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List Price: $12.98 Our Price: $11.99 You Save: $0.99 Features • Closed-captioned • Color • Dolby • DVD-Video • Letterboxed • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 14 July, 1972 DVD Release : 18 August, 1998 |
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Joe Kidd description Clint Eastwood's stardom was supernova, thanks to Dirty Harry; John Sturges, the man behind The Magnificent Seven and a dozen other memorably leathery Westerns, was directing; and Elmore Leonard was the screenwriter. It just goes to show. Joe Kidd is a muddle and a drag, the shoddiest Eastwood vehicle since Rowdy Yates trod in his last cow flop. Kidd, first seen as a duded-up drunk sleeping one off in jail, is supposed to be a horse rancher and an expert tracker--just the fellow a rapacious land-grabber (Robert Duvall committing lazy villainy) needs to chase down the uppity Latino (John Saxon) who's trying to reclaim the grabbed land for its rightful owners. Neither the characters nor the overland pursuit makes any sense, thanks to chasms in the continuity and no direction to speak of. An absurdly arbitrary assault-by-locomotive provides the climax; as Eastwood observed, "Jesus, anything at this point--let's end it." --Richard T. Jameson |
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| I, too, am disappointed they excluded the most important parts to this movie/storyline, Joe Kidd's growing suspicion he's signed on with the devil, as in the missing supper shots in the mountain cabin, and again with his romantic interest with Helen Sanchez, and her growing resentment with Luis Chama, as expressed in the copse of trees AFTER he disappoints her on the mountain. This causes major discontinuities. With plenty of room left on this DVD, it should have been easily retained. This print looks like it came out of the cuts they made for late night TV where they would fill two hour time slots with a minimum of 30 minutes of commercials, and any movie over one and a half hours would be trimmed at the engineers will. Too bad they couldn't find the original... or is that going to come on the "Platinum Collection".... | |
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