This is the perfect Western, the story, dialog, acting, casting, costumes, pacing, action, and cinemaphotography, all first rate. It's my second favorite Western of all time.
I prefer the the Spaghetti Westerns, but my Grandfather would agree with you that Wales is the best. To me though the Sergio Leone films with Eastwood and 2/3 of them with Lee Van Cleef were unbelievable. Though Wales is more quotable.
@@peach495 He was heartless. But you've gotta be that way when you live by the righteous way of life. And not with what your country or the government tells you to live by? I wished they'd go back to having public hangings myself?
“Now remember, when things look bad and it looks like you're not gonna make it, then you gotta get mean. I mean plumb, mad-dog mean. 'Cause if you lose your head and you give up, then you neither live nor win. That's just the way it is.“. Great Josey Wales pep talk.
There are sooooooooooooooooooooooo many scenes though. Calling one a favorite is the same is saying what your favorite food/dinner is. He was the reason I got my S&W Model 29 in 1991 though.....very near Carmel where he was mayor at the time. He'll always be a favorite. Too bad Hollywood isn't capable of making movies like this anymore. It's been dead for over a decade now.
“Now remember, when things look bad and it looks like you're not gonna make it, then you gotta get mean. I mean plumb, mad-dog mean. 'Cause if you lose your head and you give up, then you neither live nor win. That's just the way it is.“
There's only a few western movies I can watch over and over again.. The Life and times of judge Roy Bean, little big man and The outlaw Josey Wales. Probably a few others but those are the ones that come to mind.
Little big man traumatized me when I saw it in the theater as an 8 year old boy with the scene where his Indian wife and her infant gets shot down by clusters troops in the snow.....that was awful
Growing up in the Bay Area, Northern California, my high school friend bragged about how they found out where he lived, they were hanging in front of his house and he came out and in a very smooth voice said”now you boys just slide on and out of here.” Probably one of the coolest things would be Clint telling you nicely to get lost! 😂
I have got this movie DVD of which is my favourite Clint Eastwood movie with the late Sondra Locke with Joan Vernon in The Outlaw Josey Wales I am dedicating this movie DVD to my old school friends who are both sisters as I hope to see them both again to Chris and Hester Brand from Billyxxx
They both played cowboys, they both played military men, they both played cops. Clint however directs and he writes music to many of his movies. Edge to Clint. But my favorite John Wayne movie was his last one, a western. ‘The Shootist’.
We shouldnt really try to decide which Clint Eastwood movie was his best. Be thankfully we have them all. We won't always have him, so we will be glad for every single one of his movies. I know I am! I just wish he could make one more! 😃
Kinda partial to "We got something in this territory called a Missouri boat ride", and "Its a good thing you came along when you did, I might have killed her"
Clint character brilliant, he is a super star, soon as that door flies open. Got to be the best western of movie history, even when he spit on their dead body' classic move
Josey Wales : When I get to likin' someone, they ain't around long. Lone Watie : I notice when you get to DISlikin' someone they ain't around for long neither.
Good luck getting some corporate yuppie to be all passionate about a movie; Hollywood spends 200 mill for a commercial. Sometimes there's a decent movie in there.. sometimes
@1:30 the background at the door scenery looks very different then when Josey (Eastwood) enters through the door the first time. It looks like an auto wreckers yard with junked cars piled up? Quite bizarre?? Anyone else see/notice that? If indeed a blooper, very strange on why that would be seen after the first door opening?
You cant deny his awareness though, it went from a mid 1800's setting to the realization that they used some shack on a salvage yard because it fit the bill. It's almost like josey Wales should of asked for a specific classic car part. I will never veiw that scene the same.
He's just lucky that the Josey Wales didn't train his pistols on him, and start firing! Happy to be alive, that's what he is! Which is more than you can say for them two pilgrims that got blasted. And the Squaw? Well, I reckon he decided to let her tag along, and leave that there storekeeper high & dry...and...still alive!
