Robert Duvall,(APOCALYPSE NOW )...le chef des bad guys
Cast
Clint Eastwood : Joe Kidd
Robert Duvall : Frank Harlan
John Saxon : Luis Chama
Don Stroud : Lamarr Simms
Stella Garcia : Helen Sanchez
James Wainwright : Olin Mingo
Paul Koslo : Roy Gannon
Gregory Walcott : Shérif Bob Mitchell
Dick Van Patten : Le maître d'hôtel
Lynne Marta : Elma
John Carter : Le juge
Pepe Hern : Le prêtre
Joaquín Martínez : Manolo
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Decent, if not the most memorable Eastwood Western
Author: planktonrules from Bradenton, Florida
21 September 2006
This is a pretty good though very simple Western and I am sure that the somewhat low ratings are due, in part, to the movie not being exactly what Clint Eastwood fans expected. In this film, he plays Joe Kidd--a decent sort of guy but not exactly as super-human as "the man with no name" in his Spaghetti Westerns. He's a lot like Eastwood in UNFORGIVEN because he seems not so super-human, except that he is a fundamentally decent person in JOE KIDD, whereas in UNFORGIVEN he's almost like a multiple personality (one nice and the other evil).
The character Joe Kidd shows off his abilities here and there, but he isn't the amazing man with a 6-shooter as you'd expect from Eastwood either--though he sure does pretty well with a rifle or train (you'll have to see what I mean by seeing the picture). So overall, this film is very good but a bit subdued and more realistic than most of Eastwood's Westerns--plus at under 90 minutes, it's pretty short as well. One way I knew this was a pretty good flick was that my wife sat and watched the film with me--and she hates Westerns.
