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Joe Kidd
Drama, Western
A band of Mexicans find their U. S. land claims denied and all the records destroyed in a courthouse fire. Their leader, Louis Chama, encourages them to use force to regain their land. A wealthy landowner wanting the same decides to hire a gang of killers with Joe Kidd to track Chama.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who enjoy lean frontier stories with shifting loyalties, taciturn antiheroes, and bursts of hard-edged action.
- Tone
- tense, bleak, adventurous
- Payoff
- adrenaline, vindication
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- moderate
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- land rights, law versus power, exploitation, pursuit, moral ambiguity
- Setting
- late nineteenth-century frontier, dusty border towns and rugged ranchlands
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