Joe Navidad

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Movie
Original title Joe Navidad
Country of production Spain , USA
original language English
Publishing year 1966
length 87 minutes
Rod
Director Sidney W. Pink
script Jim Henaghan
Rodrigo Rivero
production Sidney W. Pink
José López Moreno
music Fernando García Morcillo
camera Manuel Hernández San Juan
cut Antonio Ramirez
occupation

Joe Navidad is a US co-production spaghetti western that was performed under the international distribution title The Christmas Kid , but was not shown in German-speaking countries.

content

A woman died giving birth to her son on Christmas Day 1855 near Jasper, Arizona. After the bitter father, John Novak, calls him Cain, he is taken under their wing by three influential citizens of the city - Mayor Carrillo, Doctor Carter and Judge Perkins - and Joe is baptized. He grows up as a Christmas Kid and becomes increasingly rebellious; When the unscrupulous gambler and manager Mike Culligan puts the local peace to the test, the armed and actually brave Joe pinches before replacing the spineless Sheriff Anderson. On the contrary, Culligan even uses his mistress Marie Lefleur to get Joe on his side.

When Joe's father is killed in a drunk state, Joe looks on inactive, but renounces all use of weapons and persuades Marie to leave Culligan and return to her home country. When she wants to leave the place, she is shot down by Culligan's men Karl and Burt. The citizens of Jasper then burn down the play and dance hall of Culligans, who blackmailed Joes' childhood friend, Jud Walters, and made the Christmas Kid stand there as a killer. That's why Joe, like Karl and Burt, is sentenced to hang. During the execution, however, Joe's horse stops because his friends have tied his legs together; Jud sees this as a sign to come out with the truth and exposes Culligan, who shoots him but cannot prevent his own death by Major Carrillo. Joe will now secure the peace of Jasper in the future.

Reviews

  • Tom Betts says in his fanzine Western all'Italiana, which has been published since 1984 : “One of the better co-productions with the Americans, from the early years of the Spaghetti Western . A decent story and a good ensemble help to develop the psychological character study appropriately. ”(Western All'Italiana, 1996)

Remarks

Exterior shots of the film were made in Colmenar Viejo in Spain.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ American Film Institute: Catalog of motion pictures, 1961-1970, p. 175
  2. Ulrich P. Bruckner: For a few more corpses, Munich 2006, p. 682