"style, a story about whalers, played by Warren Oates, Louis Gossett, Jr., and Timothy Bottoms, stranded in the Arctic at the turn of the century. To survive they battle polar bears and take advantage of the Eskimos who had originally saved them. Kaufman wrote and began directing ""The Outlaw Josey Wales"" (1976) but was fired as director after disagreements with its star Clint Eastwood who then directed the film himself. Before filming began, Eastwood felt the screenplay needed more suspense and hired Kaufman to polish the story. He also thought Kaufman would be a good choice to direct, after being"
"""The Outlaw Josey Wales"" (1976), as Lone Watie, opposite Clint Eastwood. Born as Geswanouth Slahoot in North Vancouver, his English name was originally Dan Slaholt. The surname was changed to George when he entered a residential school at age 5. He worked at a number of different jobs, including as a longshoreman, construction worker, and school bus driver, and was band chief of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation from 1951 to 1963 (then called the Burrard Indian Band). In 1960, when he was already 60 years old, he landed his first acting job in a CBC Television series, ""Cariboo Country"", as the"
"Frank Wells, that has lasted to the present day. ""The Outlaw Josey Wales"" (1976), a western inspired by Asa Carter's 1972 novel of the same name, has lead character Josey Wales (Eastwood) as a pro-Confederate guerilla who refuses to surrender his arms after the American Civil War and is chased across the old southwest by a group of enforcers. The supporting cast included Locke as his love interest and Chief Dan George as an elderly Cherokee who strikes up a friendship with Wales. Director Philip Kaufman was fired by producer Bob Daley under Eastwood's command, resulting in a fine reported"
"able to finish making the film efficiently. Upon release in August 1976, ""The Outlaw Josey Wales"" was widely acclaimed by critics, many of whom saw Eastwood's role as an iconic one, relating it with much of America's ancestral past and the destiny of the nation after the American Civil War. The film was pre-screened at the Sun Valley Center for the Arts and Humanities in Idaho in a six-day conference entitled ""Western Movies: Myths and Images"". Academics such as Bruce Jackson, critics such as Jay Cocks and Arthur Knight and directors such as King Vidor, Henry King, William Wyler and"
"Clint Eastwood hired Kaufman to write ""The Outlaw Josey Wales"". In May 1977, Lucas was in Maui, trying to escape the enormous success of ""Star Wars"". His friend and colleague Steven Spielberg was also there, on vacation from work on ""Close Encounters of the Third Kind"". Spielberg told Lucas he was interested in making a James Bond film, but Lucas told him of an idea ""better than James Bond"", outlining the plot of ""Raiders of the Lost Ark"". Spielberg loved it, calling it ""a James Bond film without the hardware"", though he had the character's surname changed to Jones. Spielberg"
"uncredited appearance at the beginning of the film.) Ferris Webster was hired as editor and Jerry Fielding as musical composer. Principal photography for ""The Outlaw Josey Wales"" began in mid-October 1975. A rift between Eastwood and Kaufman developed during the filming. Kaufman insisted on filming with a meticulous attention to detail which caused disagreements with Eastwood, not to mention the attraction the two shared towards Locke and apparent jealousy on Kaufman's part in regards to their emerging relationship. One evening Kaufman insisted on finding a beer can as a prop to be used in a scene but whilst he was"
"The Outlaw The Outlaw is a 1943 American Western film, directed by Howard Hughes and starring Jack Buetel, Jane Russell, Thomas Mitchell, and Walter Huston. Hughes also produced the film, while Howard Hawks served as an uncredited co-director. The film is notable as Russell's breakthrough role, turning the young actress into a sex symbol and a Hollywood icon. Later advertising billed Russell as the sole star. Sheriff Pat Garrett (Thomas Mitchell) welcomes his old friend Doc Holliday (Walter Huston) to Lincoln, New Mexico. Doc is looking for his stolen horse and finds it in the possession of Billy the Kid"
"pistol aside. Gideon helps Carver to his feet and the two men walk into the distance away from one another. In a final scene, Gideon takes his knife, which he has used throughout the film, and throws it into the ground. Notable similarities have been found between the film and the 1976 revisionist western, ""The Outlaw Josey Wales"" directed by Clint Eastwood. David Von Ancken first researched the script for six months before joining Abby Everett Jaques to create the screenplay. The film was originally announced at the Cannes Film Festival with Liam Neeson and Richard Gere in the lead"
