As The Outlaw Josey Wales two-time Academy Award winner Clint Eastwood is ideally cast as a hard hitting fast-drawing loner recalling his Man with No Name from his European Westerns. But unlike that other mythic outlaw Josey Wales has a name - and a heart.After avenging his family's brutal murder Wales is on the run pursued by a pack of killers. He travels alone but a ragtag group of outcasts (including Sondra Locke and Chief Dan George) is drawn to him - and Wales can't leave his motley surrogate family unprotected. Eastwood's skills before and behind the camera connected with audiences for its humour and tenderness as well as its hair-trigger action.