Josey Wales is up there as a favorite, but I have Unforgiven, and if we're talking westerns Wild Bunch and Searchers. A lot of good movies out there. I'm just happy I get to see them.
@@garynicholls1448 She's not acting being Native American. Geraldine Keams was raised on the Navajo reservation then went to the University of Arizona, where she studied drama and film.
@@jimmyolsen5897 sorry Jimmy not sure about your point we both like Clint, critics often didn't but we do. But I will say Where Eagles Dare is best bad war movie ever made. Some of best British actors, ever, and Clint. I'm humming the theme as I type.
I like how he uses a lot of the same people in his movies, like this guy who just got the first drop on Josey also was his partner in Dirty Harry movies, till he got killed in one of them. Even Red Legs Terrell. Same cop in “The Gauntlet”
Wild Bill McKinney was also in Thunderbolt and Lightfoot. Along with part of the bike gang in Every Which Way But Loose. Also Bronco Billy. He was good friends with Clint and worked on many of his works.
The Duke, John Wayne, was the epitome of American Westerns from mid-40s to 1970s. Clint Eastwood/Sam Elliott picked up the mantle until early 2000s. Sadly, that genre is dying out w/no one to carry on that tradition....
Harry Miram Sadly, your right. I'd hate to see the classic western fade into history. Denzel Washington and company did a great job remaking the Magnificent Seven but I don't see him picking up the genre.
@@roberobe1411...For a little while, thought Sam Elliott looked like an credible candidate. Loved his work in The Sacketts, Shadow Riders, Conagher &, most recently, as Caretaker in Ghost Rider....
Little Bill: "Well sir you just shot an unarmed man." J. Wales: "... Well he should have armed himself if he is going to decorate his store with my friend..."
This is the perfect Western, the story, dialog, acting, casting, costumes, pacing, action, and cinemaphotography, all first rate. It's my second favorite Western of all time.
That begs the $64, 000 question! What is your favourite? 🤔✌️
@@dermothoran1814the Apple Dumpling Gang
@@patfromamboyI don't know that movie. Thank you for the recommendation, from Lancashire, U.K.! 🏴🇮🇪
@@patfromamboy Har! 😆 What about Blazing Saddles though? 😆
@@patfromamboy no one beats Don Knotts and Tim Conway as rough and tumble cowpokes. 🤣🤣🤣
Some people say the Spaghetti Westerns. Some people say ‘Unforgiven’. I still say The Outlaw Josey Wales is Clint Eastwood’s best western.
I prefer the the Spaghetti Westerns, but my Grandfather would agree with you that Wales is the best. To me though the Sergio Leone films with Eastwood and 2/3 of them with Lee Van Cleef were unbelievable. Though Wales is more quotable.
Shut up Lige
I’d go with Wales & Unforgiven equally #1 depending on my mood
Pale Rider for me
@ XTRABIG
Outlaw Josey Wales
Unforgiven
Pale Rider
High Plains Drifter
My top 4 Clint Eastwood westerns
I’m just going to say it…. The outlaw Josey wales is the best western movie ever made
Definitely my favorite Clint movie
I'd say second best. The shootist, John Wayne and then the cowboys, John Wayne.
This is definitely one of the greatest ever made. I do think Unforgiven is just a tad better, but I wouldn't mount an argument for that decision.
Absolutely👍
I watch these westerns at least once a year. Over the years that I know most of the lines.
Greatest western ever. Josie just kills one deserving scumbag after another, from start to finish
QUALITY COMMENT. 😄😄😄❤👍🇬🇧
Even Uncle Leo.
Yeah. And I like it where he says that the buzzards gotta eat just as much as the worms. Lol
The book was better. But, yes one of the best movies.
@@peach495 He was heartless. But you've gotta be that way when you live by the righteous way of life. And not with what your country or the government tells you to live by? I wished they'd go back to having public hangings myself?
