The Outlaw Josey Wales (Special Edition) (Wide Screen)
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Production Year: 1976 - Westerns - Director: Clint Eastwood - Original Language: English - Classification: 18 years and over

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As the film opens, Josey Wales is a simple farmer in Missouri. When a vicious band of Union Red Legs, led by Terrill (Bill McKinney), burns his home to the ground, killing his wife...
more...and son, Wales joins a gang of Confederate raiders, determined to get revenge. After the Confederacy loses the war, Wales sets out on his own, an outlaw who kills to survive. He eventually meets an old Indian (Chief Dan George, in a wonderfully sympathetic performance) and some other outcasts, and together they seek out a more peaceful existence. But Terrill continues to hunt Wales, and the simple farmer is forced to fight again. Critics did not take Clint Eastwood's THE OUTLAW JOSEY WALES seriously in 1976. Today, many consider it one of the greatest Westerns ever made. Here the West is an ugly and brutal place, as it is in Sergio Leone's films, but this is a different kind of Eastwood hero. He has a name, a sense of humor, and a heart. Made in the shadow of Vietnam and Watergate, the film conveys a bitter distrust of government but also a longing to live in peace. Next to UNFORGIVEN, this is the most sweeping and emotionally complex of Eastwood's Westerns.





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Review of The Outlaw Josey Wales (Special Edition) (Wide Screen) by nebcsa17th

Advantages: Great action
Disadvantages: None

This is probebly the best movie that Eastwood made. It has everything from betrayal of friends to trust of strangers & loss of everything you have to a chance of a new begining. One of thoes rare times when a film has done justice to the book. A great western about a man who loses his family at the beginning of the civil war to redlegs rampaging the south. His only way to get back at them is to join the confederates and fight them all. When the war ... Read review

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Review of The Outlaw Josey Wales (Special Edition) (Wide Screen) by DeGuvnor

Advantages: One of Eastood's best westerns
Disadvantages: Can't think of any

...family and then betrayal at the end of the civil war, Josey Wales acquires a collection of characters (including an aged Indian who enjoys sneaking up on people and a young girl - played by Sondra Locke - who he saves from being raped) andbecomes a guide and protector. It is an engaging story and as a movie sits well alongside the spaghetti pix Clint Eastwood had previously made. He is the director here as well - the movie shows the promise he was ... Read review

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The Outlaw Josey Wales [1976]
During the Civil War, Union "Redlegs" attack Southerner Josey Wales's dirt farm and wipe ... more
out his family. Seeking vengeance, Wales throws in
with a company of Reb guerrillas. Tagged as a
renegade after the surrender, he flees west into
the vastness of t...
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