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The Return of Josey Wales
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Wikipedia article
'The Return of Josey Wales' is a 1986 American Western film directed by and starring Michael Parks[https://web.archive.org/web/20151209173905/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/41066/The-Return-of-Josey-Wales/overview The New York Times][http://www.tvguide.com/movies/the-return-of-josey-wales/115801/ TV Guide] 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.
The Eastwood film had been based on the author's 1973 novel 'The Rebel Outlaw: Josey Wales'.[https://www.nytimes.com/1997/12/17/movies/movie-with-a-murky-background-the-man-who-wrote-the-book.html The New York Times]
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.
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
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