Director John Sturges (1910)

The American Revisionist Western film, Joe Kidd (1972), features renowned actors Clint Eastwood and Robert Duvall. Written by Elmore Leonard and directed by John Sturges, the story takes place in Sinola, a town in New Mexico during the early 1900s. In this setting, we meet Joe Kidd, a disgruntled ex-bounty hunter who is imprisoned for trespassing on Indian land and causing chaos. Luis Chama, a Mexican bandit/revolutionary, has organized a peasant revolt against the local ...