"try to convince him that the war is over, because he owes him that. Wales says that they all died a little in the war, before riding off. ""The Outlaw Josey Wales"" was inspired by a 1972 novel by Forrest Carter, and was originally titled """" and later retitled ""Gone to Texas"". The script was worked on by Sonia Chernus and producer Bob Daley at Malpaso, and Eastwood himself paid some of the money to obtain the screen rights. Michael Cimino and Philip Kaufman later oversaw the writing of the script, aiding Chernus. Kaufman wanted the film to stay as"
"that the true expression of sexuality in this film comes from the relationship between Doc Holliday and Billy the Kid. He further writes that the film is about ""the complications that arise when Doc Holliday falls in love with Billy the Kid, and Pat Garett becomes jealous of the bond that develops between the two men."" The Outlaw The Outlaw is a 1943 American Western film, directed by Howard Hughes and starring Jack Buetel, Jane Russell, Thomas Mitchell, and Walter Huston. Hughes also produced the film, while Howard Hawks served as an uncredited co-director. The film is notable as Russell's"
"(1971), where Fielding delighted in creating a neo-Baroque orchestral score of which he was most proud. Winner would go on to team with Charles Bronson in Death Wish. His last film for Winner was the 1978 remake of ""The Big Sleep"", starring Robert Mitchum and considered a classic of 1970s neo-LA Noir. His collaboration with the famously jazz-loving Clint Eastwood began when Eastwood chose Fielding to compose the score to ""The Outlaw Josey Wales"". Fielding presumably didn't know that the author of the original novel, Forrest Carter, was a Klansman and segregationist. Fielding, assuming he was scoring a popular young"
"Howard Hawks were invited to the screening. The film would later appear in ""Time"" magazine's Top 10 films of the year. Roger Ebert compared the nature and vulnerability of Eastwood's portrayal of Josey Wales with his ""Man with No Name"" character in the Dollars Trilogy and praised the atmosphere of the film. On ""The Merv Griffin Show"", Orson Welles lauded the film, calling Eastwood ""one of America's finest directors."" Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes retrospectively gave the film a 95% rating based on reviews from 38 critics. ""The Outlaw Josey Wales"" was nominated for the Academy Award for Original Music Score."
"of Josey Wales with his Man With No Name character in his Dollars westerns and praised the atmosphere of the film. The film was awarded a 97% rating on the critical website Rotten Tomatoes. After ""The Outlaw Josey Wales"", Eastwood was offered the role of Benjamin L. Willard in Francis Coppola's ""Apocalypse Now"" but declined as he did not want to spend weeks in the Philippines shooting it. He was offered the part of a platoon leader in Ted Post's Vietnam War film, ""Go Tell the Spartans"". Eastwood refused the part and Burt Lancaster played the character instead. Eastwood was"
"Bill McKinney William Denison McKinney (September 12, 1931 – December 1, 2011) was an American character actor whose most famous role was the sadistic mountain man in John Boorman's 1972 film ""Deliverance"". McKinney was also recognizable for his performances in seven Clint Eastwood films, most notably as Captain Terrill, commander pursuing the last rebels to ""hold out"" against surrendering to the Union forces in ""The Outlaw Josey Wales"". William Denison McKinney was born September 12, 1931, in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He had an unsettled life as a child, moving 12 times. At the age of 19, he joined the Navy during"
"of Eastwood's stock company after they worked together in Michael Cimino's ""Thunderbolt and Lightfoot"". He appeared in ""The Outlaw Josey Wales"" under Eastwood's direction. He appeared in six more Eastwood films including ""The Gauntlet"", ""Every Which Way but Loose"", ""Any Which Way You Can"" and ""Pink Cadillac"". Other memorable roles include Jay Cobb, who is done in by John Wayne's ""The Shootist"". He also appeared in such later films as ""First Blood"", ""Back to the Future Part III"" and ""The Green Mile"". He appeared in the TV movie ""The Execution of Private Slovik"" (1974) and guest-starred on such television shows"
"John Vernon John Keith Vernon (born Adolphus Raymondus Vernon Agopsowicz; February 24, 1932 – February 1, 2005) was a Canadian actor. He made a career in Hollywood after achieving initial television stardom in Canada. He was best known for playing Dean Wormer in ""Animal House"", his role as the Mayor in ""Dirty Harry"" and as Fletcher in ""The Outlaw Josey Wales"". Vernon was born Adolphus Raymondus Vernon Agopsowicz in Zehner, Saskatchewan. He was one of two sons of Adolf Agopsowicz, a grocer, and his wife Eleonore Krückel (also spelled as Kriekle or Kriekel). Both parents' families immigrated to the Edenwold"
"familiar with the Western as a criticism and expansion against and beyond the genre. Eastwood's film ""The Outlaw Josey Wales"" (1976) made use of strong supporting roles for women and Native Americans. The films ""The Long Riders"" (1980) and ""The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford"" (2007) are revisionist films dealing with the James gang. Jeffrey Wright's portrayal of Black Confederate Daniel Holt riding with the Missouri Bushwhackers in ""Ride with the Devil"" tells the stories of the Missouri-Kansas Border War and Lawrence Massacre. Foreign markets, which had imported the Western since their silent film inception, began"
