The Outlaw Josey Wales

The Outlaw Josey Wales is a 1976 American revisionist Western DeLuxe Color and Panavision film set during and after the American Civil War. It was directed by and starred Clint Eastwood as the eponymous Josey Wales, with Chief Dan George, Sondra Locke, Sam Bottoms, and Geraldine Keams. The film tells the story of Josey Wales, a Missouri farmer whose family is murdered by Union militants during the Civil War. Driven to revenge, Wales joins a Confederate guerrilla band and fights in the Civil War. After the war, all the fighters in Wales group except for Wales surrender to Union officers, but they end up being massacred. Wales becomes an outlaw and is pursued by bounty hunters and Union soldiers.

Josey Wales Clint Eastwood, a Missouri farmer, is driven to revenge by the murder of his wife and young son by a band of proUnion Jayhawker militants. The Union murderers were from Senator James H. Lanes Kansas Brigade, which included Captain Terrill.After grieving and burying his wife and son, Wales joins a group of proConfederate Missouri Bushwhackers led by William T. Anderson and fights in the Civil War. At the conclusion of the war, Captain Fletcher John Vernon persuades the guerrillas to surrender, saying they have been granted amnesty. Wales refuses to surrender. As a result, he and one young man are the only survivors when Captain Terrills Bill McKinney Redlegs massacre the surrendering men. Wales intervenes and guns down several Redlegs with a Gatling gun. ........

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