Not to be confused with the Jamaican deejay Josey Wales.
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Theatrical release poster
Directed by
Clint Eastwood
Screenplay by
Phil Kaufman
Sonia Chernus
Based on
Gone to Texas by Forrest Carter
Produced by
Robert Daley
Starring
Clint Eastwood
Chief Dan George
Sondra Locke
Bill McKinney
John Vernon
Cinematography
Bruce Surtees
Edited by
Ferris Webster
Music by
Jerry Fielding
Production company
The Malpaso Company
Distributed by
Warner Bros.
Release date
June 30, 1976 (1976-06-30)
Running time
135 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$3.7 million[1]
Box office
$31.8 million[2]
The Outlaw Josey Wales is a 1976 American revisionist Western film set during and after the American Civil War.[3] It was directed by and starred Clint Eastwood (as Josey Wales), with Chief Dan George, Sondra Locke, Bill McKinney and John Vernon.[4][5] The film tells the story of Josey Wales, a Missouri farmer whose family is murdered by Union militia during the Civil War. Driven to revenge, Wales joins a Confederate guerrilla band and makes a name for himself as a feared gunfighter. After the war, all the fighters in Wales' group except for him surrender to Union soldiers, but the Confederates end up being massacred. Wales becomes an outlaw and is pursued by bounty hunters and Union soldiers as he tries to make a new life for himself.
The film was adapted by Sonia Chernus and Philip Kaufman from author Asa Earl "Forrest" Carter's 1972 novel The Rebel Outlaw: Josey Wales (republished, as shown in the movie's opening credits, as Gone to Texas).[6] The film was a commercial success, earning $31.8 million against a $3.7 million budget. In 1996, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
Josey Wales was portrayed by Michael Parks in the film's 1986 sequel, The Return of Josey Wales.[7] His wife Laura Lee was played by Mary Ann Averett in the sequel.
^Munn, p. 156
^"The Outlaw Josey Wales". Box Office Mojo. Archived from the original on February 1, 2012. Retrieved January 23, 2012.
^Foote, John H. (2008). Clint Eastwood: Evolution of a Filmmaker. Westport, CT: Praeger. p. 32. ISBN 978-031335247-8.
^Variety Staff (December 31, 1975). "The Outlaw Josey Wales". Film – Reviews. Variety. Archived from the original on May 19, 2021. Retrieved May 19, 2021.
^"IMDB - The Outlaw Josie Wales". Archived from the original on May 13, 2021. Retrieved May 19, 2021.
^Barra, Allen (December 20, 2001). "The Education of Little Fraud". Salon.com. Archived from the original on July 16, 2014.
^Eleanor Mannikka (2015). "The Return of Josey Wales". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Archived from the original on December 9, 2015.
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