An incredible legendary actor and director and and even better gentleman...Clint Eastwood is an Icon...God Bless him...
No, champ, he’s just a filthy rich actor.
Hell yeah Clint all day and all night!!
I have watched this scene over and over for years and years. And I will continue to watch it as long as I live. Pilgrims. Hah!
It is the Ionic Western scene
and I want to see
Me to
Me to
One of the greatest westerns ever made !
The greatest
Trump taking out the leftist phyco paths
If there's one western movie scene of all time that I'd like to watch a billion times . Here it is !!!!
I've probably watched it more than a hundred. lol
One of the greatest westerns/civil war movies ever. Never to be duplicated.
My Goodness!!! Honestly I can watch this scene over, over and over again,the way he flips Dem pistols is just Amazing every time
Great scene
Called a Road Agents spin.
Dem? Are you trying to be edgy, or are you just dumb? 😂😂😂
@@rjb7032 How the hell do you do it? What does it look like in slo mo?
@@rjb7032border roll
Hard to believe Clint is 90 yrs old , one of the very best ever ! ! ! ! !
Yep a recon so
Legendary
Yes Yeahh
I’m 100!
AALLLL AMERICAN PATRIOT!!!
My favorite western!!! " I ain't your paaaw"" one of my favorite scenes.
That’s Uncle Leo from Seinfeld.
Shut up, Lige!!!
Greatest scene in movie history! The world will suck even more, when this legend is gone.
Dyin aint much of a livin
You got that right.
My all time favorite actor
Legends do not die
The "Missouri Boat Ride" scene was my favorite.
"I got me josey wales!"
Famous last words
Ha you’re right. Hilarious
"Now ease those pistols out - but first" . "Like molasses in the winter time".
Oh no you don't !
One of the best western scenes period. Clint is my all time favorite.
Clint Eastwood, one of the last real men in Hollywood.
LOL That's hilarious.
@@biggtrux Agreed. Everyone forgets about Tim Allen.
@@biggtrux What the hell is so funny about that mary
Him and John Wayne.
Jiminy Glick is a real Hollywood man
"To hell with them fellas. Buzzards gotta eat same as worms." JW
The dialogue in this film is just awesome. ....
“Now remember, when things look bad and it looks like you're not gonna make it, then you gotta get mean. I mean plumb, mad-dog mean. 'Cause if you lose your head and you give up, then you neither live nor win. That's just the way it is.“. Great Josey Wales pep talk.
“ dying ain’t much of a living boy “ 😂
😂😂😂😂😂
Love that line. I always cite it when someone tells me smoking is a wonderful lifestyle.
I like "you gonna pull those pistols or whistle Dixie"
Everyone’s got it coming kid
Mr. chain blue lightning himself..
The lines are just unmatched in old Eastwood westerns.
Going to cinema when a big Clint movie came out was one of lifes highlights.
Yep. I remember where I was when I saw this for the first time. New Orleans. And I was 16 years old. Great movie.
God bless the both of you
That's right my Old man took me to see Josey Wales when I was 10
Something to be said for a hero with guts, tenacity and strength. No technology or superpowers!
Just Col. Colt.
Amen to that.
A lot to be said
When a man is right - he's right...
And I carry an 1860
He just made the BEST westerns ever! I never tire of him in any western or Dirty Harry Film! dx
Classic Clint! An entertaining mix of suspense, comedy and violence! A terrific scene!
Clint has so many iconic scenes in his illustrious career that one can easily be persuaded as to their favorite. For me, this is it.
I Like the Mule shoot out.
There are sooooooooooooooooooooooo many scenes though. Calling one a favorite is the same is saying what your favorite food/dinner is. He was the reason I got my S&W Model 29 in 1991 though.....very near Carmel where he was mayor at the time. He'll always be a favorite. Too bad Hollywood isn't capable of making movies like this anymore. It's been dead for over a decade now.
I like the 10 beers scene 😋
"Dying ain't much of a livin boy."
