The Outlaw Josey Wales

Opening sequence finds star and director Clint Eastwood a mild-mannered Missouri farmer in the fields with his son, about to be given cause for vengeance in The Outlaw Josey Wales, 1976.

After escaping a slaughter by lawless Union troops in post-Civil War Missouri, a textbook horseback conversation from director and title character Clint Eastwood, with Sam Bottoms as his frightened protegè Jamie, preceding their horse-tackling stunt to avoid capture, in The Outlaw Josey Wales, 1976.

Dave Karger introduces The Outlaw Josey Wales, 1976.

Title character and director Clint Eastwood has just seen his family killed and farm burned by Yankee bandits in Missouri, so he joins up with Confederate stragglers, led by John Russell, cueing the credit sequence, in The Outlaw Josey Wales, 1976.

Jamie (Sam Bottoms), alone among surrendering Missouri post-Civil War rebels, senses a trap, nasty Senator Lane (Frank Schofield) and turncoat Fletcher (John Vernon) behind it, and director and title character Clint Eastwood turning the tables, big-ly, in The Outlaw Josey Wales, 1976.

Peaceful farmer Clint Eastwood becomes The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976) after soldiers murder his family.