Because newspapers don't make their way out to rural parts of the state, and because he is literate, Kidd earns a few meager cents by riding from city to city reading newspapers aloud to the locals in exchange for an admission fee. On the road, he passes a lynched Black man, and, in the man's abandoned horse cart, finds Johanna (Helena Zengel), a young blonde girl who, bafflingly, only speaks Kiowa. The bulk of the film follows Kidd and Johanna on their long roadtrip home, with Kidd stopping along the way to read newspapers — and occasionally killing ruffian former Confederates who want to buy and/or accost Cicada.
Author: staff@slashfilm.com (Witney Seibold)
Published at: 2025-07-05 20:20:00
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