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  The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
In the build-up to the American Civil War, Josey Wales (Clint Eastwood) is content to till his land with loving wife and son.
While nominally a loner, even Josey has, and needs, a place in the community (a structure which is shown to underpin and give shape to the society as a whole).
Surrounding the taciturn but quite human Josey, Chief Dan George is exquisite as the wronged chief, full of life and experience, while Grandma Sarah (Paula Trueman) is his equal in every way, combining crusty belligerence and an indomitable spirit in a powder-keg of little old lady.
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  REELINSIDER.COM - THE OUTLAW JOSEY WALES (1976)
Beat up and thrown to the ground Josey is witness to his wife's rape and murder, his son's killing and the burning of his home after being left for dead with a nasty gash across the face.
As a Malpaso Company project The Outlaw Josey Wales was a wholly produced entertainment within the confines of Eastwood's artistic universe that was then beginning to take the shape of the family enterprise it later became with a consistently employed group of artisans on both sides of the camera.
In short he is a potent allegory of the 1870s and 1970s that asserts the fallibility of governments and of countries overstepping their bounds in the face of individuals who struggle for the right to live according to the demands of civility and peace.
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 What Books: The Outlaw Josey Wales [1976]
THE OUTLAW JOSEY WALES is adapted from Forrest Carter's novel Gone To Texas, a tale of the 'Jayhawkers' - groups of diehard Confederates who refused to give-in and made their way to Mexico to fight with French-imposed Emperor Maximilian against the Juaristas (the Liberales of Benito Juarez and others).
THE OUTLAW JOSEY WALES was hailed as 'The Last Of The Great Westerns,' almost a tacit acknowledgement that the once-great genre was in its death throes.
Wales escapes only to be relentlessly hunted down by the very men who had wronged him, as well as by bounty hunters who want that five thousand dollar reward offered for his capture.
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 The Outlaw Josey Wales
Helplessly farmer Josey Wales (Clint Eastwood) has to watch as his wife is raped and killed and his little son is burned to death inside the family’s house, when ravaging soldiers invade and destroy the family idyll out of nowhere during the civil war.
Josey, the only survivor of the massacre becomes an avenger and joins a band of rebels who hunt down all such bandits and oppose the newly founded union.
“The Outlaw Josey Wales” is one of the few films of its time that portrayed Indians as a soulful people who have lost their ground and most of their hope.
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 Outlaw Josey Wales   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Josey Wales is a peaceful Missouri farmer in 1861, whose life is shattered when his wife and child are brutally murdered by the “Red Legs,” a post war band of looters/terrorists.
Wales joins up with a band of guerrillas who wreak vengeance on the Red Legs, until finally offered clemency by the Union Army: a deal that is accepted by all of the guerrillas except Wales.
The Outlaw Josey Wales is a brutal and exhilarating film, that tackles the serious issues of the ongoing animosity that continued between the North and South after the War Between the States had been decided, as well as the complex ideas of honor and justice.
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 DVDFILE.COM: The Outlaw Josey Wales review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
But as much as Eastwood's Josey Wales is a haunted man, avenging his past, it shown too that he hasn't been so beaten down that he's incapable of caring about people.
Outlaw Josey Wales is also notable cinematically, with beautiful, spare, low key photography by Bruce Surtees that evokes Ford's great westerns (check out the dark interiors with the brilliant sunlight streaming in through the open door).
Outlaw Josey Wales is presented in anamorphic widescreen at an aspect ratio of approximately 2.35:1.
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 Linux Week :: The Outlaw Josey Wales   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Wales (Clint Eastwood) is a Missouri farmer who sees his wife and son slaughtered by Union redlegs (Kansas terrorists).
Josey then joins the fight and he is soon on the run to the Indian Nations.
Josey is a loner who just wants his solitude but by the end of the movie his entourage includes two Native Americans, one old lady, a pretty young girl (Sondra Locke), a couple of guys who frequent the local dry saloon, a dance hall girl PLUS a dog!!!
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 The Outlaw Josey Wales Dvd   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Josey Wales is a farmer turned fugitive in the post-civil war south who is chased by the law after he avenges the murder of his family and friends.
Magnificent, bloody, and ultimately extremely touching, THE OUTLAW JOSEY WALES puts a spin on the revenge Western, for this is a tale of forgetting revenge, and finding a way to live again.
I like his "Dirty Harry" subject matter better, but "Josey" is beautifully paced, timeless, and an endless volley of wit and digs between Josey and the others.
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 DVD Times - The Outlaw Josey Wales Special Edition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Josey Wales, a farmer in a quiet part of the South during the civil war, finds him home invaded by Union soldiers who burn his house and murder his wife and children.
