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Watch: The Outlaw Josey Wales 1976 123movies, Full Movie Online – Josey Wales (Clint Eastwood) makes his way west after the Civil War, determined to live a useful and helpful life. He joins up with a group of settlers who need the protection that a man as tough and experienced as he is can provide. Unfortunately, the past has a way of catching up with you, and Josey is a wanted man..
Plot: After avenging his family’s brutal murder, Wales is pursued by a pack of soldiers. He prefers to travel alone, but ragtag outcasts are drawn to him – and Wales can’t bring himself to leave them unprotected.
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	7.8/10 Votes: 74,342
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Reviews:

**_One of the Great Westerns_**

The Civil War is over and the remaining rebels in Missouri are encouraged to turn over their weapons and pledge loyalty to the Union, but Josey Wales (Clint Eastwood) hold out and thus a generous reward is put on his head. Josey heads to West Texas and maybe Mexico to find sanctuary, but will he make it alive? The cast includes the likes of Bill McKinney, John Vernon, Sondra Locke, Chief Dan George, Sam Bottoms and Will Sampson.

“The Outlaw Josey Wales” (1976) is Eastwood’s best Western and a standout of the genre. Everything clicks for a top-of-the-line drama/adventure. A critic said that Wales’ encounter with the Federals in the first act establishes him as invincible and thus destroys any sense of suspense. No, it just means that he caught the soldiers by surprise and he escaped the clash unscathed with a mixture of skill and luck. A later scene reveals he’s decidedly mortal.

The movie starts with the typical Bob Steele revenge plot and soon morphs into a trail movie (similar to a “road movie,” but with horses). As such, some interesting characters come-and-go (or, more accurately, come-and-die), but several stay on. It’s a string of memorable episodes on the long trail, like the river crossing and Josey’s well-done pow-wow with Ten Bears (Will Sampson). I like the emphasis on how an outcast can acquire an unconventional family, even if inadvertently.

The film runs 2 hours, 15 minutes, and was shot in Oroville, California; Arizona; and Kanab Movie Ranch, Utah. Wyoming is also listed.

GRADE: A

A little overlong, though ‘The Outlaw Josey Wales’ is an entertaining watch – with cool action sequences and a pleasing ending.

You have a strong performance from Clint Eastwood and good support showings from the likes of Chief Dan George and John Vernon. The plot is interesting and the road-esque nature of it keeps it moving well. I do think they could’ve trimmed the run time slightly, while Eastwood’s character really didn’t need to spit so much – on a dog and some insects, no less. Just bizarre, it adds zero and simply becomes an irritation.

A sequel, without the involvement of Eastwood, was released ten years after this – I’m intrigued to check it out.

One Of My Favorite Westerns
Clint Eastwood has directed, played in or starred in a lot of westerns. We all have our favorites and this my favorite Eastwood western, along with the more set-in-modern-day western, “Bronco Billy.” (The latter is really a drama more than a western.)

This is simply an extremely entertaining story with two lead characters – played by Eastwood and Chief Dan George – who were fascinating to watch. Also, as in most westerns, I enjoyed the good photography and was surprised, considering the year of release, that the language was pretty tame.

George has always been a favorite Native American actor for many people. He gets choice roles playing likable guys, and “Lone Watie” character here is no exception. Eastwood, as ” Josey Wales,” reverts successfully back to his “Man with no name” persona: you know, the strong silent and somewhat mean type. He’s a lot like the characters John Wayne played late in his career. He best portrays this with scenes like the one in which he spits tobacco on his dog!

In addition, there are some solid actors in minor roles, people like John Vernon, Sondra Locke and Bill McKinney, Will Sampson, Sheb Wooley and Sam Bottoms, among others. I was surprised Locke, Eastwood’s girlfriend or wife at the time, didn’t have a bigger role. With her youthful looks and great big eyes, she looked prettier than I’ve ever seen her, although she never was a glamor girl or got many good parts.

At 136 minutes, this is a bit long but it never drags. This is one of the very few movies I ever watched twice within two weeks and enjoyed it immensely both times….and each time since.

The Battle Hymn of Dixie…
With a Magnum .44, Clint Eastwood asked how lucky you felt, as Josey Wales, he doesn’t even need to pull his pistols… but you’d better whistle Dixie once he’s done asking.

And as usual, words are still less eloquent than the stares emerging from the shadows over his eyes or that nasty spitting habit that works like poetic punctuation marks in sentences written by the sole power of his death-pending silences. In fact, whether for tobacco juice, juicy one-liners or bullets, Eastwood sure knows how to deliver!

Yet “The Outlaw Josey Wales” is more than a crossover of ‘Dirty Harry’ and the ‘Dollar’ Trilogy but it couldn’t work if Eastwood pretended to ignore the characters who made him a star. He actually plays with his trademark with brilliant self-awareness. For instance, the way he’s got the sun in his back to make him look more menacing has often been a directing technique rather than a plot element. Wales mentions it as a necessity, in order to have an edge over the enemy.

