Joe Kidd

By the early 1970s, Hollywood’s Western genre had entered a period of self-reflection, with filmmakers increasingly interrogating the mythic grandeur of the American frontier. The revisionist Western, marked by its grittier narratives and moral ambiguity, sought to dismantle the simplistic heroism of earlier decades. Even veteran directors like John Sturges, whose career had been built on the stoic heroics of *Gunfi…