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

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

[ansel12]

She was really something in that movie, very memorable.

[TalBlack]

I don’t know about the claim in the title. I’ve see lot of Clint Eastwood movies but I’ve never managed to get very far into The Outlaw before losing interest. I recall when it came out my sister seeing it and raving it up.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Odd, I only think of Donald Sutherland when “Kelly’s Heroes” is mentioned.

[central_va]

“You gonna pull them pistols or just whistle dixie?”

[fidelis]

I’ve been watching the western anthology series “Death Valley Days” the past six weeks. I was startled to see Clint in a small role in “The Last Letter” episode which aired Dec 8, 1956. He appeared in a couple of TV shows in 1955, so this was among his earliest acting gigs.

I just watched his first appearance in a 1956 TV Western where he played a young U.S. Calvary lieutenant. It was in a fairly obscure western called "Cochise, Greatest of the Apaches."

[ShadowAce]

Josey Wales and High Plains Drifter are my two favorites.

Followed very closely by the "Man with No Name" trilogy.

Unforgiven is excellent.

Pale Rider is excellent.

[showme_the_Glory]

Pa, Pa, is that you Pa?

[DFG]

IMDB trivia on ‘Paint Your Wagon’ says that Lee Marvin was drunk nearly everyday of the filming.

[central_va]

OK he upstaged Clint also.

[ansel12]

Rawhide is where Eastwood really made it with a fan base, and Gil Favor was perhaps the most masculine character ever in a TV series, it is a great series.

[Poser]

Josie Wales and Unforgiven were is best and that’s saying a lot.

[BigFreakinToad]

I agree. one of my favorite, Pale Rider isn’t shabby either.

[DFG]

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

[gundog]

“I had to come back.”

”I know.”

John D. Chandler as the bounty hunter.

[dblshot]

Picking one of Clint’s movies as best is like trying to pick the best sex one ever had, damn they were all good. Not the same but gooooooood!

[central_va]

So many good lines in that movie. Great scripts make great movies.

[TalBlack]

He really isn’t much of an actor he’s more of an emoter. But practically every girlboss badass imitation guy actress ever has copied his emoting.

[Indy Pendance]

I saw a Clint Eastwood interview, he said he wished he had never made that movie. I wouldn’t doubt that Lee Marvin was drunk. When my husband asks me If I’d like to watch a CE movie with him, I ask if it’s Paint Your Wagon, he rolls his eyes.

Every Clint Eastwood fan should see it once (that’s enough)

[showme_the_Glory]

Dirty Harry?

Gonzales : There is one question, Inspector Callahan: Why do they call you “Dirty Harry”?
De Georgio : Ah that’s one thing about our Harry, doesn’t play any favorites! Harry hates everybody: Limeys, Micks, Hebes, Fat Dagos, Niggers, Honkies, Chinks, you name it.
Gonzales : How does he feel about Mexicans?
De Georgio : Ask him.
Harry Callahan : Especially Spics.

[Mrs.Liberty]

I remember my brother had the soundtrack! I think he took us (me/my sister) to see it at a drive -in in Placerville, CA. Agree that it is the worst of his.