Fresh
All in all, a very creditable film.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Overview
After avenging his family's brutal murder, Wales is pursued by a pack of soldiers. He prefers to travel alone, but ragtag outcasts are drawn to him - and Wales can't bring himself to leave them unprotected.
Director and cast
- Clint Eastwood Director
- Clint Eastwood as Josey Wales
- Chief Dan George as Lone Watie
- Sondra Locke as Laura Lee
- Bill McKinney as Terrill
- John Vernon as Fletcher
- Paula Trueman as Grandma Sarah
- Sam Bottoms as Jamie
- Geraldine Keams as Little Moonlight
- Woodrow Parfrey as Carpetbagger
- Joyce Jameson as Rose
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
91%
Tomatometer
Rotten
The screenplay is another one of those violence revues, with carnage production numbers slotted every so often.
Variety Staff, Variety
Fresh
[Eastwood] gets to the heart of the matter briskly, orchestrates his confrontations intelligently and gets off without lingering unduly over the resultant ugliness.
Richard Schickel, TIME Magazine
Fresh
Eastwood is such a taciturn and action-oriented performer that it's easy to overlook the fact that he directs many of his movies -- and many of the best, most intelligent ones.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Rotten
A soggy attempt at a post-Civil War western epic.
Richard Eder, New York Times
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