ABSTRACT
Much has been written over the years about Clint Eastwood as an actor, director, and producer, but remarkably little has been written about The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976). Most of what has been written has been in the context of larger works that deal with Eastwood’s career as a whole. Although Josey Wales is a much loved mainstay on cable television, it has been unjustly ignored by main-stream and academic critics alike. Regardless of their feelings toward the film, what virtually every critic has failed to recognize is its undeniable relationship to John Ford’s The Searchers (1956).
