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Navajo Joe Overview:

Navajo Joe (1966) was a Western - Action Film directed by Sergio Corbucci and produced by Luigi Carpentieri and Ermanno Donati.

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NAVAJO JOE On Blu-ray

By Dan Day Jr. on Sep 1, 2015 From The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog

Kino Lorber has been putting out a lot of Spaghetti Westerns on Blu-ray recently, and one of the latest is 1966's NAVAJO JOE, starring of all people Burt Reynolds. After he was shown a print of A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS by his buddy Clint Eastwood, Burt Reynolds thought that maybe he should try the Ital... Read full article

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Burt Reynolds has said that this movie was the worst professional experience he has ever had in working in the film and television industry. Reynolds has publicized his aversion of the production process of making this movie in numerous interviews.
When director Sergio Corbucci was approached to make this movie, Marlon Brando was touted as the actor who was wanted to play Navajo Joe. Brando did not end up playing Navajo Joe, the part being taken by Burt Reynolds.
The word Navajo of this film's title refers to the Native American Navajo Tribe of the Southwestern United States of North America. The people are also known as the Diné Tribe. The Navajo are the second largest Native American tribe of Northern America.
This is the only spaghetti western featuring Burt Reynolds.
Producer Dino De Laurentiis made this spaghetti western with the intention of replicating the success of A Fistful of Dollars after that movie had become a box-office hit. De Laurentiis wanted to find an American actor to rival Clint Eastwood's popularity. Reynolds had appeared in TV westerns and was part Cherokee Indian. De Laurentiis persuaded Reynolds to sign on.
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