The Outlaw Josey Wales – 1976 Eastwood

Love the simple revenge story that certainly has many film counterparts including more recent updates including braveheart and gladiator. Woefully underrated in Feb 2017 at #952 on TSPDT Originally was directed by Philip Kaufman (the right stuff) but was apparently thrown overboard by Eastwood Certainly a mark of Eastwood as an auteur is the retribution themes throughout Eastwood’s career. This is pretty straightforward but certainly it’s more complicated in unforgiven, mystic river, high plains drifter and others Orson Welles apparently was an admirer of the film Amongst other things the film is well known for the continual spitting (narrative/character