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<i>The Return of Josey Wales</i>

The Return of Josey Wales

1986 film

The Return of Josey Wales is a 1986 American Western film directed by and starring Michael Parks[2][3] It is a sequel to Clint Eastwood's 1976 film The Outlaw Josey Wales and was adapted from The Vengeance Trail of Josey Wales, the 1976 second novel featuring the Josey Wales character, by Asa Earl Carter. The novel was published under Carter's pen name, Forrest Carter, which he used to present a false persona involving a claim of Cherokee ancestry.[4]

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The Eastwood film had been based on the author's 1973 novel The Rebel Outlaw: Josey Wales.[4] Eastwood had planned to adapt The Vengeance Trail of Josey Wales himself as a sequel to his original film, but his project was eventually cancelled.[5]

Synopsis

Friends of veteran gunfighter Josey Wales are killed in Mexico by supporters of the executed Mexican Emperor Maximilian. Another friend, Pablo, rides to the ranch where Josey, thought to be dead by the United States government after events in The Outlaw Josey Wales, lives quietly with his wife Laura Lee, their baby son Jamie, her grandmother, and Lone Wolf and his wife and son. After learning of his friends' deaths, Wales travels to Mexico to confront a corrupt lawman and get another friend out of jail.

Cast

  • Michael Parks as Josey Wales
  • Rafael Campos as Chato
  • Everett Sifuentes as Capt. Jesus Escabedo
  • Suzie Humphreys as Rose
  • John Galt as Kelly
  • Charles McCoy as Charlie
  • Joe Kurtzo as Nacole
  • Paco Vela as Paco
  • Bob Magruder as Tenspot
  • Benita Faulkner as Enloe

References

  1. [1]
    "The Return of Josey Wales Credits". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. 2016. Archived from the original on March 7, 2016.
  2. [2]
    The New York Times
  3. [3]
    TV Guide
  4. [4]
    "Movie With a Murky Background: The Man Who Wrote the Book (Published 1997)". The New York Times. Archived from the original on April 30, 2023.
  5. [5]
    Carter, Forrest (2008). Josey Wales: Two Westerns. University of New Mexico Press. ISBN 9780826311689.
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