Joe Kidd (1972)

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	Year of first release: 1972
	Director: John Sturges (The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape)
	Actors: Clint Eastwood (The Beguiled, Space Cowboys), Robert Duvall (Deep Impact, Apocalypse Now), John Saxon
	Country: USA
	Genre: Western
	Conditions of visioning: 22.06.2015, Blu-ray, Home cinema
Synopsis: In the early 1900's, Joe Kidd (Eastwood) is an ex-bounty hunter not fitting in a small city where Mexicans create disorder because of issues with properties. He will be hired to track down the head of the rebellion.
Review: I could recognize the touch of a great director like John Sturges in the way both actors landscapes are filmed, but also in which parts of the story are emphasized. In particular I liked the starting point when Mexicans rebel against the "Anglos" to whom they gave land when they conquered the country and that now appropriate everything under the false pretense that the old property claims got lost in a fire. What a bad faith, so not only the Native Americans got robbed of their land. Joe Kidd shows a bad side of the American people impersonated by the land owner Frank Harlan (played by Robert Duvall) ready to kill anybody in order to keep his property wrongfully acquired. The rest of the movie is more classical and even lazy sometimes: Clint Eastwood is not at his best (I read that he was sick during the shooting), the reaction of some characters doesn't make sense and the end duel is overdone. Not a bad Western, but not a great one either.
Rating: 5 /10