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The Outlaw Josey Wales

1976

Clint Eastwood

Clint Eastwood, Chief Dan George, Sondra Locke, John Vernon ...

7.4

10,350

Western The film opens as Union soldiers destroy the home and family of Missouri farmer Josey Wales (Eastwood). He joins up with Confederate soldiers to get his revenge, and, after years of battle, refuses to surrender to Terrill (McKinney), the man responsible for his family's death. He rescues Jamie (Bottoms), a wounded young rebel, from the Union soldiers, who send Terrill and the reluctant Fletcher (Vernon) after them. Josey and Jamie next ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"Eastwood is such a taciturn and action-oriented performer that it's easy to overlook the fact that he directs many of his movies - and many of the best, most intelligent ones (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Ian Nathan Empire	"A truly great Western from Clint that is bleakly atmospheric and charming in turns (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Variety	"The screenplay is another one of those violence revues"	NEG
United States	Richard Schickel Time	"[Eastwood] gets to the heart of the matter briskly, orchestrates his confrontations intelligently and gets off without lingering unduly over the resultant ugliness."	POS
United Kingdom	Phil Hardy Time Out	"A remarkable film which sets out as a revenge Western (...) The film demonstrated Eastwood's ability to recreate his first starring role, as the mythic Man with No Name	POS
United States	Chris Cabin Slant	"Eastwood's impressive revisionist western (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Andre Dellamorte Collider	"The first film [Eastwood] made that can be called a masterpiece is 'The Outlaw Josey Wales'."	POS
United Kingdom	Tony Sloman Radio Times	"There's much strength and power to be derived from the iconographic value of Eastwood the star (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Louis Black Austin Chronicle	"A nearly perfect Western (...) [it] combines Eastwood's character-drivensensibility and the Western cynicism he learned from Sergio Leone with screenwriter/original director Philip Kaufman's sharp narrative"	POS

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