The Roger Ebert Experience chooses, in the category of Westerns, the Clint Eastwood classic:
The Outlaw Josey Wales
The Outlaw Josey Wales is a
1976 revisionist Western movie set at the end of the
American Civil War directed by and starring
Clint Eastwood (as the eponymous Josey Wales), with
Chief Dan George,
Sondra Locke,
Bill McKinney,
John Vernon,
Paula Trueman,
Sam Bottoms,
Geraldine Keams,
John Russell,
Woodrow Parfrey,
Joyce Jameson,
Sheb Wooley,
John Quade,
Will Sampson, and
Royal Dano.
The movie was adapted by
Sonia Chernus and
Philip Kaufman from the novel
The Rebel Outlaw: Josey Wales (republished in 1975 under the title
Gone to Texas) by
Forrest Carter.
In 1996, this film was placed in the United States
Library of Congress and selected for preservation in their
National Film Registry.
