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The Outlaw Josey Wales

Western

Directed by Clint Eastwood

After avenging his family's brutal murder, Wales is pursued by a pack of soldiers. He prefers to travel alone, but ragtag outcasts are drawn to him - and Wales can't bring himself to leave them unprotected. From TMDB

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The Outlaw Josey Wales is a 1976 western film, directed by Clint Eastwood, starring Clint Eastwood, Chief Dan George and Sondra Locke.

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  • david ehrlich @davidehrlich.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 27, 2024

    oh Juror No. 2 is GOOD good. The About a Boy reunion I never knew I always wanted, and possibly the first Clint Eastwood movie since The Outlaw Josey Wales in which someone says the word “podcast.”

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  • Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 13, 2024

    One of the more iconic cultural expressions of America's "outlaw culture" is the film "The Outlaw Josey Wales." As this book shows, the author of that fable was a fascistic antisemite and white supremacist named Asa Carter. ,https://ugapress.org/book/9781588384812/unmasking-the-klansman/

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  • Pam K Nail @pknail.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 21, 2025

    #Junesploitation Day 21 - Westerns! Today's pick is PALE RIDER (1985)! (Pre-movie trailers: High Plains Drifter, The Outlaw Josey Wales) @fthismovie.bsky.social www.fthismovie.net/2025/05/anno...

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  • Westerns & the Old West @davidlambertart.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 4, 2025

    Learn more about Asa Carter & the making of The Outlaw Josey Wales & find out how the film's progressive depiction of Natives worked as a smokescreen for Carter's Lost Cause propaganda* on the Wrong Reel episode below 👇 *despite all that, I still like the movie wrongreel.com/podcast/wr64...

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  • CatVanDooh @catvandooh.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 16, 2025

    They are attacking No Kings because they want a King. They are against Antifa because they are fascists. We are Americans. It is our civic duty to protest an unlawful and anti-American government. "We will endeavor to perceviere!" -Lone Watie (character from the movie 'The Outlaw Josey Wales.') 🚬😎

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  • Carl Feher @carlfeher.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 1, 2026

    Asa Carter, also the man who wrote the book that was later turned into the movie, "The Outlaw Josey Wales."

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  • Clinton of the Damned 🎃👻 @puritythrufire.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 18, 2025

    Picking a random film from my collection to show off for no real reason! Day #278 "The Outlaw Josey Wales" (Clint Eastwood/1976) Another awesome Eastwood directed Western. Shame the standard cover to the 4K is so fucking boring. Definitely a movie you should check out if you like Westerns.

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  • Scream, Cultura, Scream! @culturalgutter.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 11, 2026

    Favorite film for each year of the '70s: 70: A Touch of Zen 71: Shaft 72: Five Fingers of Death 73: The Wicker Man 74: The Taking of Pelham One Two Three 75: The Terror of MechaGodzilla 76: The Outlaw Josey Wales 77: Clans of Intrigue 78: Superman 79: The Muppet Movie

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  • HazardousBanjo @[email protected]Lemmy · Apr 14, 2026

    Always remember one of the "classic" cowboy movies boomers absolutely love is *The Outlaw Josey Wales.* A very pro-Confederate, anti-Union shit movie starring Clint Eastwood. The entire plot of the movie is a total fabrication of this exact thing, portraying Josey Wales as an innocent Confederate farmer who's family is massacred by Northern soldiers for literally zero reason whatsoever other than "the North is evil and the South were the good guys".

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  • On This Day - Scala Cinema @otdscalacinema.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 6, 2026

    On this night (6th February) in 1982, the Scala Cinema was showing The Gauntlet (1977), Dirty Harry (1971), The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976) and Magnum Force (1973) as a Clint Eastwood all-nighter.

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  • Machinist @[email protected]Lemmy · Oct 20, 2025

    I get how the mechanics of it work. That's not hard to see and understand. The part I don't understand is the cult of personality. The personality is repulsive. He violates all kinds of norms the fundies literally hold as sacred. Trump is openly a cartoon of what fundies rail against, teach their children not to be, and consider evil. I was born and raised southern fundie. A new york city, orange makeup wearing, reality tv, biblically ignorant, multiply divorced, fucktard conman is about the…

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  • Ringo Bunnyman @ringobunnyman.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 2, 2026

    #AprilMusicChallenge #MusicChallenge **Day 2** A song with purple in the title… Sheb Wooley - ‘The Purple People Eater’ (1958) A #1 hit for the singer & actor. He appeared in the films High Noon, The Outlaw Josey Wales and the 1986 film Hoosiers; also TV's Rawhide. m.youtube.com/watch?v=PeUv...

