Director: John Sturges

Writer: Elmore Leonard

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Joe Kidd is an American western film from 1972 starring Clint Eastwood and Robert Duvall and directed by John Sturges. The film is about an ex-bounty hunter hired by a wealthy landowner named Frank Harlan to track down Mexican revolutionary leader Luis Chama fighting for land reform.

Don Stroud also makes an appearance. It forms part of the Revisionist Western genre. Clint Eastwood stars as Joe Kidd, a stranger who arrives in the New Mexican town of Sinola, where Mexican revolutionary Luis Chama has organized a rustic 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 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 posses capture five Mexicans hostages and threaten to kill them unless Luis surrenders to them. One of the hostages is the attractive Stella Garcia 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, Harlan is in town waiting for him.

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