| Fecha | Área | Bruto |
|---|---|---|
| Spain | ESP 17,706,559 |
When Duncan reaches to scalp the Indian woman he killed; her eye twitches slightly before the camera cuts away.
When the outlaws stop the train by blocking the tracks with trees, there is not a tree anywhere in sight.
When the telegraph man announces that the only telegraph line has been cut, the next scene clearly shows high-line wires behind Burt Reynolds' head.
| Fecha | Área | Bruto |
|---|---|---|
| Spain | ESP 17,706,559 |
Aside from Reynolds, the acting in this film is pretty mediocre. The dialogue is one dimensional as are the characters.
Navajo Joe is directed by Sergio Corbucci and collectively written by Fernando Di Leo, Ugo Pirro and Piero Regnoli. It stars Burt Reynolds, Aldo Sambrell, Nicoletta Machiavelli, Tanya Lopert and Fernando Rey.
Sergio Corbucci is regarded as the best spaghetti western director after Sergio Leone. This is a reputation well-earned after the important and iconic Django and his later masterpiece The Great Silence, which remains one of the best westerns ever made.
Swarthy, barrel-chested screen legend, Burt Reynolds stars as the original Tomahawk-terrorizing avenger in greatly revered Italian filmmaker, Sergio Corbucci's exquisitely eccentric, skull-splittingly savage, singularly unhinged spaghetti western oddity, 'Navajo Joe' (1967). The adrenalized admixture of Corbucci's bravura filmmaking, Ennio Morricone's stridently unforgettable score and Reynolds muscular, dynamic performance makes the uncommonly explosive action-fest, 'Navajo Joe' an especially exhilarating experience in high plains, zero tolerance, bullet-spitting justice!
The early 20th century produced a number of silent Westerns, now erased from both history books and film archives, in which lovable cowboys gunned down savage Native American Indians, most of whom wanted to kill their kids, burn their towns and rape their women. In other words, almost the opposite of actual history.
This was my first Corbucci film and it definitely raised my standards on westerns (Specifically in regards to the productions creativity in making use of what they have).
Jahrelang kannte ich nur den Soundtrack und endlich hatte ich Gelegenheit den frühen Corbucci Western zu sehen. Ich hätte es mir ersparen sollen.
Though admittedly the film doesn't have much of a reputation within the Spaghetti Western genre (the "Leonard Maltin Film Guide" rates it a mere *1/2), given director Corbucci and co-writer Fernando Di Leo's involvement, this still turned out to be a watchable example of its type albeit a surprisingly second-rate and rather dreary affair! For one thing, the two main plot threads (an Indian avenging himself on the men who massacred his townsfolk and a hated Indian sacrificing himself to save the lives of white people besieged by a group of bandits) is too similar to, respectively, the Charles Bronson vehicle CHATO'S LAND (1972) and HOMBRE (1967) with Paul Newman for the film to be particularly distinguished in this regard!
If you watched this film you just wasted two hours of your life that you will never get back.This film has been added to my list of "worst ten films I have ever seen.
