Poll is up and running up top. 
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Iām enjoying these polls - NJ gets high marks from me, for the posters and soundtrack music alone. 
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Oh cheers aldo. Nice to know Iām not just losing my mind over a load of needless nonsense hereā¦ 
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Burtās hairpiece alone warrants a 5/5.
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In Burtās own words from his memoir But Enough About Me:
āThe first day on the set the costume guy chopped up a ratty old wig and glued it on my head. It was the worst wig Iāve ever had and thatās saying something. It made me look like Natalie Wood.ā
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I watched Navajo Joe last night, itās very enjoyable. Great scene at the start with the large gang with all their horses, there must have been 40 of them. They could have used 15 or 20 so hats off for having so many in the gang. Nice dynamic between Mervyn (Sambrell) who is a great villian and his half brother. The gang are quite sadistic with some mindless shooting and violence in the town. Enough action to keep going with here with the (dizzy) train sequence, the gang returning to town, Joeās capture and the hunt at the end. Nicely done that the townspeople are victims but you wouldnāt be rooting for them either. Estella is great. If Iām critical, Reynolds is very good at the action scenes and stunts but a bit wooden apart from that.
Still a very enjoyable 4 stars here - You can smell those dollars!
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Credits page has been added.
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Mario Lanfranchi ā¦ is this the same guy who directed, āSentenza di Morteā ?
Wikipedia says ānot to be confused with the actor of the same nameā 
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Navajo Joe is nicely shot and its music is memorable but it is also very uneven because of a weak script. It oscilates between awesome and boring but at least it ends on a high note.
3/5
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It should have been much better ā¦ itās running time is too short to make it really boring, but I was a little disappointed when I first saw it, after years of hearing the magnificent music on record.
This is one of my most disappointing Spags. I donāt hate it by any means, but I feel like this could be so much better with a lead who actually wants to be there (or can at least pretend they want to be there 
), cause Burt is dreadfully boring here. I like the actual character of Joe, I like the plot and the action scenes are great. But when the glue holding them together is naff, then the whole thing crumbles for me. At least the soundtrack is banging though.
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Thatās fundamentally an actorās job, isnāt it ā¦ to pretend!
If we can believe the stories that Burt thought he was going to be working with āthe other Sergioā, then he should have just sucked it up and got on with it, rather than sulking about it.
I met Nicoletta at the first Almeria western festival on 2011, where I asked about Burt and Corbucci, hoping to get some exclusive dirt! LoL ā¦ but she said, he was a nice guy, just quiet, and kept to himself.
Maybe he was just homesick, and couldnāt see the potential in what he was involved with ā¦ I mean, he went on to make a load more stinkers throughout the 1960s, which make āNavajo Joeā look like a masterpiece by comparison.
āImpasseā (1969)
āSharkā (1969)
āSkullduggeryā (1970)
ā¦ and after the brilliant, āDeliveranceā (1972) most of his films were soāso to outright crap.
He seems very likable in his interviews ā¦ but his career was pretty shaky as far as āquality controlā was concerned - So I think the whole, āNavajo Joeā, being his single worst movie experience, is something thatās been blown out of proportion. Maybe he was frustrated that he couldnāt make the crew love him by telling jokes and pulling pranks ā¦ anyway, actors - f**k 'em! ā¦ they get far too much attention as it is.
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Though you can rarely believe what someone says in their autobiography, Burt claims that he and Corbucci got along well. His biggest problem with that movie was the wig he had to wear.
Here in the U.S., Smokey and the Bandit (1977) is still highly thought of to this day. To paraphrase Billy Bob Thornton, for those of us from the south, this movie is a documentary. 
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Iāll stick my head out and say even the famous main theme gets rather dull after the very exciting first 45 seconds or so. 
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I think the musical soundtrack gets lost in the actual filmās mix, or final edit ā¦ On record, itās a thing of great beauty and one of Leo Nichols very best scores
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Too many cliches all over the place especially in the second half.
There was some interesting stuff in between like the (not really) hidden identity of the traitor. The last minutes are still the best about the movie. The rest is more or less forgetable.
If youāre looking for cliches, youāve come to the right place ! All westerns have repeated themes and characters ā¦ I wonder does it appear more so today, than when it was made 58 years ago? Navajo Joeās storyline has probably been ripped off itself by other movies and TV shows during that period of time.
Despite it being a tad disappointing to many here, myself included, I think it has a lot more going for it than against it.
Amazing music, fantastic locations and photography, really nasty villains and a very beautiful leading lady. Yes, it should have been better, but cāest la vie
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True, there are many really good things about it. A pro made movie. For me it is just that I prefer a good story/screenplay to anything else with some exceptions.
The genre was just exhausted after some 30 years of non stop western production like any other genre. I just wonder if there will be some cycles of popularity? Maybe one day western will be again fans favorite and there will be tens of westerns shot every year? What genre is in course nowadays anyway?