Hear Me Out: ‘The Outlaw Josey Wales’ Is the Best Movie Clint Eastwood Ever Made

Far Out Magazine ^ | Mon 12 August 2024 | Scott Campbell

[joe fonebone]

Who loves ya baby....

[ansel12]

Paint Your Wagon was the 7th highest grossing movie of 1969, it beat out True Grit.

[Bullish]

I’d put it in my top 3 for sure. My #1 is ‘Unforgiven’ followed by ‘Dirty Harry’ then Josey Wales.

[GOPJ]

I’ve never seen that one either - how nice to have something like this to look forward to...

[joe fonebone]

Don Rickles and Telly Savalis when Don gets wounded...
Don... Offer him a deal.
Telly...What kinda deal?
Don... A deal deal, maybe he’s a Republican.

[JewishRighter]

I love the way the actor delivered those lines. Incredible satire.

[T.B. Yoits]

But for me.. It’s the Good, The Bad and the Ugly as the definitive go to Eastwood classic...

'The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly' is on a whole other level.

'The Outlaw Josey Wales' got sappy about half way through. He went from an outlaw soldier to a protector of a bunch of Muppets. The cavalry captain went from a fearsome opponent to a sad sack, especially for someone who had chased Josey Wales all those miles. The bounty hunter in the saloon didn't inspire much fear at all. The carpetbagger with the cleaning solution and tobacco spit was a comic relief at the wrong time.

[Albion Wilde]

I never saw Clint Eastwood movies until he started directing, and even then, I wasn't aware he was the director until after having seen the movie (I always sit through the credits). Each film that I did see was particularly well crafted, and I liked them all, except for the sentimental slop Bridges of Madison County (Meryl Streep is a creep).

Other than that, I thought highly of Richard Jewell, Jersey Boys, American Sniper, and Mystic River.

Eastwood as a director is like Robert Duvall as an actor—he tells peculiarly American stories.

[Albion Wilde]

Ping!

[Bullish]

How about this one from Unforgiven about death?

Character says: “He had it comin’”

Clint says: “we ALL got it comin’ kid”

[Chickensoup]

I am trying to remember whether Duvall and Eastwood ever worked on a film together

[Joe Boucher]

Nope.
Play Misty For Me.

[Joe Boucher]

Excellent

[AFreeBird]

Haven’t seen OJW!? I don’t know how to respond to that.

[M Kehoe]

George Kennedy was a mean, tough sob in real life.

5.56mm

[Albion Wilde]

“The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly” is also my favorite Clint Eastwood movie.

Although I've never seen it, I've listened to its amazing theme music by Ennio Morricone countless times, including Morricone directing a full orchestra just to perform it for an audience, and other musicians interpreting that title music. Huge fan of Morricone.

[M Kehoe]

Didn’t Clyde recently die?

5.56mm

[Glad2bnuts]

It is a GREAT movie, up there with True Grit with the Duke.

That is High Praise from me.

[waterhill]

Clyde died in 2017 at 40 years old.

[Albion Wilde]

I am trying to remember whether Duvall and Eastwood ever worked on a film together

Oh, my word. Not sure my heart could take it! (I am a woman.) I'm such a fan of Duvall. Some years ago when he owned a small restaurant in a tiny town in rural Virginia, one of my woman friends and I used to go there for lunch just to stare at the back of his head (he used to sit with his wife facing the front window with his back to the other diners). I wanted to go up to him and gush, but sensed he would not really enjoy fan slobber. This restaurent was up the road from his enormous horse farm. So, privacy.