The Outlaw Josey Wales
 | Starring: Sam Bottoms, Matt Clark, Royal Dano, Chief Dan George, Joyce Jameson Warner Home Video, 1976, DVD Customer Rating: 136 reviews Recommend |
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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.
DVD Features:
Introduction:Introduction by Clint Eastwood
Other:"Hell Hath No Fury" - 30:25 "Eastwood in Action" - 7:45
Clint Eastwood fired the original director, Philip Kaufman (The Right Stuff), and took over the reins of this project himself. He may have had a point: this brutal, thoughtful western, a near-tragedy about a Civil War veteran whose past comes looking for him, is probably Eastwood's most mature frontier drama prior to the Oscar winning Unforgiven. Hoping to build a quiet life in a cooperative community of settlers, Eastwood's Wales blames himself when his enemies attack the homestead, and he has to revert to his warrior instincts to help fend off the threat. The jittery intensity of Sondra Locke (who would be Mrs. Eastwood, at least for a while), and the screen-filling charisma of the late Chief Dan George harmonize beautifully with Eastwood, who had finally figured out how to add depth and texture to his stock-in-trade Man of Steel persona. This one may be too short on action to satisfy fans of Eastwood's Dirty Harry films, or of the Italian westerns he made with Sergio Leone, but it's an honorable effort. — David Chute
Title: The Outlaw Josey Wales
Sales Rank: 2171 in DVD
Actor: Sam Bottoms, Matt Clark, Royal Dano, Chief Dan George, Joyce Jameson
Studio: Warner Home Video, 2001-11-20, Theatrical Release: 1976-06-30
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC, Acpect Ratio 2.35:1
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), Chinese (Subtitled), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Japanese (Subtitled), Korean (Subtitled), Portuguese (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region Code: 1
Running Time: 135 minutes
Package Dimensions: 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6 inches, 0.15 pounds
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