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Cast: Clint Eastwood, Chief Dan George, Sondra Locke, Bill McKinney,
John Vernon, Paula Trueman, Sam Bottoms, Woodrow Parfrey; Directed by:
Clint Eastwood
Synopsis:
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 with that regiment,
Josey is pursued by U.S. cavalry soldiers led by the unwilling Fletcher and the
murderous Terrill, as well as by bounty hunters who eventually learn how coolly
lethal Wales can be. Despite his desire to remain a lone fugitive, Josey soon
has a crew of travelling companions that includes Cherokee Lone Watie (Chief Dan
George) and the pretty Laura Lee (Sondra Locke) and her vigorous Grandma Sarah
(Paula Trueman), settlers on their way to a ranch near ghost town Santa Rio. The
few Santa Rio residents welcome the group, but their peace and Josey's
burgeoning romance with Laura Lee are soon interrupted by Terrill's arrival. A
skillfully violent man of few, well-chosen words, Josey Wales resembles
Eastwood's previous Western heroes in Sergio Leone's trilogy, A Fistful of
Dollars (1964), For a Few Dollars More (1965), and The Good, the
Bad, and the Ugly (1966). However, the emphasis on friends and family served
notice that, in the words of one critic, "the Man With No Name doesn't live here
anymore." Indeed, Josey Wales would be Eastwood's last western before 1985's
Pale Rider. Although it did not garner similar critical praise when it was
released, Eastwood considers The Outlaw Josey Wales to be the equal of
the Oscar-winning "Unforgiven"
(1992).