Navajo Joe (1966) on Netflix
Vee Duncan's scalp hunters massacre a Navajo village and kill Joe's wife, leaving Joe the only survivor. He trails them to a town where Dr. Lynne agrees to help rob a train.
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Plot summary
A band of scalp hunters wipes out a Navajo village, collecting a dollar for every scalp they take. Joe's wife is killed and Joe is the only one left alive. The gang's leader, Vee Duncan, rides to the nearest town and finds that scalp hunting has just been made illegal; he murders the sheriff and sets the town burning. There Dr. Chester Lynne joins him in a plan to seize a train carrying the bank's money. Three saloon entertainers and their manager overhear the plan and ride to Esperanza to warn the town. Joe trails the gang, and when Duncan's men move against the women, he stops them.
Cast
- Roberto Paolettias Sheriff Johnson
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- Mario Lanfranchias Jefferson Clay - Mayor
- Gianni Di Stolfoas Sheriff Elmo Reagan
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Navajo Joe (1966)
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- Producer Dino De Laurentiis cast Burt Reynolds as Navajo Joe partly because he thought Reynolds resembled Marlon Brando, whom director Sergio Corbucci claimed had been promised to him for the lead role.
- Burt Reynolds expected to work with Sergio Leone, but the director turned out to be Sergio Corbucci, and he later blamed the film's failure on having worked with "the wrong Sergio." He was also surprised that the cast was predominantly non-English-speaking.
- Burt Reynolds said the Italian crew did not know what real Indians looked like, and that the wig they gave him made him look like Natalie Wood.
- When Burt Reynolds won a 1991 Emmy for Evening Shade, he joked in his acceptance speech that films like Navajo Joe had paid off: "All those pictures – Navajo Joe – they paid off, you know."