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  • rattatatouille @rattatatouille.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 2, 2026

    I think The Outlaw Josey Wales was the film Atun-Shei Films described as the best Civil War movie from the Confederate perspective (which is damning with faint praise, to be clear)

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  • 🎃 ƚԋҽ ԋαυɳƚιɳɠ σϝ Aʅҽx˚Jҽɾι⛦ @mobiusstrip8.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 3, 2025

    The Outlaw Josey Wales|1976 + commentary www.imdb.com/title/tt0075... 📽️ #NowWatching #filmsky #horrormovies #slashers ·after losing his family in the Civil War, Josey Wales joins rebel fighters to seek revenge - but on his journey, he rediscovers a desire to live and rebuild·

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  • ⭐️Angela 🐿️ McEwen⭐️ @angelamcewen.bsky.socialBluesky · May 9, 2026

    The line "Kill ’em all and let God sort ’em out" (or similar wording) is attributed to the 1974 Western movie "The Outlaw Josey Wales". This is the quote the Elon Musk suspended my account for. Kill em all let God sort em out. ;) What was what I wrote. Clearly no one knows vintage movies.

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  • weirdo_from_space @[email protected]Lemmy · Jul 13, 2023

    Western recommendations from the silent era?. I've started watching Westerns lately. I've watched the first hour of The Outlaw Josey Wales, very good stuff. So I have some sound films my list like Stagecoach, Searchers, Once Upon a Time in West, Lawman and Dodge City; but what about the silent era? I've only seen The Great Train Robbery from that part, what else would you recommend?

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  • What Ever Happened to Baby Jaime? (Rebanal) @firewalkwjaime.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 16, 2026

    The Outlaw Josey Wales is such a great movie, it's absolutely astonishing to find out the novel it's based on was written by the Klansman who wrote "Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, and segregation forever" for George Wallace.

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  • Wayne Gauthier🇨🇦🇰🇷 @wayneinseoul.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 7, 2024

    Clint Eastwood took a hard turn to the right a few years ago, but 'The Outlaw Josey Wales' is a solid film, nevertheless.

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  • SpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 27, 2025

    Western Movie Theory. The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976, Eastwood) and The Unforgiven (1992, Eastwood) are mirror images of one another. In the first, a man starts as good, does violent things, reverts to being good. In the second, a man starts bad, leads a non-violent life, reverts to being bad. /1

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  • PJ Harvey Dent @bsakat.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 2, 2024

    Five comfort watches, no particular order - The Road Warrior - Buckaroo Banzai - The Outlaw Josey Wales - Patlabor 2: the Movie - Flash Gordon

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  • CraftySousepaw @craftysousepaw.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 3, 2026

    You're both wrong. The Outlaw Josey Wales was the best western ever made, nearly the best film ever. It is perfect in every sense.

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  • John O'Connell @jdpoc.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 22, 2025

    This Weekend, Movie Sundays continue. Best Westerns about more than just the West. The Searchers (1956) - Racial Hatred, Obsession. The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976) - Vengeance, Redemption. The GREATEST of these is .. Shenandoah (1965) - Dared to be an AntiWar, Humanist Western.

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  • Eye For Film @eyeforfilm.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 28, 2025

    Clint Eastwood classic The Outlaw Josey Wales is getting a 4K release www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/dvdreview/th... #filmsky 🎬

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  • まっぴら御免 @mappiragomen0515.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 3, 2025

    The first Western movie where I felt humidity on screen was "The Outlaw Josey Wales." The first Western movie where I saw mud on the road was "Tom Horn." I was a child so I'm not familiar with this area. I don't really know the differences between states.

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  • GarthArizona @gartharizona.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 29, 2024

    Doug McGrath is a great character actor known best for 4 Clint Eastwood films: The Outlaw Josey Wales 76', The Gauntlet 77', Bronco Billy 80', Pale Rider 85', & Porky's 81', Twilight Zone the Movie 83', Always 89', The Rocketeer 91', Ghosts of Mars 01', & many TV shows. 57 acting credits on IMDB. 35

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  • Gore Vidal Sassoon @jimmyjazz1968.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 6, 2023

    Absolutely, although the Outlaw Josey Wales is pretty great and it's absolutely a 'Civil War film' without any big battles

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  • Michael Alan Peck @michaelalanpeck.comBluesky · Jul 20, 2026

    THE OUTLAW JOSEY WALES. Yes, the book was written by a Klansman, but still—great movie. And Clint Eastwood reportedly had no idea about the author's background when he made it.

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  • srgarland.bsky.social @srgarland.bsky.socialBluesky · May 3, 2026

    I do like The General - the ick factor wasn't a thing as my favourite civil war movie at the time was The Outlaw Josey Wales. Should have opened a history book instead.

