The Outlaw Josey Wales

1976 • 135 minutes

About this movie

As The Outlaw Josey Wales, four-time Academy Award winner Clint Eastwood is ideally cast as a hard-hitting, fast-drawing loner, recalling his "Man with No Name" from his European Westerns. But unlike that other mythic outlaw, Josey Wales has a name -- and a heart. After avenging his family's brutal murder, Wales is on the lam, pursued by a pack of killers. He travels alone, but a ragtag group of outcasts (including Sondra Locke and Chief Dan George) is drawn to him -- and Wales can't leave his motley surrogate family unprotected. Eastwood's skills before and behind the camera connected with audiences for its humor and tenderness as well as its hair-trigger action.

Ratings and reviews

BUYER BEWARE. I love, love, love the TV version of this movie and saw that the rating in the Google Play store was PG so I assumed that it would not contain the nudity and attempted rape scene in the original. That was not the case. The rating in the store is obviously wrong! This was definitely the R rated version. Had it not been for that, I would have loved to have kept this in my Library. This movie contains some of my favorite iconic lines and scenes from any movie I've watched. Gave it 5 stars based on the TV version since I am evaluating the version of the movie I've watched over and over again and not the mistake Google Play made in their rating.

Great flick, a must see if not own, 1 of Eastwoods best Westerns ever made. I have seen it over 100 times, almost as much as Star Wars Saga

Classic Clint, I personally think that this is the best way to describe this movie. The best of all the great works from Clint Eastwood, and I must admit that this film has been one of my personal favorite since childhood. I recommend that you watch this classic vintage Eastwood film.