It closes like it opened, as Clint returns to being a simple farmer. The film turns away from its revenge motives and gives Clint a human heart. Though reluctant, at first, Josey helps this group locate to the Promised Land they are seeking (an abandoned farm in the ghost town near Santa Rio). Laura’s spirited grandma Sarah (Paula Trueman) is one of the more vocal outcasts. One of the outcasts, Laura Lee (Sondra Locke), Josey saves from a rape and develops a love interest in. Josey dispatches a platoon of Union soldiers and many of the bounty hunters, and eventually hooks up with an old Indian chief, Lone Watie (Chief Dan George), and some other outcasts. Josey is pursued by Terrill and his Union posse, a reluctant Captain Fletcher, a series of vicious lawmen and scores of bounty hunters. Josey rescues a young wounded comrade Jamie (Sam Bottoms) and takes the dying man along as he continues on as an outlaw, fleeing to Texas with a price on his head. After the Confederacy loses the war Wales refuses to surrender to his superior officer and former friend Fletcher (John Vernon), who betrays his men after being paid by the Union. Josey turns Confederate guerrilla raider during the war to get revenge on Terrill. It opens with peaceful Missouri farmer Josey Wales left helpless as a malevolent gang of Union Red Legs, led by Captain Terrill (Bill McKinney), sets his home on fire, killing his wife and son. But Clint soon became disenchanted with Kaufman’s slow-paced style of film-making and fired him shortly after filming began, taking over the directing honors himself. Producer Clint Eastwood hired Philip Kaufman to direct and write the script with Sonia Chernus. It was later discovered that his real name was Asa Carter, and that he was a former member of the KKK and speechwriter for George Wallace. Forrest Carter is the author of the novel the film was based on. (director: Clint Eastwood screenwriters: based on the book Gone to Texas by Forrest Carter/Philip Kaufman/Sonia Chernus cinematographer: Bruce Surtees editor: Ferris Webster music: Jerry Fielding cast: Clint Eastwood (Josey Wales), Chief Dan George (Lone Watie), Sondra Locke (Laura Lee), Bill McKinney (Terrill), John Vernon (Fletcher), Paula Trueman (Grandma Sarah), Sam Bottoms (Jamie), Cissy Wellman (Josey’s wife), Will Sampson (Ten Bears), Geraldine Keams (Little Moonlight) Runtime: 135 MPAA Rating: PG producers: Robert Daley/Fritz Manes Warner Brothers 1976)Ī top-notch Western directed and starring Clint Eastwood (“High Plains Drifter”/”Unforgiven”).
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