"Alcatraz"", ""Tightrope"", ""The Bridges of Madison County"", and ""Gran Torino"". Eastwood started directing in 1971, and in 1982, his debut as a producer began with two films, ""Firefox"" and ""Honkytonk Man"". Eastwood also has contributed music to his films, either through performing or composing. He has starred in western, action, comedy, and drama films. Eastwood has been a primary character in two film franchises: as the Man with No Name in the ""Dollars"" Trilogy and as Harry Callahan in the ""Dirty Harry"" series. Other notable roles include Josey Wales in ""The Outlaw Josey Wales"", the Stranger in ""High Plains Drifter"","
"complications following heart surgery on February 1, 2005, in Westwood, California, only 23 days shy of his 73rd birthday. He was cremated after a private funeral service. John Vernon John Keith Vernon (born Adolphus Raymondus Vernon Agopsowicz; February 24, 1932 – February 1, 2005) was a Canadian actor. He made a career in Hollywood after achieving initial television stardom in Canada. He was best known for playing Dean Wormer in ""Animal House"", his role as the Mayor in ""Dirty Harry"" and as Fletcher in ""The Outlaw Josey Wales"". Vernon was born Adolphus Raymondus Vernon Agopsowicz in Zehner, Saskatchewan. He was"
"to be around $60,000 from the Directors Guild of America—who subsequently passed new legislation reserving the right to impose a major fine on a producer for discharging and replacing a director. The film was pre-screened at the Sun Valley Center for the Arts and Humanities in Idaho during a six-day conference entitled ""Western Movies: Myths and Images"". Invited to the screening were a number of esteemed film critics, including Jay Cocks and Arthur Knight; directors such as King Vidor, William Wyler, and Howard Hawks; and a number of academics. Upon release in the summer of 1976 ""The Outlaw Josey Wales"""
"to conceal his background as a Klansman and segregationist, claiming categorically in a 1976 ""New York Times"" article that he, Forrest, was not Asa Carter. The article describes him as Forrest Carter being interviewed by Barbara Walters on the ""Today"" show in 1974. He was promoting ""The Rebel Outlaw: Josey Wales"", which had begun to attract readers beyond the confines of the Western genre. Carter, who had run for governor of Alabama (as Asa Carter) just four years earlier, was identified by several Alabama politicians, reporters, and law enforcement officials from this ""Today"" show appearance. ""The Times"" also reported that"
"separation and lingering bout of hepatitis during the mid-1960s, expressed desire to reconcile and start a family. They had two children together: Kyle Eastwood (born May 19, 1968) and Alison Eastwood (born May 22, 1972). In 1972, Eastwood met married actress (later director) Sondra Locke at a meeting in his office on the Universal Studios Lot. The two began living together while filming ""The Outlaw Josey Wales"" in Page, Arizona in October 1975, by which time, according to Locke, ""He had told me that there was no real relationship left between him and Maggie."" Locke wrote in her autobiography, ""Clint"
"but which turned out to be fiction. In 1976, following the success of ""The Rebel Outlaw"" and its film adaptation, ""The Outlaw Josey Wales"" (1976), ""The New York Times"" revealed Forrest Carter was actually southerner Asa Earl Carter. His background became national news again in 1991 after his purported memoir, ""The Education of Little Tree"" (1976), was re-issued in paperback, topped the ""Times"" paperback best-seller lists (both non-fiction and fiction), and won the American Booksellers Book of the Year (ABBY) award. Prior to his literary career as ""Forrest"", Carter was politically active for years in Alabama as an opponent of"
"surrender to Union officers, but they end up being massacred. Wales becomes an outlaw and is pursued by bounty hunters and Union soldiers. The film was adapted by Sonia Chernus and Philip Kaufman from author Forrest Carter's 1972 novel """" (republished, as shown in the movie's opening credits, as ""Gone to Texas""). The film was a commercial success, earning $31.8 million against a $3.7 million budget. In 1996, the film was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress for being deemed ""culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant"". Josey Wales was portrayed by Michael Parks in"
"was known for his acting in gangster films, and also ""The Outlaw Josey Wales"" and ""Kelly's Heroes"". When Lesser auditioned for the part on October 22, 1990, he got a lot of laughs from David, Seinfeld and casting director Marc Herschfield, but did not understand why, because he did not think his lines were funny. Herschfield stated that Lesser was the right actor for the part when Lesser had auditioned. David Fresco guest starred in the episode as Isaac. Fresco had some difficulty with his lines in the episode, and would sometimes burst into laughter during filming. Other actors who"
