Movie: Joe Kidd (1972)

• Director: John Sturges
• Release Date: 14 July 1972 (USA)
• Run Time: 88 min
• Country: USA
• Genre: Western  

Tagline: If you're looking for trouble – - – he's JOE KIDD

Trivia: Writer Elmore Leonard certainly did know something about classic firearms. From Frank Harlan’s Custom Savage 99 (1899), Olin Mingo’s Remington-Keene sporter (1880) in .45-70, Lamarr Simms Mauser C-96 (1896) broomhandle and Joe’s Cased Ross Rifle sporter model M-10 (1910) in .280 Ross. Leonard took special care to ensure all weapons (even the optics) were period accurate for that movie, being set in pre-statehood New Mexico territory (1912). 

Goofs: Continuity: 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 is a former bounty hunter and all-around tough-guy in the American Southwest. When a band of Mexicans find their U. S. land claims denied and all relevant records destroyed in a courthouse fire, they turn to force of arms. Louis Chama is their charismatic leader, spouting revolutionary rhetoric and demanding land reform. A wealthy landowner with interests in the disputed area, Frank Harlan, decides to settle things his own way. He hires a band of killers and wants Joe Kidd to help them track Chama. Initially, Kidd wants to avoid any involvement, until Chama makes the mistake of stealing Kidd’s horses and terrorizing his friends. Written by Tad Dibbern <DIBBERN_D@a1.mscf.upenn.edu>”