“Now remember, when things look bad and it looks like you're not gonna make it, then you gotta get mean. I mean plumb, mad-dog mean. 'Cause if you lose your head and you give up, then you neither live nor win. That's just the way it is.“
Yeah, just the most badass dudes ever. Clint will live forever
There's only a few western movies I can watch over and over again..
The Life and times of judge Roy Bean, little big man and The outlaw Josey Wales.
Probably a few others but those are the ones that come to mind.
Little big man traumatized me when I saw it in the theater as an 8 year old boy with the scene where his Indian wife and her infant gets shot down by clusters troops in the snow.....that was awful
"Now let's see". "You say those horses belong to them there Pilgrams?"
This Film should have won him his First Oscar. 1976 had very tough variety of competition for epic Films such as Rocky and Others.
I don’t remember “Others.” What was that about?
Hollywood could remake this movie a hundred times and never capture the magic this movie has.
Know one ever did westerns like Clint. He changed it all.
Clip from what I think is Eastwood's best movie, among all of his great ones. The best western ever made.
This silhouette of Clint should be a stamp of approval on all westerns deserving of it! Kinda like Jerry West is the "Logo" of the NBA!!!
They could have used it for’
(In Clint’s voice) “I don’t always drink beer, but when I do, I drink Dos Equis.”
In the calmest voice "well let's see...say those horses belong to them there pilgrims huh" Cold as hell.
Growing up in the Bay Area, Northern California, my high school friend bragged about how they found out where he lived, they were hanging in front of his house and he came out and in a very smooth voice said”now you boys just slide on and out of here.” Probably one of the coolest things would be Clint telling you nicely to get lost! 😂
There are so many good westerns that I have enjoyed it's hard for me to name a favorite but this one is definitely in my top 5.
I have got this movie DVD of
which is my favourite Clint Eastwood
movie with the late Sondra Locke
with Joan Vernon in
The Outlaw Josey Wales
I am dedicating this movie DVD to my old school friends who are both sisters as I hope to see them both again to Chris and Hester Brand from Billyxxx
This movie shows why Eastwood is the best cowboy bar none. sorry Mr Wayne but the searchers was great, but this was in a class of its own.
They both played cowboys, they both played military men, they both played cops. Clint however directs and he writes music to many of his movies. Edge to Clint. But my favorite John Wayne movie was his last one, a western. ‘The Shootist’.
@@jogman262 Don't argue both made great movies. Hey a
HOW about Shane?
It is impossible for me to ever tire of this scene.
We shouldnt really try to decide which Clint Eastwood movie was his best. Be thankfully we have them all. We won't always have him, so we will be glad for every single one of his movies. I know I am! I just wish he could make one more! 😃
“He ain’t a hard man to track. He leaves dead men wherever he goes”.
I luv it. The old man has the drop on Josie and yet still calls him "Mr. Lightning."
My favorites are High Plains Drifter, Pale Rider, Unforgiven and without a doubt, The Outlaw Josey Wales is the best. Amen 🤩
1:07 dude the way he opens the door standing like a demon from hell. Shits about to go down
Copied from the SEARCHERS where John Wayne stands in the door.
"I say that big talk is worth doodly squat."
“Are you gonna pull those pistols or whistle Dixie?”
"Dont piss down my back, and tell me it's rainin". " everyone had good lines in this move, even granny at the river.
Kinda partial to "We got something in this territory called a Missouri boat ride", and "Its a good thing you came along when you did, I might have killed her"
Always loved that line, “Don’t Piss, well you know it! I’ve told people that before, and got some interesting responses and looks too!
@@tomseadon9965 thats old saying leg is use in that metaphor too.
"Ease them pistols out." That was the most I've ever laughed in my life.
Clint character brilliant, he is a super star, soon as that door flies open. Got to be the best western of movie history, even when he spit on their dead body' classic move
Luckily dna wasn’t invented yet
Except that guy was still moving though he was definitely circling the drain. That's what made it even colder.
