Joe Kidd

Joe Kidd (1972)

  • 83% of critics liked it
    (6 reviews)

  • 50% of users liked it
    (7,966 ratings)

In John Sturges'sAmericanized version of Sergio Leone's Man-With-No-Name films, Clint Eastwood is 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… More

PG,
Directed By
Written By
Elmore Leonard
Genres
Western, Drama, Action & Adventure, Classics
In Theaters
Jan 1, 1972 Wide
Universal Studios

Critic Reviews

  • Jeffrey M. Anderson, Combustible Celluloid

    It's still a prime example of a good, sturdy bread-and-butter Western.

  • Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews

    Entertaining but senseless.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • jay n


    Ordinary western has good actors and nice scenery but nothing you have seen many times before. Still if you like Clint and westerns this will work fine for you.

  • Conner R


    No, it's not one of the best westerns ever made, but it's really fun. Clint Eastwood gives a great performance and really plays a different western hero than usual. It's also sort've odd to see Robert Duvall as such a scumbag. It's got a really great style… More

  • xGary X


    Bizarrely sloppy by-the-numbers Clint Eastwood western, particularly considering the talent involved. There seems to be little logic involved in any of it; only Clints charisma and the loosely associated bouts of screen violence demand attention; the "plot" is… More

  • Dean M


    Average western film, but I'm such a fan of Clint Eastwood.

  • Jim W


    Joe Kidd has Clint Eastwood as a moody cowboy who's a man of few words yet again. He's on no ones side but his own, but he has morals. So when a rancher played by Robert Duvall threatens to kill 5 innocent people every hour until a rebel (John Saxon) hands himself in, that… More

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