attractive Stella Garcia (Helen Sanchez), and Kidd falls in love with her. Harlan notices this and throws Kidd in jail to prevent him from helping Stella and the Mexicans, but he escapes and saves the Mexican hostages, determined to capture Luis himself and see that justice is done. But when Kidd captures Luis and delivers him to Sheriff Mitchell (Gregory Walcott), Harlan is in town waiting for him.