"climbers. Once again Eastwood would blame the production company for the poor earnings and publicity of the film and departed from Universal Studios once again, forming a long-lasting agreement with Warner Brothers through Frank Wells that would transcend over 35 years of cinema and remain intact to this day. The story to ""The Outlaw Josey Wales"" was inspired by a 1972 novel by an apparent Native Indian uneducated writer Forrest Carter, originally titled ""Gone to Texas"" and later retitled ""The Rebel Outlaw:Josey Wales"". Later it would be revealed that Forrest Carter's identity was fake, and that the real author was"
"and works by amateur historians. He was later discussed in biographies of Quantrill, which typically cast Anderson as an inveterate murderer. Three biographies of Anderson were written after 1975. Asa Earl Carter's novel """" (1972) features Anderson as a main character. In 1976, the book was adapted into a film, ""The Outlaw Josey Wales"", which portrays a man who joins Anderson's gang after his wife is killed by Union-backed raiders. James Carlos Blake's novel ""Wildwood Boys"" (2000) is a fictional biography of Anderson. He also appears as a character in several films about Jesse James. Historians have been mixed in"
"Spielberg's ""E.T.""' and he came out and said, 'That's what I want to do'."" Newmyer went on to hold a variety of positions at Columbia Pictures, before becoming a vice president of production and acquisitions. Newmyer and Jeffrey Silver formed ""Outlaw Productions"", the name derived from Newmyer's favorite Clint Eastwood character, the outlaw Josey Wales. The production company had, for a time, a long-term deal with Warner Brothers. Chairwoman of Sony Motion Pictures Group, Amy Pascal said,""Bobby was a true maverick and a true risk-taker. Newmyer was married to wife Deborah Jelin Newmyer for nineteen years. They have four children,"
"The Last Outlaw (1927 film) The Last Outlaw is a 1927 American silent Western film directed by Arthur Rosson and starring Gary Cooper, Jack Luden, and Betty Jewel. Written by John Stone and J. Walter Rubin, based on a story by Richard Allen Gates, the film is about a frontiersman who falls in love with a pretty woman whose brother is accused of murder. He tries to prove the young man innocent of the charges, but when he is appointed sheriff, he is obliged to track down and arrest the boy. A 16mm reduction positive print exists of this film."
"Asa Carter, a onetime racist and supporter of Ku Klux Klan school of politics. The script was worked on by Sonia Chernus and producer Bob Daley at Malpaso and Eastwood himself paid some of the money to obtain the screen rights. It would be a Western, and the lead character, Josey Wales, is a rebel southerner who refuses to surrender his arms after the American Civil War and is chased across the old southwest by a group of enforcers. Michael Cimono and Philip Kaufman later overlooked the writing of the script, aiding Chernus. Kaufman wanted the film to stay as"
"in the fall of 1983. While Tuggle retained the director's credit, as with ""The Outlaw Josey Wales"" on which original director Philip Kaufman was replaced by the star, Eastwood directed most of the movie after finding Tuggle working too slowly. The film was released in United States theaters in August 1984. It eventually grossed $48 million at the United States box office. In its opening weekend Tightrope was number 1, taking in $9,156,545, an average $5,965 per theater. The film has an 82% freshness rating on Rotten Tomatoes, out of 11 reviews. Roger Ebert praised the film for taking chances"
"close to the story of the novel as possible and retained many of the mannerisms in Josey Wales's character which Eastwood would display on screen such as his distinctive lingo with words like ""reckin"", ""hoss"" (instead of ""horse"") and ""ye"" (instead of ""you"") and spitting tobacco juice on animals and victims. The characters of Wales, the Cherokee chief, Navajo squaw and the old settler woman and her daughter all appeared in the novel. Cinematographer Bruce Surtees, James Fargo and Fritz Manes scouted for locations and eventually found sites in Utah, Arizona and Wyoming even before they saw the final script."
"Grand Slam (1978 film) Grand Slam is a 1978 sports comedy film produced by BBC Wales. The film starred Oscar-winning actor Hugh Griffith, Windsor Davies, Dewi ""Pws"" Morris and Sion Probert. The play was written for television by Gwenlyn Parry and then-head of drama for BBC Wales, John Hefin. Four men, members of a Welsh rugby union club, fly to Paris as part of a weekend outing to see Wales play France in the Five Nations Championship match that will decide the Grand Slam title. One of the party is funeral director Caradog Lloyd-Evans (Griffith), who briefly served in occupied"