''Joe Dakota'' (also known as ''Spara Joe... e così sia!'') is a 1971 Spaghetti Western film directed by

Emilio Miraglia Emilio Paolo Miraglia (1 January 1924 – 26 August 1982) was an Italian film director. He began working in film as a director's assistant and technician and worked on many B movies. Miraglia is known for his two early 1970s giallo films, ''The ...

. This 1972 movie should not be confused with a 1957 movie of the same name,

Joe Dakota (1957 film) ''Joe Dakota'' is a 1957 American Western film directed by Richard Bartlett and written by William Talman and Norman Jolley. The film stars Jock Mahoney, Luana Patten, Charles McGraw, Barbara Lawrence, Claude Akins, Lee Van Cleef, Anthony C ...

directed by Richard Bartlett, starring

Jock Mahoney Jacques Joseph O'Mahoney (February 7, 1919 – December 14, 1989), known professionally as Jock Mahoney, was an American actor and stuntman. He starred in two Action/Adventure television series, ''The Range Rider'' and ''Yancy Derringer''. He ...

and

Luana Patten Luana Patten (July 6, 1938 – May 1, 1996) was an American actress who appeared in films produced by Walt Disney Pictures, such as ''Song of the South'' (1946), ''Fun and Fancy Free'' (1947), and ''Melody Time'' (1948). Later in life, she pla ...

(plus

Lee van Cleef Clarence LeRoy Van Cleef Jr. (January 9, 1925 – December 16, 1989) was an American actor. He appeared in over 170 film and television roles in a career spanning nearly 40 years, but is best known as a star of Italian Spaghetti Westerns, parti ...

in a minor role).

Plot

In the 1971 movie, bandits track down a man named Joe who has a map to a fortune of stolen money taken in a bank robbery.

References

External links

* 1971 films 1970s Italian-language films Spaghetti Western films 1970s Italian films {{1970s-Italy-film-stub