Outlaw Josey Wales The (1976)
Outlaw Josey Wales The (1976)
This is one of my favorite Clint Eastwood films and he directed himself in the title role. It has one of the best stories and features some of the best action sequences IMO of any of his Westerns. It’s musical Score was Oscar nominated. It was added to the National Film Registry in 1996.
After the Civil War having served an honorable man Fletcher (John Vernon) that was tricked by higher authorities Clint (the title character) settles down as a farmer. Then his property is burned and his family killed by a bunch of renegades. He receives a scar across the face when he’s hit by the butt of a rifle and is knocked out. While recovering he teaches himself to shoot while he plots his revenge. He then sets out to find each and every one of the men responsible in order to kill them. He is mostly successful so the authorities send Fletcher out to find and stop him. About this time Clint has met and joined with a Native Americans (Chief Dan George). They run across a "green" pioneering family headed West which includes a pretty young Sandra Locke. So he helps them having to make peace with the local Indian chief Ten Bears (Will Sampson). But he’s yet to find the last of the men he’d hunted and Fletcher is on his tail.
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