UNION JAYHAWKERS FROM KANSAS PICKED ON THE WRONG MAN WHEN THEY PICKED ON THE OUTLAW JOSEY WALES

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If I had to name my absolute favourite movie of all time and I only had once choice, then the 1976 western classic THE OUTLAW JOSEY WALES, starring the veteran actor Clint Eastwood, would probably be one of about three movies in the race. 

On the basis of plot construction, depth of
characterisations and overall screenplay and on location filming, it would be at the very top of my list without any doubt. 

The beauty about this western is it does
extend the theme of the western genre and breaks through many cliches that even the westerns master, John Wayne, could have been accused of recycling often in his films. 

Don't get me wrong, I like John Wayne and half a dozen of his ones are much better in my opinion than a few of Eastwood's western movies, but JOSEY WALES is just a brilliant and captivating movie, despite lower than average acting skills being on display from Eastwood for most of the movie. 

He just happens to be the star of a movie which has everything else going for it, Clint makes an aggravating habit in the movie of chewing a lot of tobacco and then spitting it at people, mostly dead people he just shot, as well as a stray scorpion in one particular scene. 

That scorpion must have wondered what hit it after Clint spat at the poor bugger. The beauty about it is that the movie merges themes of the mid-west western movies and the american civil war, which was fought in the more eastern states of the US. 

Hence by the time the movie is ended, you feel like you have been all around america in the era of the wild west. 

The movie plot is centred on the revenge that Josey Wales enacts upon to settle a score with the pro-Union or nothing renegade marshalls who are responsible for burning his house to the ground in Missouri, a terrible act resulting in the deaths of his wife and son. 

Wrong move! Despite being outnumbered on so many occasions, the outlaw Josey Wales makes it a real habit of mowing down the bad guys on regular occasions, the controlled angst between Wales and John Vernon in the movie, who plays a very convincing "double agent role", is particularly riveting and convincing.