Burt Reynolds is Navajo Joe, a man on a relentless, rampage of revenge against Duncan (Aldo Sanbrell) and his band of cut-throat-bandits who slaughtered Joe’s village for a bounty of $1.00 a head Indian scalps. Joe stalks the men into town, where three prostitutes inform him that Duncan and his men plan on robbing a train in nearby Esperanza. The body count mounts as Burt Reynolds wields a Winchester and disposes the villains with an acrobatic, close combat fighting style, that reverberates all the way to John Rambo. Things go upside down (literally), when Duncan kidnaps an Indian girl and offers to trade her for Joe, culminating in an Indian grave yard showdown – that helped make Navajo Joe one of the most violent westerns of the 1960’s. Director Sergio Corbucci keeps the film moving like a flying tomahawk, and Ennio Morricone’s score is powerful under the composing nom de plume of Leo Nichols. Kill Bill fans will recognize the music “A Silhouette of Doom,” and “The Demise of Barbara and the Return of Joe” in their original form.