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  • SpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 3, 2025

    Yes, but you see the same with westerns. The Outlaw Josey Wales is a better film than the Unforgiven. But at the time of its release, westerns were hopelessly out of fashion, so audiences didn't rate it. /1

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  • A L I E N Cerny @alancerny.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 1, 2025

    In celebration of Clint Eastwood’s 95th birthday… I’ve got codes! THE OUTLAW JOSEY WALES is my favorite Clint Eastwood Western. PALE RIDER is kinda a sneaky Man With No Name movie. Both are here on digital, first come, first served. Go get ‘em, and enjoy.

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  • Bill-a Lugosi's Dead @neokefka99.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 29, 2025

    THE OUTLAW JOSEY WALES is a movie that tests how much Lost Cause bullshit I can tolerate for my love of Clint looking like 9 miles of bad road and stories of violent men cast to the wind.

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  • Derek Halliday 🇨🇦 @dthalliday.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 21, 2025

    I ran down to the store to get my books, and also hit the BMV. I picked up THE OUTLAW JOSEY WALES (1976) from WARNER BROS. It's a very nice digi-book presentation. I don't know much about the film, but HIGH PLAINS DRIFTER impressed me, so I expect I'll like this as well!

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  • Dr Pop Culture USA @drpopcultureusa.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 10, 2025

    As an actor, he portrayed Cletus Summers, the principal of Hickory High School and assistant coach in the 1986 film Hoosiers; Ben Miller, brother of Frank Miller in the film High Noon; Travis Cobb in The Outlaw Josey Wales and scout Pete Nolan in the television series Rawhide.

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  • Kate Armstrong @brainchain.caBluesky · May 31, 2024

    I’m so happy to see The Outlaw Josey Wales so high up on the list because a member of my fam is tangentially named after this movie. Although it’s definitely not top 20.. I have a spot in my heart for ‘Blood Work’. Also ‘Play Misty for Me’ is a mic 🎤 drop of a directorial debut.

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  • Rookie 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 @rookiesinc.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 8, 2026

    Yeah, great film. My all time fave Eastwood western is The Outlaw Josey Wales, brilliant.

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  • jc-82.bsky.social @jc-82.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 24, 2026

    It felt like cheating, it was The Outlaw Josey Wales, great movie!!

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  • N20 Games @n20games.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 14, 2026

    Book: When asked, I say "Frankenstein" but I love "The Stainless Steel Rat" and "Sherlock Holmes" most. Movie: "The Princess Bride" is my answer, but watch-them-any-time faves include "The Outlaw Josey Wales" an "Millers Crossing".

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  • Mario Bava's A Jay of Blood @jaycoyle.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 24, 2025

    The Outlaw Josey Wales: Eastwood's film is a wonderful sense of contrasts. A classical western with Peckinpah in its DNA, and a painterly film as a balm on the savagery within. The road ends eventually, a touch of hope here thankfully. That edit is sublime. A brilliant film.

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  • Unclear_User @unclearuser.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 8, 2025

    #TonightsMovie #NowWatching The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976, Dir. Clint Eastwood) #FirstWatch

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  • On This Day - Scala Cinema @otdscalacinema.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 20, 2025

    On this day (20th July) in 1988, the Scala Cinema was showing Rancho Notorious, The Lusty Men and The Outlaw Josey Wales as a triple bill.

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  • Ben @vanasbj.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 17, 2025

    #JulyMovieChallenge @omacolt.bsky.social Jul 18 Civil War Movie The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976) A Confederate guerrilla becomes an outlaw after the war. Revisionist Western with Civil War undertones.

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  • Lauren Thompson @laurenfacall.bsky.socialBluesky · May 27, 2025

    28 May 1944 – 2018 Sondra Locke, (née Smith), 74, US actress, filmmaker. Film debut: The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1968 OscarNom) * Willard * The Outlaw Josey Wales * The Gauntlet * Every Which Way But Loose * Any Which Way You Can * Sudden Impact * Impulse (director) * Ray Meets Helen (2018)

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  • Mitch Wolfe @whrwlfthrwlf85v.bsky.socialBluesky · May 12, 2025

    More than once, I've thought about this quote that was in the movie The Outlaw Josey Wales: "I ain't promising you nothing extra. I'm just giving you life and you're giving me life. And I'm saying that men can live together without butchering one another."

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  • Ian McClellan @ianmac.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 15, 2025

    I’ve always had mixed feelings about the movie ‘The Outlaw Josey Wales’. Yes, terrible things happened during ‘The Bleeding Kansas’ period and war crimes were committed by groups of irregulars from both sides during the Civil War by those groups. But, the movie turns out…

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  • Big Scary Spider @wolfspider666.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 30, 2025

    There aren't a whole lot of movies where Native American women play starring roles, but one movie that I can think of that has one playing a large enough supporting role is The Outlaw Josey Wales.

