The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)

Director:	Clint Eastwood
Actors:	Clint Eastwood, John Vernon, Sondra Locke, Bill McKinney, Chief Dan George, Geraldine Keams, Paula Trueman

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 lam, 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 skill before and behind the camera connected with audiences for its humour and tenderness as well as for its hair-trigger action.