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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. A rift between Eastwood and Kaufman developed during the filming. Principal photography began in mid-October 1975. The film also featured his real-life seven-year old son Kyle Eastwood, with Ferris Webster hired as editor and Jerry Fielding as musical composer.

This marked the beginning of a close relationship between Eastwood and Locke that would last six films and the beginning of a romance that would last into the late 1980s. Sondra Locke, also a previous Academy Award nominee was cast by Eastwood against Kaufman's wishes, as the granddaughter of the old settler woman, Laura Lee. Kaufman cast Chief Dan George, who had been nominated for an Academy Award for Supporting Actor in Little Big Man as the old Cherokee Lone Watie. Ĭinematographer Bruce Surtees, James Fargo, and Fritz Manes scouted for locations and eventually found sites in Utah, Arizona, Wyoming, and Oroville, California even before they saw the final script. The characters of Wales, the Cherokee chief, Navajo squaw and the old settler woman and her daughter all appeared in the novel. Kaufman wanted the film to stay as close to the novel as possible and retained many of the mannerisms in Wales's character which Eastwood would display on screen, such as his distinctive lingo with words like "reckon", "hoss" (instead of "horse") and "ye" (instead of "you") and spitting tobacco juice on animals and victims. Michael Cimino and Philip Kaufman later oversaw the writing of the script, aiding Chernus. 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. The Outlaw Josey Wales was inspired by a 1972 novel by Forrest Carter, originally titled The Rebel Outlaw: Josey Wales and later retitled Gone to Texas. Pahreah site in Utah, filming location of the film.

Richard Farnsworth as one of the Comancheros.

Seeing the blood dripping on Wales's boot, Fletcher says that he will give Wales the first move, because he "owes him that." Wales rides off. Fletcher pretends he does not recognize Wales, and says that he will go to Mexico and look for Wales himself. The Rangers accept this story and move on. Wilson," tell the Rangers that Wales was killed in a shoot-out in Monterrey, Mexico. The locals at the bar, who refer to Wales as "Mr. When he catches him, Wales dry fires his pistols through all twenty–four empty chambers before stabbing Terrill with his own cavalry sword.Īt the bar in Santa Rio, a wounded Wales finds Fletcher with two Texas Rangers. Wales, despite being out of ammunition, pursues the fleeing Captain Terrill on horseback. The Redlegs attack but are gunned down by the defenders. In Texas, Wales and his companions are cornered in a ranch house which is fortified to withstand Indian raids. They include an old Cherokee named Lone Watie, a young Navajo woman, and an elderly woman from Kansas and her granddaughter whom Wales rescued from Comancheros. Along the way, despite wishing to be left alone, he accumulates a diverse group of companions. Senator Lane puts a $5,000 bounty on Wales, who is now on the run from Union militia and bounty hunters. Wales intervenes and guns down several Redlegs with a Gatling gun. As a result, he and one young man are the only survivors when Captain Terrill's Redlegs massacre the surrendering men.

At the conclusion of the war, Captain Fletcher persuades the guerrillas to surrender, saying they have been granted amnesty. Wales joins a group of pro- Confederate Missouri Bushwhackers led by William T.

Andrews" cross of the Confederacy Battle Flag, symbolizing his change from the union to the Confederacy. He leans on the cross, crying, bending over the cross to resemble a "St. Lane's Redlegs from Kansas.Īfter he buries his family, he marks their grave with a cross. Josey Wales, a Missouri farmer, is driven to revenge by the murder of his wife and son by a band of pro- Union Jayhawkers- Senator James H.