Joe Kidd

Joe Kidd
Film poster by Bill Gold
Directed byJohn Sturges
Written byElmore Leonard
Produced bySidney Beckerman
Robert Daley
StarringClint Eastwood
Robert Duvall
John Saxon
CinematographyBruce Surtees
Edited byFerris Webster
Music byLalo Schifrin
Color processTechnicolor
Production
company
Distributed byUniversal Pictures
Release date
  • July 19, 1972 (1972-07-19)
Running time
88 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$6.3 million (North American rentals)[1][2]

Joe Kidd is a 1972 American Revisionist Western film starring Clint Eastwood and Robert Duvall, written by Elmore Leonard 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, who is fighting for land reform. It forms part of the Revisionist Western genre.

  1. ^ "All-time Film Rental Champs", Variety, 7 January 1976 p 46
  2. ^ Glenn Lovell, Escape Artist: The Life and Films of John Sturges, University of Wisconsin Press, 2008 p277