I cannot scroll by this movie on TV without watching.......
Oh yeah, and the best quote also, "dyin aint much of a livin boy" hell yeah!!!
You a bounty hunter? Mans gotta make a livin. " Dyin aint much of a livin boy!
And don't forget--
"When I take a likin' to someone, they ain't around long."
"When you take a dislikin' to someone, they ain't around long either."
@@comeacross9 "Maybe it was six."
If I remember correctly,this was Clint’s personal favorite of all his movies.
It was
@@corycg1956 IS
Josey Wales : When I get to likin' someone, they ain't around long.
Lone Watie : I notice when you get to DISlikin' someone they ain't around for long neither.
🤣😂😅🤣
It's true somewhat.
One of the best movie lines ever!!
Back in the days when writing a script was actually done well I don't know why today movies just suck .
Modern movies are garbage because they are propaganda.
Clint Eastwood produced and directed films that have a soul.
Mix of propaganda, lack of talent, and computers
Good luck getting some corporate yuppie to be all passionate about a movie; Hollywood spends 200 mill for a commercial. Sometimes there's a decent movie in there.. sometimes
@@darthdracul8758 In the 1980's had to rely on writing, set building, and real acting all they had to work with.
When I was a kid, I hated westerns. This one changed my mind.
Me too...☺
They don't get any better than this one
One of my fave movie scenes ever🏆 I met Clint in 1988 when he was mayor of Carmel and owned the Hogs Breath In .
“When I say move, you move real slow, like molasses in wintertime…”
Mr. Chain Blue Lightning himself
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly is my favorite Clint Eastwood spaghetti western…. All 2 hours and 58 minutes of it!
Joseph Wales is better 😁
When I was teaching about viscosity of liquids in science class, I loved using the molasses in winter time line to represent a liquid flowing slowly.
“Are you gonna pull those pistols or whistle Dixie?”
My favourite western movie, period.
The best western every made.
Not always just probably my favorite Clint movie but you always keep looking for the one-liners from Chief Dan George
Everybody gangsta until Clint walks in.
This is a great movie I miss the days movies like this come on 📺 tv for free
The greatest western ever made
That was the greatest scene ever, right up until the next scene of The Outlaw Josey Wales.
One of my dad's favorites rock on Clint!!! Run for president!!!!!😊
@1:30 the background at the door scenery looks very different then when Josey (Eastwood) enters through the door the first time. It looks like an auto wreckers yard with junked cars piled up? Quite bizarre?? Anyone else see/notice that? If indeed a blooper, very strange on why that would be seen after the first door opening?
Can’t you just enjoy the scene without trying to ruin it?
You cant deny his awareness though, it went from a mid 1800's setting to the realization that they used some shack on a salvage yard because it fit the bill. It's almost like josey Wales should of asked for a specific classic car part. I will never veiw that scene the same.
I think the shop keeper is reconsidering his even split...
He's just lucky that the Josey Wales didn't train his pistols on him, and start firing! Happy to be alive, that's what he is! Which is more than you can say for them two pilgrims that got blasted. And the Squaw? Well, I reckon he decided to let her tag along, and leave that there storekeeper high & dry...and...still alive!
The Good, the bad, and the ugly is the greatest western ever made!
Them there pilgrims”. Priceless!
Josey Wales is up there as a favorite, but I have Unforgiven, and if we're talking westerns Wild Bunch and Searchers. A lot of good movies out there. I'm just happy I get to see them.
They are all outstanding, hard to choose
Well he's not a hard man to track leaves dead men wherever he goes.
I know it's a real drag !
Seldom more deserving.
@@originalmicdrop
Ha ha That’s a good way to put it.
That's the way too do it. One of best western movies!.
Eastwood always found great character actors
Bill McKinney from Deliverance and Buck Kartalian the store keeper in this movie
Love that military drum roll after the fact. Moves me!
That's a beautiful Native American lady...