However, when the war ends and Fletcher decides to surrender to the Union troops, Josey turns out to be harder to turn off than he was to switch on and he refuses to give in to the men who killed his family.
Josey Wales begins as yet another "stranger" figure, of the sort which Eastwod made his own in the sixties, living up to his Civil War reputation as a savage killer.
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 Josey Wales MP3 Downloads - Josey Wales Music Downloads - Josey Wales Music Videos
Josey Wales was one of dancehall's founding fathers, building on the innovative DJ chatting of his mentor U-Roy and creating a highly influential style of his own.
Wales' first recordings were live performances issued on producer Bunny Roots' label, but he didn't enter the studio until he hooked up with the foremost producer in early dancehall, Henry "Junjo" Lawes.
In 1997, Wales was robbed at a Kingston bar and managed to survive gunshot wounds; the incident briefly revitalized his recording career, as he scored Jamaican hits with the singles "Bush Wacked" and "Who Shot the Colonel" later that year.
www.mp3.com /josey-wales/artists/17355/biography.html   (731 words)

  
 DVD.net : The Outlaw Josey Wales - DVD Review
Josey sets off with revenge on his mind and joins a guerrilla outfit of soldiers waging their own battle against the Union.
When Josey goes his own way and the group is slaughtered, Josey has a bounty put on his head and goes on the run.
Josey Wales carries on this high standard with an excellent 2.35:1 16x9 enhanced picture which really pays dividends when framing single characters to great effect or rendering long shots of the landscape.
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 The Outlaw Josey Wales   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
But one day, while Josey was out plowin' up a patch o' dirt to plant some vegetables, he saw smoke risin' up from the woods where his house should be.
When Wales came to, his family was dead and his house had been burnt to cinders.
Josey raced in from the trees in time to kill a sizable portion of the Union camp all by his lonesome, and then he escaped with one of his former companions.
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 Amazon.co.uk: DVD: The Outlaw Josey Wales [1976]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976), Clint Eastwood's 31st film as an actor, 20th as international star and 5th as director, was the first to win him widespread respect.
The film tells the story of Josey Wales, a Missouri farmer who, towards the end of the Civil War, finds his home overrun by renegade union soldiers who set fire to his homestead, kill his wife and son, and leave him for dead.
Josey Wales starts as the average farmer trying to make an honest life but his life takes a horrible turn when his wife and son are slaughtered by Red Legs.
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 DVDlaunch.com: The Outlaw Josey Wales review
Clint Eastwood stars in one of his own directing triumphs, that being "The Outlaw Josey Wales." The film follows Josey Wales (Eastwood), a farmer who's home is destroyed and son and wife are murdered (this is all within the first five minutes).
Josey's motive is purely revenge for those who destroyed his life, but it's because of the past which haunts him and his own values is what ultimatly drives him to more danger.
One of Clint Eastwood's greatest triumphs, "The Outlaw Josey Wales" is one of the best cinematic Westerns in my opinion that I feel everyone should see at least once.
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 THE OUTLAW JOSEY WALES: The Story 3: Josey and Laura Lee
The way Josey reacts to Laura Lee when she says this is one of the most subtle, comedic moments of the film that I love.
I think what attracts Josey to Laura Lee is her outlook on life, her optimism, which he lost when his family was slaughtered, and that he felt she needed someone to protect her and take care of her.
Josey was a "Missouri ruffian" and, in fact, was one of Bloody Bill Anderson's militia who went to Kansas to hunt down the Redlegs and "set things aright".
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 The Outlaw Josey Wales - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Outlaw Josey Wales is a 1976 western movie set at the end of the American Civil War in which a peaceful farmsteader, driven to revenge by the savage and brutal slaying of his family by Union irregulars, joins up with a group of Confederate rebels.
After the war, he tries to escape from union troops and bounty hunters chasing him while still seeking vengeance and a chance for a new beginning.
Clint Eastwood has stated in interviews that this is his favorite of all his films.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Outlaw_Josey_Wales   (216 words)

  
 The Outlaw Josey Wales
Josey Wales: Now remember, things look bad and it looks like you're not gonna make it, then you gotta get mean.
Josey Wales: Yeah, well, I always heard there were three kinds of suns in Kansas, sunshine, sunflowers, and sons-of-bitches.
Josey Wales: This boy was brought up in a time of blood and dying and never questioned a bit of it.
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 The Outlaw Josey Wales mistakes, goofs and bloopers
Josey easily shoots the soldiers but somehow misses all the horses they were mounted on.
