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© DR - Clint Eastwood -JOE KIDD de John Sturges (1972) p2
04/11/2012 12:03
Joe Kidd
est un film américain de John Sturges, sorti en 1972,
avec Clint Eastwood,Robert Duvall...
Résumé
Le nouveau Mexique, au début du XXème siècle. Les Mexicains tentent en vain d'obtenir et de conserver, par des voies légales, la propriété de leurs terres. Ils sont victimes de riches Américains et en particulier de Franck Harlan.Les Mexicains se rebellent et Harlan, aidé par des tireurs et tueurs d'élite, décide de décimer la bande de Luisi Chama, le leader des rebelles. Franck Harlan fait appel à Joe Kidd comme pisteur. Celui-ci refuse d'abord puis, s'apercevant que Chama lui a volé des bêtes, accepte...
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La critique des spectateurs ImDB
Rough and tumble star Western with untenable moral attitudes...
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After "Dirty Harry," Eastwood returns to the West to work for the first time and the last with John Sturges...With quality Westerns like "Bad Day at Black Rock," "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral," and "The Magnificent Seven", Sturges would be the right filmmaker to accelerate Eastwood's cowboy career;In the event he wasn't The excellent sketching of characters and the poignancy of the dilemma of the peasants which made "The Magnificent Seven" such a classic Western were deplorably absent in "Joe Kidd" and the film never escaped from the weakness of its own screenplay...
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Eastwood brought some of the qualities of Leone Stranger, but lacked his style, his wit and his class
The film is set in the small town of Sinola, New Mexico, at the turn of the century... Mexican peasants find themselves being exploited and persecuted by American landholders, most notably land baron Frank Harlan (Robert Duvall). The peasants find a charismatic leader in Luis Chama (John Saxon), who takes them before a biased judge to defend their land rights.
Upon learning the judge's nature, the Mexicans turn to violence and nearly kill the judge whose life is saved by Joe Kidd (Clint Eastwood), a prisoner jailed for drinking too much...This action endears Kidd to Harlan, who recruits him as a tracker for the posse he has hired to annihilate the poor Mexicans who oppose him.
However, Kidd's commitment to Harlan's cause grows weaker the more he observes the landowner's methods...
At one stage Harlan takes over a small Mexican town and threatens to kill all the inhabitants if Chama does not give himself up by a specified dead time.Kidd considers the action cowardly, and decides to change sides and join Chama's forces...If you are happy to see Eastwood back in the saddle, and you want to watch him with Robert Duvall, don't miss this highly forgettable Western.I'm quite sure it will manage to hold your attention...
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© DR - Clint Eastwood -JOE KIDD de John Sturges (1972) p3
04/11/2012 12:07
Résumé Wiki
Joe Kidd, cow-boy fraîchement libéré de prison, est employé par un puissant propriétaire, Frank Harlan, pour débusquer Chama, personnage qui aide les petits propriétaires mexicains face aux colons américains qui s'approprient leurs terres.
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Another Great Performance of Clint Eastwood, In an Above Average Western Movie
Author: Claudio Carvalho from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
14 January 2004
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Joe Kidd (Clint Eastwood) is a former gunman and bounty hunter, hired by the landlord Frank Harlan (Robert Duvall) to chase Luis Chama (John Saxon), a Mexican-American fighting for land reform. Along the hunting, Joe realizes that Frank's men are cold blood killers, and decides to help Luis Chama. He convinces him to fight for his rights in the court of justice. In the way back to the city, Frank's men try to kill Luis Chama. Clint Eastwood has another great performance, having a great duel with Robert Duvall.
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The story has some flaws, but anyway, maybe the greatest problem is the expectation generated by the name of John Sturges: we always expect another masterpiece from him, and maybe this is the reason why there are some underrated comments about this above average Western movie. My vote is 7/10.
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© DR - Clint Eastwood -JOE KIDD de John Sturges (1972) p4
04/11/2012 12:11
Fiche technique
Réalisateur : John Sturges
Scénario : Elmore Leonard
Direction artistique : Alexander Golitzen
Producteur : Sidney Beckermann
Genre : Aventure
Année : 1972
Pays : États-Unis
Date de sortie en salles :
14 juillet 1972 (USA),
11 août 1972 (France)
Durée : 84 minutes
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Not one of Clint's best western but it's still decent
Author: KineticSeoul from United States
14 October 2011
This may not be one of the best western to feature Clint Eastwood, but it's still a decent western. Yeah, the plot maybe a bit standard but still the movie does have it's moments few times. The triumphant soundtrack is also a plus. on the negative side the story is pretty standard and the movie just isn't all that character driven either. It just lacked certain elements that made some of Clint's other western films great. The part that I liked was how it's difficult to choose a side for a while.
