Photo Opportunity #51

Photo Opportunity #51

To kick off the month of July, our Photo Opportunity features a great profile shot of Clint as Joe Kidd. We don’t often see too many new shots from Joe Kidd – so this great image (found by Davy Triumph) is certainly a welcome addition. 

Joe Kidd was Clint’s 1972 American Revisionist Western written by Elmore Leonard and directed by John Sturges. The film is about an ex-bounty hunter hired by a wealthy landowner named Frank Harlan to track down Mexican revolutionary leader Luis Chama, who is fighting for land reform. It forms part of the Revisionist Western genre. Following Dirty Harry, filming began in Old Tucson in November 1971, overlapping with another film production, John Huston's The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean, which was just wrapping up shooting and how the famous photo shoot of Clint and Paul Newman presented itself.