I prefer the the Spaghetti Westerns, but my Grandfather would agree with you that Wales is the best. To me though the Sergio Leone films with Eastwood and 2/3 of them with Lee Van Cleef were unbelievable. Though Wales is more quotable.
@@peach495 He was heartless. But you've gotta be that way when you live by the righteous way of life. And not with what your country or the government tells you to live by? I wished they'd go back to having public hangings myself?
This is the perfect Western, the story, dialog, acting, casting, costumes, pacing, action, and cinemaphotography, all first rate. It's my second favorite Western of all time.
“Now remember, when things look bad and it looks like you're not gonna make it, then you gotta get mean. I mean plumb, mad-dog mean. 'Cause if you lose your head and you give up, then you neither live nor win. That's just the way it is.“. Great Josey Wales pep talk.
There are sooooooooooooooooooooooo many scenes though. Calling one a favorite is the same is saying what your favorite food/dinner is. He was the reason I got my S&W Model 29 in 1991 though.....very near Carmel where he was mayor at the time. He'll always be a favorite. Too bad Hollywood isn't capable of making movies like this anymore. It's been dead for over a decade now.
“Now remember, when things look bad and it looks like you're not gonna make it, then you gotta get mean. I mean plumb, mad-dog mean. 'Cause if you lose your head and you give up, then you neither live nor win. That's just the way it is.“
Kinda partial to "We got something in this territory called a Missouri boat ride", and "Its a good thing you came along when you did, I might have killed her"
Josey Wales : When I get to likin' someone, they ain't around long. Lone Watie : I notice when you get to DISlikin' someone they ain't around for long neither.
They both played cowboys, they both played military men, they both played cops. Clint however directs and he writes music to many of his movies. Edge to Clint. But my favorite John Wayne movie was his last one, a western. ‘The Shootist’.
There's only a few western movies I can watch over and over again.. The Life and times of judge Roy Bean, little big man and The outlaw Josey Wales. Probably a few others but those are the ones that come to mind.
Clint character brilliant, he is a super star, soon as that door flies open. Got to be the best western of movie history, even when he spit on their dead body' classic move
I like how he uses a lot of the same people in his movies, like this guy who just got the first drop on Josey also was his partner in Dirty Harry movies, till he got killed in one of them. Even Red Legs Terrell. Same cop in “The Gauntlet”
Wild Bill McKinney was also in Thunderbolt and Lightfoot. Along with part of the bike gang in Every Which Way But Loose. Also Bronco Billy. He was good friends with Clint and worked on many of his works.
Good luck getting some corporate yuppie to be all passionate about a movie; Hollywood spends 200 mill for a commercial. Sometimes there's a decent movie in there.. sometimes
He's just lucky that the Josey Wales didn't train his pistols on him, and start firing! Happy to be alive, that's what he is! Which is more than you can say for them two pilgrims that got blasted. And the Squaw? Well, I reckon he decided to let her tag along, and leave that there storekeeper high & dry...and...still alive!
@1:30 the background at the door scenery looks very different then when Josey (Eastwood) enters through the door the first time. It looks like an auto wreckers yard with junked cars piled up? Quite bizarre?? Anyone else see/notice that? If indeed a blooper, very strange on why that would be seen after the first door opening?
Josey Wales is up there as a favorite, but I have Unforgiven, and if we're talking westerns Wild Bunch and Searchers. A lot of good movies out there. I'm just happy I get to see them.
Little Bill: "Well sir you just shot an unarmed man." J. Wales: "... Well he should have armed himself if he is going to decorate his store with my friend..."
I have got this movie DVD of which is my favourite Clint Eastwood movie with the late Sondra Locke with Joan Vernon in The Outlaw Josey Wales I am dedicating this movie DVD to my old school friends who are both sisters as I hope to see them both again to Chris and Hester Brand from Billyxxx
@@jimmyolsen5897 sorry Jimmy not sure about your point we both like Clint, critics often didn't but we do. But I will say Where Eagles Dare is best bad war movie ever made. Some of best British actors, ever, and Clint. I'm humming the theme as I type.
The Duke, John Wayne, was the epitome of American Westerns from mid-40s to 1970s. Clint Eastwood/Sam Elliott picked up the mantle until early 2000s. Sadly, that genre is dying out w/no one to carry on that tradition....
Harry Miram Sadly, your right. I'd hate to see the classic western fade into history. Denzel Washington and company did a great job remaking the Magnificent Seven but I don't see him picking up the genre.
@@roberobe1411...For a little while, thought Sam Elliott looked like an credible candidate. Loved his work in The Sacketts, Shadow Riders, Conagher &, most recently, as Caretaker in Ghost Rider....
