The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
Average Rating: 8/10
Reviews Counted: 35
Fresh: 33 | Rotten: 2
Recreating the essence of his iconic Man With No Name in a post-Civil War Western, director Clint Eastwood delivered the first of his great revisionist works of the genre.
Average Rating: 6.2/10
Critic Reviews: 6
Fresh: 4 | Rotten: 2
Recreating the essence of his iconic Man With No Name in a post-Civil War Western, director Clint Eastwood delivered the first of his great revisionist works of the genre.
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Clint Eastwood's fifth film as a director and eighth Western as a star (ninth if you count Paint Your Wagon), The Outlaw Josey Wales chronicles the hero's violent journey westward after the Civil War. With fresh memoris of his family's slaughter by Red Leg soldier Terrill (Bill McKinney), Confederate Josey Wales (Eastwood) refuses to join his captain Fletcher (John Vernon) and the rest of his comrades in surrender to a U.S. Army regiment. Deemed a dangerous outlaw after a bloody one-man battle
Mar 30, 1999
Warner Home Video
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Cast
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Clint Eastwood
Josey Wales -
Chief Dan George
Lone Watie -
Sondra Locke
Laura Lee -
Bill McKinney
Terrill -
John Vernon
Fletcher -
Paula Trueman
Grandma Sarah -
Samuel Bottoms
Jamie -
Geraldine Keams
Little Moonlight -
Woodrow Parfrey
Carpetbagger -
Joyce Jameson
Rose -
Sheb Wooley
Cobb -
Royal Dano
Ten Spot -
John Verros
Chato -
Will Sampson
Ten Bears -
John Quade
Comanchero Leader -
Bruce M. Fischer
Yoke -
Erik Holland
Union Army Sergeant -
Buck Kartalian
Shopkeeper -
Len Lesser
Abe -
Doug McGrath
Lige -
John Mitchum
Al -
Clay Tanner
First Texas Ranger -
Charles Tyner
Zukie Limmer -
Matt Clark
Kelly -
John Russell
Bloody Bill Anderson -
Bob Hoy
Second Texas Ranger -
Cissy Wellman
Josey's Wife -
L. William O'Connell
Sim Carstairs -
Danny Green
Lemuel -
John Davis Chandler
First Bounty Hunter
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All Critics (35) | Top Critics (6) | Fresh (38) | Rotten (2) | DVD (22)
All in all, a very creditable film.
The screenplay is another one of those violence revues, with carnage production numbers slotted every so often.
[Eastwood] gets to the heart of the matter briskly, orchestrates his confrontations intelligently and gets off without lingering unduly over the resultant ugliness.
Demonstrated Eastwood's ability to recreate his first starring role, as the mythic Man with No Name of the Italian Westerns, and to subtly undercut it through comedy and mockery.
Top CriticEastwood is such a taciturn and action-oriented performer that it's easy to overlook the fact that he directs many of his movies -- and many of the best, most intelligent ones.
A soggy attempt at a post-Civil War western epic.
The remnants of war are fractious and far-flung in Clint Eastwood's impressive revisionist western, which looks as good as it ever will thanks to Warner Home Video.
An important movie in the maturation of Clint Eastwood as both actor and director.
Though the story is pat...there's pleasure to be had in the memorable one-liners, the irreverent humor...and the Western action against the backdrop of frontier scenery. [Blu-ray]
It's a powerful, revisionist, revenge Western with many unique touches.
An underrated early directorial effort by Clint Eastwood.
An epic journey to redemption, set against a riveting portrait of a battered country.
Fun western character study
Eastwood whups 'em again
One of Eastwood's earliest 5-star Western classics.
A top-notch Western.
Eastwood's brooding, bloody masterpiece.
Audience Reviews for The Outlaw Josey Wales
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- Josey Wales: Buzzards gotta eat too.
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- Fletcher: Don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining.
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- Lone Watie: This is a good place to die.
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- Terrill: Not a hard man to track. Leaves dead men wherever he goes.
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- Lone Watie: All I have is a piece of hard rock candy. But it's not for eatin'. It's just for lookin' through.
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- Josey Wales: Now remember, when things look bad and it looks like you're not gonna make it, then you gotta get mean. I mean plumb, mad-dog mean. Cause if you lose your head and you give up then you neither live nor win. That's just the way it is.
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Foreign Titles
- Der Texaner (DE)
- The Outlaw Joesy Wales (UK)