Continuity: When Josey, Lone Watie, and the Indian woman stop in a town, Josey listens to the General store clerk who hands him a postcard that shows "Slim Fixin" after he was killed.
Continuity: The Josey says to Laura, "I'm from Missouri - you'll have to show me." The "show me" line was first publicized in a speech by the Governor of Missouri in 1899, several years after the movie was set.
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 Movie Database - [TV Guide Online]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Josey and Jamie next pick up two Cherokees (George and Keams), a stray dog, and, after rescuing them from Comanches, an elderly woman (Trueman) and her granddaughter (Locke).
Josey manages to make peace with the Comanches, but the Union soldiers are another story.
THE OUTLAW JOSEY WALES is a cautiously optimistic epic, deeply rooted in the history of America.
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 Amazon.ca: The Outlaw Josey Wales: Video: Clint Eastwood,Chief Dan George,Sondra Locke,Bill McKinney,John Vernon,Paula ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Josey Wales(Clint Eastwood) is a peaceful farmer in Missouri with a family in the middle of the Civil War.
In another one Josey Wales(and his six-shooter) all by himself is up against 10-15 bandits...In the last one, Josey Wales and his Six-shooter, go toe-to-toe against tens of horse-riding soldiers...
Wales comes to be the guiding scout and protector to an unlikely and very mixed bag of characters (all played with sound realism)as he is continually and almost reluctantly hounded by his former ally Fletcher.
www.amazon.ca /Outlaw-Josey-Wales-Clint-Eastwood/dp/0790736578   (1462 words)

  
 DVD Verdict Review - The Outlaw Josey Wales
The Outlaw Josey Wales has a hero with a heart, and a story that brings out the best of the western genre.
One of those four is The Outlaw Josey Wales, and was one of the first discs I bought when I got a player.
The story begins with Josey Wales as a Missouri farmer with a wife and son early in the Civil War.
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 GreenCine | product main - The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
Deemed a dangerous outlaw after a bloody one-man battle with that regiment, Josey is pursued by U.S. cavalry soldiers led by the unwilling Fletcher and the murderous Terrill, as well as by bounty hunters who eventually learn how coolly lethal Wales can be.
Despite his desire to remain a lone fugitive, Josey soon has a crew of travelling companions that includes Cherokee Lone Watie (Chief Dan George) and the pretty Laura Lee (Sondra Locke) and her vigorous Grandma Sarah (Paula Trueman), settlers on their way to a ranch near ghost town Santa Rio.
Although it did not garner similar critical praise when it was released, Eastwood considers The Outlaw Josey Wales to be the equal of the Oscar-winning Unforgiven (1992).
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 Opus // Movies // Outlaw Josey Wales, The
The way Josey Wales keeps to himself and internally battles good and evil as he picks up lively characters along the way shows more complexity than the typical unknown gunslinger.
The Outlaw's heart is put to the flame when he meets Laura Lee (Locke), saving her from the raping and pillaging that upset her family's camp.
Though the Outlaw realizes his life must return to some normalcy in the heat of his revenge, the bullets he puts in those hunting him are priceless.
www.opuszine.com /movies/review.html?reviewID=117   (588 words)

  
 The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976) - Memorable quotes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Josey Wales: Now remember, things look bad and it looks like you're not gonna make it, then you gotta get mean.
Josey Wales: Yeah, well, I always heard there were three kinds of suns in Kansas, sunshine, sunflowers, and sons-of-bitches.
Josey Wales: This boy was brought up in a time of blood and dying and never questioned a bit of it.
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 Amazon.com: The Outlaw Josey Wales: DVD: Sam Bottoms,Matt Clark,Royal Dano,Chief Dan George,Joyce Jameson,Buck ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976), Clint Eastwood's 31st film as an actor, 20th as international star, and 5th as director, was the first to win him widespread respect.
Wales escapes only to be relentlessly hunted down by the very men who had wronged him, as well as by bounty hunters who want that five thousand dollar reward offered for his capture.
Wales rides on to escape them, and along his travels acquires a motley entourage whom he befriends and who befriend him.
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 The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Westerns that stand in stature alongside Josey Wales: The Searchers, One Eyed Jacks, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Fort Apache, and The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.
The Boetticher and Mann '50s westerns with James Stewart and Randolph Scott are probably the real spiritual predecessors of this film, although, stylistically, Eastwood has clearly studied his Ford and paid close attention to Leone.
The ending of The Outlaw Josey Wales is, in a word, what the ending of Gangs would have been if the focus groups and script doctors and the Great Scorcese had gotten the thing right.
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 outlaw josey wales - infos
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