Navajo Joe

Navajo Joe is a Western set in the American Southwest, where a Navajo man named Joe becomes the only person left alive after a band of scalp hunters led by Mervyn Duncan wipes out his settlement. Among the dead is Joe's wife, and he sets out to track down the men responsible. His pursuit brings him into the world of white townsfolk, and he takes on Duncan's gang while also trying to protect the people of a small town the outlaws have targeted. The film is a revenge story built around a lone avenger facing a larger, better-armed group.

Sergio Corbucci directed the film, the fourth of the fourteen features listed for him in chronological order, arriving between Django and The Hellbenders. Fernando Di Leo and Piero Regnoli wrote the screenplay, and Dino De Laurentiis was among the producers. Burt Reynolds plays Joe, with Aldo Sambrell as Duncan, Nicoletta Machiavelli as Estella, and Fernando Rey as Reverend Rattigan among a credited cast of twenty-eight. The production was a Spanish-Italian co-production.

On IMDb the film holds a rating of 6.3 from about 5,100 votes, while on TMDB it sits at 6.2 from roughly 125 votes. A critics' rating of 5.9 from seventy-six reviews places it close to the audience scores, suggesting a broadly comparable reception rather than a sharp divide. At ninety-three minutes, it is a compact example of the Italian Western cycle of the mid-1960s.