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Release date 30th June 1976
Country : USA
Running time : 135 mins
Genre : Western
Starring Clint Eastwood
Screenplay by Philip Kaufman from the novel by Forrest Carter
Directed by Clint Eastwood
Josey Wales'
humanity is almost taken from him when his home is burned and his
family is murdered. He joins a band of unreconstructed rebel guerilla
fighters who continue to fight the Union. He becomes a wanted man but
joins up with a group of settlers who need the protection that a man as
tough and experienced as he is can provide. His feelings of vengeance
change to feelings of love but he is still being pursued.
One of Clint's best
westerns,brilliantly cinematography frames a driving storyline about a
renegade who befriends an ageing Indian. He becomes domesticated,
almost part of a family and finally is set free, it is a film of hope
in that long-standing feuds aren't always perpetual. The film surprised
me in that there wasn't a final confrontation in traditional style but
I think it is all the better for that.
In all his westerns Eastwood has never
killed Indians, this is taken a stage further here in his portrayal of
the Indians as his friends.
"If only the actors hadn't got in the way of the scenery, it would have
been a very beautiful film indeed." Benny Green, Punch.
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