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Genres:
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Action /
Drama /
Thriller /
Western /
Adventure /
Music
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Release:
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Director:
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Clint Eastwood
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Actors:
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John Vernon,
Royal Dano,
Woodrow Parfrey,
Paula Trueman,
Will Sampson,
Sheb Wooley,
Chief Dan George,
Geraldine Keams,
John Verros,
Clint Eastwood,
Sondra Locke,
Bill McKinney,
Sam Bottoms,
Joyce Jameson,
Matt Clark
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Duration:
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135 min.
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Rating:
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(7.8/10)122
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Plot Summary:
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Josey Wales makes his way west after the Civil War, determined to live a beneficial and useful subsistence. He joins up with a group of settlers who need the charge that a bloke as tough and experienced as he is can provide. Unfortunately, the on has a way of alluring up with you, and Josey is a wanted man.
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Outlaw Josey Wales, The
Clint Eastwood is Josey Wales: army of one. He's tough, laconic and compelling as ever against a magnificently battered post American civil war backdrop
Clint Eastwood's best western as director until Unforgiven, which he took over from the leisurely Philip Kaufman during shooting.
It contains familiar Clint themes: a man (a farmer) isolated (his family has been butchered) and bent on revenge. Ruthless and devoid of surface emotion, there are shades of Dirty Harry in his self-imposed moral code, at odds with the lawlessness of the post-Civil War era. His laconic approach to impending mayhem - "Are you going to pull those pistols, or whistle Dixie?" - also has Harry's "Do you feel lucky, punk?" about it.
Eastwood had learnt from Sergio Leone the int...
Not much of an outlaw, but a cracking Western.
Clint Eastwood finally proved that he was more than the protégé of Sergio Leone when it came to Westerns; he was able to make them on his own terms.
This is a brilliantly entertaining film, building on the undelivered potential of "Hang 'Em High" and "High Plains Drifter". Eastwood's Josey Wales is a man with nothing left to live for; he has buried his family, and is being hunted down by the men he once fought alongside.
Clintwood's camerawork is solid and effective, trying out shaky handheld shots as a contrast to the usual array of panoramas. We even get a glimpse of his attitude to violence (inherent in his 1991 classic "Unforgiven") when the outlaw decides to hang up his gun: "I guess we all died a little in the...
Outlaw Josey Wales, The
A remarkable film which sets out as a revenge Western: Eastwood sees his family massacred and joins the Confederate...
Outlaw Josey Wales, The
Bloodthirsty actioner in the matchless's normal loam; favoured to prove unintentionally funny in regard to hardened addicts.
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