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Sometimes the movie seemed to try a bit too hard to show how short tempered and badass the main protagonist is while also having some moral ethics. Although it can sometimes be cool to see the effects of his short temper. Some aspects of this film just seemed a bit forced and although it's a decent western not much really stood out. In fact it seemed more like a western TV show episode than a actual movie. Besides
the fact that this movie has two great actors, Clint Eastwood and Robert Duvall.6.4/10
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Eastwood is wonderful!
Author: jwilliams5 from Mesa, Arizona
7 March 2012
Clint was already a veteran of many westerns by the time he made "Joe Kidd" and, though many don't find it among his best, it shows Clint as the Joe of the title doing what he does best.As a ne'er-do-well who ends up siding with Luis Chama (Saxon), a wanted Mexican bandito, Kidd does battle with a group of bounty hunters (led by a suitably villainous Duvall) out for Chama's blood."Joe Kidd" is leisurely but not uninteresting; after all, any film written by Elmore Leonard has interesting points (just look at his later work).
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Clint was already a veteran of many westerns by the time he made "" and, though many don't find it among his best, it shows Clint as the Joe of the title doing what he does best.As a ne'er-do-well who ends up siding with Luis Chama (Saxon), a wanted Mexican bandito, Kidd does battle with a group of bounty hunters (led by a suitably villainous Duvall) out for Chama's blood. is leisurely but not uninteresting; after all, any film written by Elmore Leonard has interesting points (just look at his later work).
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And when I saw Clint eye that train, I knew something was going to happen (you'll have to see that one yourself).Overall, "Joe Kidd" may not be as big as "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" or as profound as "Unforgiven", but it's a good film nonetheless and bears watching. If just for that classic Eastwood squint.
Eight stars. And for future reference, never upset a man holding a pot of stew.
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Mwouais...s'il n' y avait que des chef-d'oeuvre,on trouverai encore le moyen
de comparer le quel des chef-d'oeuvre est plus chef que les autres...de tous les temps etc...
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© DR - Clint Eastwood -JOE KIDD de John Sturges (1972) p5
04/11/2012 12:15
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.
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© DR - JOE KIDD de John Sturges (1972) p6
04/11/2012 12:20
John Sturges
est un réalisateur et producteur de films américain né le 3 janvier 1910
à Oak Park (Illinois, États-Unis) et décédé le 18 août 1992
à San Luis Obispo (Californie, États-Unis).
Au début des années 30, il entre à la RKO où il travaille sur les décors et les post-production de divers films. Il devient par la suite assistant de David O. Selznick avant d'être mobilisé par l'Armée de l'Air pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Il revient ensuite comme assistant réalisateur à la Columbia et réalise en 1948 son premier film, Le Signe du Bélier.Son premier succès arrive en 1953 avec Fort Bravo. Ce western avec William Holden est le premier d'une longue série.
Il fait tourner les grandes vedettes de l'époque : Barbara Stanwyck, Spencer Tracy ou Robert Taylor C'est en 1957 qu'il accède à la gloire internationale avec un western resté célèbre : Règlements de comptes à OK Corral avec Burt Lancaster et Kirk Douglas. L'année suivante, il remet en scène ce dernier avec Anthony Quinn dans Le Dernier Train de Gun Hill.En 1960, il connaît à nouveau un grand succès, inattendu, avec Les Sept Mercenaires, inspiré du film d'Akira Kurosawa sorti en 1954 Les sept samouraïs.Là encore il met en scène des "gueules" du cinéma américain comme Charles Bronson ou James Coburn et des vedettes : Yul Brynner et Steve McQueen.
Il retrouve ce dernier pour un autre triomphe international : La Grande Evasion en 1963.
Il tourne la suite de Règlements de comptes à OK Corral en 1967, Sept secondes en enfer avec Jason Robards et met en scène Gregory Peck dans Les Naufragés de l'espace deux ans plus tard.Son dernier film, L'aigle s'est envolé raconte l'improbable mission d'un commando allemand pendant la guerre, celle d'enlever le premier ministre Churchill.Il s'éteint à l'âge de 82 ans, le 18 août 1992 à San Luis Obispo en Californie.
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