Joe Kidd is a 1972 American western film starring Clint Eastwood and Robert Duvall, written by Elmore Leonard and directed by John Sturges.
Set In the early 1900s, Clint Eastwood stars as Joe Kidd, a former bounty hunter who is in jail for hunting on Indian land and disturbing the peace in the New Mexican town of Sinola. Mexican banditorevolutionary 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 Chama, Kidd is invited to join but prefers to remain neutral. Harlan persists and Kidd finally relents when he learns that Chamas band has raided his own ranch and attacked one of the workers. ........
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