The Outlaw Josey Wales - 1976
...an army of one.
Director(s)
Clint Eastwood
Writer(s)
Forrest Carter (novel Gone to Texas)
Philip Kaufman (screenplay) (as Phil Kaufman) and
Sonia Chernus (screenplay)
Producer(s)
Robert Daley producer
James Fargo associate producer (as Jim Fargo)
John G. Wilson associate producer
Cast
Clint Eastwood - Josey Wales
Chief Dan George - Lone Watie
Sondra Locke - Laura Lee
Bill McKinney - Terrill
John Vernon - Fletcher
Paula Trueman - Grandma Sarah
Sam Bottoms - Jamie
Geraldine Keams - Little Moonlight
Woodrow Parfrey - Carpetbagger
Joyce Jameson - Rose
Sheb Wooley - Travis Cobb
Royal Dano - Ten Spot
Matt Clark - Kelly (as Matt Clarke)
John Verros - Chato
Will Sampson - Ten Bears
William O'Connell - Sim Carstairs
John Quade - Comanchero leader
Frank Schofield - Sen. Lane
Buck Kartalian - Shopkeeper
Len Lesser - Abe
Doug McGrath - Lige
John Russell - Bloody Bill Anderson
Charles Tyner - Zukie Limmer
Bruce M. Fischer - Yoke
John Mitchum - Al
John Davis Chandler - Bounty hunter #1 (as John Chandler)
Tom Roy Lowe - Bounty hunter #2
Clay Tanner - Texas Ranger #1
Robert F. Hoy - Texas Ranger #2 (as Bob Hoy)
Madeline Taylor Holmes - Grannie Hawkins (as Madeline T. Holmes)
Erik Holland - Union Army sergeant
Cissy Wellman - Josey's wife
Faye Hamblin - Grandpa Samuel
Danny Green - Lemuel
Kyle Eastwood - Josey's son (uncredited)
Richard Farnsworth - Comanchero (uncredited)
Review by Jack Gattanella
The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
One of the better Eastwood westerns I've seen
I haven't seen that many Clint Eastwood westerns (outside of the Leone films, Unforgiven, Two Mules for Sister Sara, and High Plains Drifter), but I remember this one from about a month and a half ago, and like Eastwood's best, I got drawn into the story, and into the sympathies of the lead character, which I felt was the strong-point under the actor/director's control: a farmer, who's moved on from his old days, is living in the woods with his family. When a group of bandits come and burn down his house and kill his family, he gets devastated. Devastated enough, that is, to join up with a group of soldiers, left off from the confederacy, who are still after the union even though the war's over. Soon Josey Wales becomes an Outlaw, and is still on the track to seek vengeance on those who destroyed his life, but he can try to get back on track somehow.
I wouldn't say this is a masterpiece of a Western- a couple of minutes I was hoping the film would get along to what I was hoping would happen next. However, I was more often than not pleased greatly by the skill and grace Eastwood had with telling his story, and indeed in this film the viewer gets a chance to see Eastwood in a slightly different performance than in his past films (for one thing he does go through an emotional shake-em-up before the opening credits). And there are some good, nearly breath-taking gun fights to go along with it. A
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