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 Caruso and Paul Birch.

[1][2][3] Joe Dakota, a handsome, mysterious, and not exactly pleasant man, reaches Arborville, an isolated oil-seeking community in California.

He is seeking a former Indian scout who allegedly left the town after having sold real estate.

Joe soon uncovers an unpleasant truth about the townsfolk and their oil well, which was built on the site of the Indian scout's farm.