Joe Kidd

When Joe Kidd is kissing Elma, Harlan's girlfriend, they are interrupted by one of Harlan's henchmen (Gannon).

Elma turns her head to the right to look at him.

In the next shot her head is turned to the left as she looks back to Kidd.

Joe Kidd fires more than ten shots with his standard ten round Mauser C96 without reloading the gun once.

When the shootout begins in the Mexican village, one of the bad guys is shot in a doorway, when he flies backwards into the room, the "brick" wall he lands against gives and then wobbles and shakes like rubber or card board.

In the scene where Joe Kidd is approaching town after having joined up with Luis Chama, he sends one of Chama's men to ride into town first to test if the area is covered by gunmen.

As he's riding into town you can see a vehicle driving across the frame in the distance.

Near the end of the film when Joe Kidd and the sheriff are coming out of the courthouse the sheriff tries to put his gun in his holster but misses and has to try again.

In the early jail scene, after Joe Kidd throws the stew in Naco's face, he hits him with the empty pan.

After the hit you can see the pan has no dent in it.

Joe lowers the pan out of camera sight (you can hear it bump the table).

When he raises it again, it has a large dent in the bottom.

If you watch closely you can tell that he is changing pans out of sight of the camera.

- PLOTWhen Harlan's gang returns to Sinola, Roy tells the desk clerk at the hotel that there is eleven of them.

However in the gunfight, we see the deaths of seven (including Harlan) and the surrender of two more.

Two have disappeared.

During the shootout, when we see the men on top of the buildings, we see the American flag in the background with fifty states.

In Joe Kidd's time, there should have been forty-five states at most.

At the beginning of the film when Joe is lying on the cot in jail, Naco pours a coffee into a mug on the corner of the table, then proceeds to fill it again after asking Joe if he wants one.

When Joe fires up the train, white smoke comes out of the smokestack.

After that, all long shots show dark black smoke, while shots from inside the train show no smoke coming out at all.

Just before Mingo is shot by Joe Kidd with the sniper rifle, Mingo's glove is shown already covered with blood, holding his own rifle.

After he reacts to being shot in the chest, he presses the glove to his chest wound, then holds up his hand to reveal the blood.

When the Harlan gang rides into the village, some of the riders pass in front of the church.

The sun is very low in the sky, so low that the shadow from the cross, atop the front of the church, is being cast onto the wall of the church tower.

In the following shot, Harlan tells Mingo to call the villagers into the street.

Mingo rides back past the church, and the shadow is now completely gone from the tower, as the sun is considerably higher in the sky.

Frank Harlan's custom Savage 99 is a left-handed version, but Robert Duvall is right-handed and carries the rifle right-handed throughout the film.

Written by famous writer Elmore Leonard (RIP) this is a decent western with Clint Eastwood. His fans should be happy - he's badass as always .

Clint Eastwood plays Joe Kidd, a former bounty hunter in the American Southwest who is approached by a wealthy landowner(Robert Duvall) to help him fight a band of Mexicans(led by John Saxon) who are irate that their land claims have been denied(destroyed in a courtroom fire apparently) and so have taken up arms. Duvall really wants the land for himself, and to Joe's dismay, will go to any lengths to get it...

Let's be honest we've never seen Clint Eastwood in a bad film have we? I'm not saying they are all 10 out of 10 Oscar winning films of the the year, but nevertheless good at the very least.

There is an old saying which states if a fight is not your fight and you're not involved, stay out of it. In this film "Joe Kidd" (Clint Eastwood,) tries to do just that.

Joe Kidd (Clint Eastwood) is an ex-bounty hunter and a malcontent. There is a land dispute between small Mexican landowners and the powerful Frank Harlan (Robert Duvall).

I hadn't even heard of Joe Kidd amongst Eastwood's oeuvre, and having watched it, now I know why.I got that it was about some poor Mexicans and a heartless rich guy, played by Robert Duvall, who was kicking them off their ancestral land.

I have the theory that every hospital, airline, hotel, or other "institution" that offers free cable/movies has this one on a perpetually showing schedule. I can't begin to think how many times I've seen it.

In turn of the century New Mexico, Joe Kidd, a tracker (Clint Eastwood) is hired by a ruthless land baron (Robert Duvall) who goes after a Mexican bandit (John Saxon) who is refusing to accede and has gone on the run with his band of men. Joe soon regrets his decision and decides to help the bandit so long as he agrees to lawfully surrender himself.

As a gun enthusiast, I enjoyed seeing the Mauser C96 used by one of the bad guys. The date on the Court House is 1896.