{"id":20906,"date":"2018-09-20T17:39:11","date_gmt":"2018-09-20T21:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenwichlibrary.org\/?p=20906"},"modified":"2023-04-13T10:51:06","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T14:51:06","slug":"navajo-joe-1966-starring-burt-reynolds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenwichlibrary.org\/navajo-joe-1966-starring-burt-reynolds\/","title":{"rendered":"Navajo Joe"},"content":{"rendered":"

For years, the recently deceased Burt Reynolds bad-mouthed the 1966 Italian-Spanish co-production Navajo Joe<\/a>, directed by genre veteran Sergio Corbucci<\/a> (Minnesota Clay; Django; The Great Silence;\u00a0The Mercenary<\/em>), which he starred in. Reynolds had mistakenly thought the director was going to be Spaghetti Western legend Sergio Leone (A Fistful of Dollars; The Good, The Bad and The Ugly<\/em>) and would later claim that the finished film (released in the US in 1967) was “so awful it was shown only in prisons and airplanes because nobody could leave.” One wonders why he felt that way since Navajo Joe is an exciting, well-paced, violent, and downbeat action thriller with lots of wild stunt sequences, and even some genuine character motivation. Keep in mind Reynolds was notorious for making bad judgment calls<\/a>. (In later decades, apparently made aware that his fans really liked the film, Reynolds’ attitude towards it softened.)<\/p>\n

Here’s the trailer:<\/p>\n