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The Outlaw Josey Wales, 1976

Starring: Clint Eastwood, Chief Dan George

Directed by: Clint Eastwood

Written by: Philip Kaufman

Language: English

Country: USA

Runtime: 135 min

MPAA Rating:

Rating:7.8

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The mood of The Outlaw Josey Wales is rough, suspenseful, and bleak. The plot centers around fugitives, antiheroes, and vengeance. It is a drama and western movie. In approach, The Outlaw Josey Wales is serious and realistic. The setting is Missouri and Texas. It happens during the American Civil War and in the Old West. The Outlaw Josey Wales is based on a book. The movie is known for being a masterpiece, essential viewing, and critically acclaimed. Note that it includes violent content.

Summary of The Outlaw Josey Wales

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 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.