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  • Quirky Films @quirkyfilms.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 11, 2025

    Feb 12 : Civil War #Bales2025FilmChallenge #FilmSky #MovieSky 📽️ 🎬 #TheOutlawJoseyWales (1976) Missouri farmer Josey Wales joins a Confederate guerrilla unit and winds up on the run from the Union soldiers who murdered his family. #ClintEastwood [1/2] www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCPc...

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  • Ben @vanasbj.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 11, 2025

    #Bales2025FilmChallenge Feb 12. movie about the civil war The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976): Clint Eastwood plays a Missouri farmer seeking revenge after Union soldiers murder his family. This revisionist Western has strong Civil War themes.

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  • Sean Burns @splicedpersonality.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 14, 2024

    Saturday’s Midnight Special at the Somerville Theatre is THE OUTLAW JOSEY WALES, the first great movie directed by Clint Eastwood and one of Orson Welles’ favorite Westerns. It’s one of mine, too. crookedmarquee.com/classic-corn...

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  • Hossenfeffer @[email protected]Lemmy · Jan 18, 2024

    *For A Few Dollars More* is so-so (but I'd still watch it again), but *The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly* is epic. And if you enjoy them, then take a crack at *High Plains Drifter* or *Pale Rider* which are both excellent though share an underlying theme. *The Outlaw Josey Wales* is also well worth a watch, as is the magnificent (and best picture Oscar winner) *Unforgiven* starring and directed by an older, wiser, and grittier Clint Eastwood.

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  • Fitbaw Joe 🍀 @joethetim.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 16, 2026

    From The Outlaw Josey Wales. Was in stitches the whole way through this film 📽️😁😂

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  • Polycule of One, Hive of K #🟦 @polyculeofone.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 18, 2026

    #JulyMovieChallenge Day Eighteen: A Civil War movie The Outlaw Josey Wales

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  • ✿ 𝑺𝒚𝒓𝒊𝒍 𝑱𝒂𝒚 𝒁𝒐𝒎𝑩𝒆𝒆 ✿ 🇬🇧 @syriljaybee.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 20, 2026

    Duel (1971) was frequently paired with The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976) in cinemas. I went with 2 friends in 1976 to see the Clint Eastwood film but I actually ended up enjoying Duel more!

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  • mike @altonpi.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 11, 2025

    From the classic movie "The Outlaw Josey Wales", ... "I will endeavour to persevere."

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  • Cousin Dave @rocknroll2.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 15, 2025

    “The Outlaw Josey Wales.” Not a fan of the genre but love this movie.

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  • maxrenn70.bsky.social @maxrenn70.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 8, 2025

    Predator: Badlands is the last film I would have expected to feature a colossal lesbian subtext. It’s The Outlaw Josey Wales meets Apocalypto, only make it sci-fi and really gay! (This is a good thing btw) #filmsky

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  • Jack Kost @jackkost.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 30, 2025

    On this day in movie history: The Outlaw Josey Wales directed by Clint Eastwood released June 30, 1976. Cast: Clint Eastwood, Chief Dan George, Sondra Locke, Bill McKinney, John Vernon, Paula Trueman, Sam Bottoms, Geraldine Keams, Woodrow Parfrey, Joyce Jameson, Will Sampson, John Mitchum. #Western

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  • Alexander Wiggan @alexwiggan.bsky.socialBluesky · May 1, 2025

    This week’s edition of Movie Reviews 2025 is here with reviews for: 📺 Havoc 📺 Exterritorial 📺 The Woman in the Yard 📀 The House of the Devil 📀 The Outlaw Josey Wales 🎥 Marvel’s Thunderbolts* #Movies #Films #MovieReviews2025 #Thunderbolts #Marvel #Havoc

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  • Doug Hatley @doughatley.bsky.socialBluesky · May 1, 2025

    Of course that's the expression. Here it is in The Outlaw Josey Wales. (Great movie, btw.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpwJ...

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  • Jason, the Okayest Painter @theokayestpainter.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 26, 2025

    As much of a fantasy/sci-fi nerd as I am, people are often surprised to find out my absolute favorite movie is The Outlaw Josey Wales. But it's also why I dig The Mandalorian. Westerns are something else, man.

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  • Bill the Cat @billthecat71.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 24, 2025

    The Outlaw Josey Wales is a 1976 American revisionist Western film set during and after the American Civil War. It was directed by and starred Clint Eastwood as Josey Wales. Wales seeks vengeance for his family by joining a group of Confederate bushwhackers, attacking the Union Army.

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