The outlaw Josey Wales

[amprecon]

...hmmm

 

[Shanghai McCoy]

"There's three kinds of Suns in Kansas. Sunshine, sunflowers and sons of bi....s"

 

[FiveStrings]

"There is iron in your words of death for all Comanche to see, and so there is iron in your words of life. No signed paper can hold the iron. It must come from men."

 

[wlkjr]

I love Chief Dan George. My favorite line is when he says "I didn't surrender, they took my horse and made him surrender. He's probably pulling a wagon up in Kansas." We made a rock in our garden that says "Endeavor to persevere."

 

[Phaedrus/69]

I absolutely loved the movie, one of my favorite Eastwood films of all time. It's actually one of the first movies I ever saw at the theater. Dad didn't go to the movies often but he loved Clint so at the tender age of 9 or 10 I was allowed to go along to see it.

Incidentally for videophiles out there the HD transfer from film is amazing! Aside from all the old folks being young this movie looks like it was shot last year. Awesome disc (the Blu-Ray version).

 

[45 Dragoon]

Oh, it's not fer eatin . . . . . it's fer lookin thru.

Mike
www.goonsgunworks.com

 

[BSA1]

It is a shame he died in a gunfight in Mexico. But he did take 4 of them with him.

 

[MagnumDweeb]

Great movie, but now I'm mixed 'cause of the fact it was written by an anti-semite and klansman.

 

[45 Dragoon]

Yeah well, I guess for some, people can't change (he's been dead 40 years + so, he can't defend himself). Funny how you wouldn't know the writers past by what was portrayed in the movie !! You know, the part about men living together without butchering each other. Oh well, I thought it was a fun post.

I guess " let he who is without sin cast the first stone".

Glad to know where you stand . . . Dweeb

Mike

PS. maybe you could give us a brief history of your puritanical past.

Pss. Wait a minute . . . it just dawned on me! you're really Al Sharpton aren't you?

 

[Billy Shears]

My favorite line from the movie was right after the Navajo girl, Little Moonlight, was left behind in the town as Josie and Lone Watie had to make a hurried escape following the shootout with the Union soldiers.

Lone Watie: "Well, I guess we ain't gonna see that little Navajo girl again."

Josie: "I guess not. I kinda liked her. But then it's always like that."

Lone Watie: "Like What?"

Josie: "Whenever 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."

Seriously though, as far as weapons go, I think it would have made more sense for Josie to have a pair of .44 army revolvers than those huge Walkers, which were never meant to be belt pistols -- would have been a lot more realistic, as he was supposed to be a fast draw artist, and a huge, long, overweight cannon like the Walker is hardly the gun such a pistoleer would choose if he wanted to be fast. (Indeed, in the fast draw scenes against those same soldiers mentioned above, and the bounty hunter he kills in a later scene, you see he actually does leave the right hand Walker in its holster, and prefers a third gun -- an army model carried cross draw fashion in his belt.) The author of the book "Gone to Texas" only wrote "Colt .44" as Josie's guns too. But I suppose that Clint had established a persona, as the Dirty Harry actor, as an action hero who had to have the biggest, most powerful handgun out there, so they carried that over to give him Colt Walkers.

 

[the Black Spot]

I absolutely loved the movie, one of my favorite Eastwood films of all time. It's actually one of the first movies I ever saw at the theater. Dad didn't go to the movies often but he loved Clint so at the tender age of 9 or 10 I was allowed to go along to see it.

Incidentally for videophiles out there the HD transfer from film is amazing! Aside from all the old folks being young this movie looks like it was shot last year. Awesome disc (the Blu-Ray version).

I had a dvd version that i would not let a 9 yr old see, and not because of violence either.
Was the theater version rated pg when it came out?
Just curious, because my dvd version said pg on it and it was definitely not pg!

 

[PainlessWolf]

Sat down last night and watched this movie again. It is a classic! Great firearms and usage. The actors did a great job, believable and did I mention the firearms? ;o)

 

[SlayerOfBunnies]

"I'm as pert as a ruttin' buck."

 

[Rusty Shakleford]

Yep, great movie for sure. But Pale Rider was what got me into BP pistols. I knew NOTHING about bp until I got to looking closer (had seen the movie dozens of times already) at the '58 cylinder change. That's the first time I really looked at the pistol......and HAD to have one! My all blued Uberti '58 is now my open carry choice.

 

[kBob]

Rusty,

You aren't fooling us....it was the Trinity movies with all that spinning and tossing!

-kBob