Later, he rescues Grandma Sarah (Paula Trueman) and her granddaughter Laura Lee (Sondra Locke) from Comancheros. Lone Watie, his old Native companion played by the irresistible Chief Dan George can anticipate every single move,like a fan watching his favorite movie … and when the talk is over, he warns the ladies that “hell’s coming for breakfast”. Wales can’t be an artificial character because his tricks are survival keys. Someone who lost his family can’t afford any deficit in anticipation anyway.

And our own anticipations are always toyed with for either comedic or dramatic purposes. The initial encounter with Lone Watie is funny in a touching way because the old Indian realized a white man has been sneaking up on him, which means he’s been slipping. Later, he managed to take his revenge only to be surprised by a gun-cocking hello from Little Moonlight (Geraldine Keams). Chief Dan George is a real delight of Oscar-worthy talent. With bittersweet lucidity, he embodies the resignation of someone who doesn’t see himself as a Native only, but a tired old man too civilized to fit in the world, but he tries.

But let’s get back to the anticipation, another highlight from the movie (which is saying a lot) is the peace talk with the Comanche chief. “You be Ten Bears?” asks Wales. “I am Ten Bears” retorts the charismatic commander with perfect English, he’s played by the unforgettable Will Sampson. The genius of this exchange lies on the set-up, everything seemed to “indicate” a coming bloodshed but a simple and straightforward man-to-man talk solves the situation. Yet if it wasn’t for the “get ready” scene before, the “it shall be life’ wouldn’t have been as emotionally satisfying, unpredictability is the film’s strongest suit especially when it’s played for quiet drama moments instead of action.

And this is how, for all its kinship with the ‘Dollar’ trilogy, the film manages to reconcile the revisionist with the old-school vision and its gallery of colorful characters, bounty hunters, settlers, Natives, cavalry, bartenders, saloon girls and carpetbaggers. Even Wales, the lone wolf, gets along with his new companions. Chief Dan George and Paula Trueman can also talk about ‘pale faces’ and ‘redskins’ because there’s no offense possible between them. The film shifts from the usual animosity between American and Natives to actually reveal an even worse hatred between Americans.

The opening is quite savage on that level. Wales, a peaceful Missouri peasant, witnesses the killing of his wife and son by a Union militia called Redlegs and lead by Captain Terril (Bill McKinney). The grief-stricken man vows revenge and joins the Confederate counterpart lead by Fletcher (John Vernon), and their band leads no-less merciless rides… economically displayed during the opening credits sequence. The real story commences at the end of the war, Wales grew a beard, looks meaner, and refuses to surrender in exchange of amnesty.

Once again, anticipation is everything and his instinct prevents him from being shot in an ambush from which young Jamie (Sam Bottoms) is the only one escapee. The Union soldiers executed their former enemies, hypocritically ignoring that war crimes were from both sides and the border states was the setting of fratricide murders… like a Civil War within the Civil War. Anyway, with a reward over his head, Wales , crosses the path of many bounty hunters who’d learn at their expenses that dying ain’t such a way to make a living. And the more dead left to buzzard, the bigger the legend grows.

Still, the story is less about the chase than the new perspective it has to offer on the Civil War. It wasn’t just a right cause against an archaic system or the “Battle Hymn of Republic” against “Dixie”, but savagery dictated by the tragic randomness of borders and the cruel calculations of politicians who, unlike people, don’t live together. And the way Natives and Whites get along in the film prove that in Eastwood’s Western universe, there’s no place anymore for binary thinking, a stance probably inherited from the revisionist wave, Sam Peckinpah, Sergio Leone or Arthur Penn who showed the human side of Natives in “Little Big Man”, and did so with depth and humor.

In the post-Vietnam days, Westerns ironically stopped to be the exaltation of a nostalgic past but the echo of the political disillusion of a lost generation. In 1976, Western neo-classics were past their prime and Clint Eastwood was not an established director yet, but he found the right tone and the right story, as if only he could reconcile between the new and old school, make a humanistic story from material written by a KKK apologist, or a politically relevant drama out of a period film.

There was no pretension or trendy thinking, he just saw the potential of the character and he was right. The film found its public and gets better after each viewing.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 2 hr 15 min (135 min)
Budget 3700000
Revenue 31800000
Status Released
Rated PG
Genre Western
Director Clint Eastwood
Writer Forrest Carter, Philip Kaufman, Sonia Chernus
Actors Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Chief Dan George
Country United States
Awards Nominated for 1 Oscar. 1 win & 2 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono
Aspect Ratio 2.39 : 1
Camera Panavision Cameras and Lenses
Laboratory DeLuxe, Hollywood (CA), USA (color)
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm (Eastman 100T 5254)
Cinematographic Process Panavision (anamorphic)
Printed Film Format 35 mm