She is acting!
@@garynicholls1448 She's not acting being Native American. Geraldine Keams was raised on the Navajo reservation then went to the University of Arizona, where she studied drama and film.
Great underrated actor and a very special Director. Naming his best films is like naming the brightest star. Too many to pick one.
He was not Under rated he was the greatest actor in history
@@jimmyolsen5897 certainly a great actor but so many critics never saw it, they just saw a cowboy.
@@daistoke1314 What about dirty harry Coogans bluff magnum force Where Eagles Dare Million dollar baby grand Torino
@@jimmyolsen5897 sorry Jimmy not sure about your point we both like Clint, critics often didn't but we do. But I will say Where Eagles Dare is best bad war movie ever made. Some of best British actors, ever, and Clint. I'm humming the theme as I type.
@@daistoke1314 Just trying to say he was more than a cowboy
I like how he uses a lot of the same people in his movies, like this guy who just got the first drop on Josey also was his partner in Dirty Harry movies, till he got killed in one of them. Even Red Legs Terrell. Same cop in “The Gauntlet”
Wild Bill McKinney was also in Thunderbolt and Lightfoot. Along with part of the bike gang in Every Which Way But Loose. Also Bronco Billy. He was good friends with Clint and worked on many of his works.
The late Geoffrey Lewis was in quite a few of his movies.
One of my all time favourites!
Rated in top five greatest flicks ever
One of the best damn movies ever made!!
Tied with Once Upon A Time In The West.Fonda and Bronson.
This and The Searchers are my. 2 favs
Clint Eastwood was and is a great actor especially in westerns this was my favorite western movie
My favorite also, one of his best performances!
Clint Eastwood a true American and the greatest actor of all time
Use to be John Wayne but times change.
I prefer Eastwood to Wayne
The man knows how to make an entrance... and an exit for the losers.
The silhouetted door way shot is right out of John Wayne in the Searchers.
“I got him, I got me the Josey Wales!” Yeah like hell you do.
The Duke, John Wayne, was the epitome of American Westerns from mid-40s to 1970s. Clint Eastwood/Sam Elliott picked up the mantle until early 2000s. Sadly, that genre is dying out w/no one to carry on that tradition....
Harry Miram
Sadly, your right. I'd hate to see the classic western fade into history. Denzel Washington and company did a great job remaking the Magnificent Seven but I don't see him picking up the genre.
@@roberobe1411...For a little while, thought Sam Elliott looked like an credible candidate. Loved his work in The Sacketts, Shadow Riders, Conagher &, most recently, as Caretaker in Ghost Rider....
Scott Eastwood
@@harrymiram6621 Elliot was great in Tombstone. For me, that is the last great Hollywood Western.
Kyokogodai...No argument here! Sad to see the great American Western die out/fade away so Quietly/Meekly....
Josie Wales is easily Clint's second greatest character, just behind William Munny.
Got to put Harry Callahan on that list too.
No way Josey Wales is number 1.
Is this a feel good moment or what? Can’t watch it enough.
Thank God for gritty realism. This is a long way from Roy and Dale.
Little Bill: "Well sir you just shot an unarmed man."
J. Wales: "... Well he should have armed himself if he is going to decorate his store with my friend..."
That wasn't Josey Wales. Bill Munny took care of business and Little Bill Daggett in that exchange.
I stand corrected!!
@@roberobe1411 Hang on. That scene and that line from Unforgiven is a classic.
I've now watched Josie so many times that I know half of the lines!
I stand corrected!
@@chrisgibson5267 The Unforgiven and The Outlaw Josey Wales are definitely two of his very best films.
You be ten bears, I'm josey Wales, brilliant dialogue.
"Welcome to our flash sale on horses."
Timeless classic western
Clint is what America is about...
Tell you what , this movie is just about on equal par with The good the Bad and the Ugly !
I love when the door swings open and hes standing there - trouble has arrived
The very best scene I ve ever seen in a movie