The Outlaw Josey Wales

During the rape scene, crew members can be seen through the legs of a bandit.

The use of metallic cartridge conversion revolvers that did not exist until well after the war.

The pistol that Wales retrieved from the ruins of his house was not offered until 1871.

Other conversion guns also pop up throughout the film.

During his showdown with the Comancheros, the sun is behind everyone, no matter which way they're facing.

Towards the end of the film, Josey and Laura Lee exchange jokes about their respective home states.

Laura Lee tells a gag about Missouri being the "show-me" state, a nickname which most people agree only dates back to the 1890s, whereas this film is set in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War, in the 1860s.

When Laura Lee plays the concertina, the sound doesn't match what she's playing.

The hymn "In the Sweet By and By" wasn't published until 1867.

Near the end of the film when Wales is fighting the posse outside the house, you can see the legs of a C-stand when a man from Terrill's gang falls off a horse.

The cart has a square hole that the crew uses to drive the cart instead of Granny and the girl.

It is obviously driving the cart not the women.

It also disappears and reappears.

A Gatling gun holds either 20 or 50 rounds, but Josey fires way more, not to mention the soldiers before him.

When the Redleg leader is shooting at the Gatling gun, he fires 4 shots.

When he runs over to the Gatling gun tent and points his gun in it, you can see all six lead balls sticking out of the front of the cylinder.

Camera shadow on Ten Bear's horse as he rides out of the camp to meet Josey.

Near the end, after the old lady comments about freeloaders from Kansas, a camera shadow is seen when a guy falls off his horse in the last shoot out.

When Josey frees Laura Lee and Granny from Commancheros he cuts the ropes binding their hands and you can see Laura Lee's wrists have rope burns from being pulled along.

A short time later at Blood Butte, Laura Lee tells Josey dreams are like clouds across a sky-blue mind, and her wrists show no burns at all.

In the scene where the two men with rifles have Jose they are using trapdoor Springfield rifles that weren't even made till 1866 a year after the civil war ended.

It is unlikely at that time that anyone but the army had them.

When Josie goes to the cabin of Lone Watie there are black tail deer antlers on the wall.

These deer live on the West Coast, not in the area of Missouri or surrounding area.

The fiddle that provided the music for dancing at the ranch was fitted with a chin-piece, which was not used until the twentieth century.

The Gatling guns shown during the massacre of the surrendering confederates are not Civil War period versions of that weapon.

The Model 1861 Gatling was a.

58 caliber weapon firing from individually loaded brass or steel chambers which were fed into the receiver via a hopper or chute attached to the side of the gun's housing.

As a result, the gun's rate of fire was significantly slower than is shown in in the film.

The guns shown in the movie were models of 1867 or later, which were chambered for fixed ammunition, usually 45/70 and fed through a stick magazine on the top of the weapon's receiver.

At one point in the movie there is a soldier playing a 5 string open-back banjo claw-hammer style in the back-ground.

Shadows through the leather head of the banjo can be seen.

Even though the banjo started to evolve in the late 1840s, the open-back banjo was invented by Arthur Windsor in England after 1887 and "frailing" (claw-hammer style picking) did not become popular until the late 1800s'.

In the scene where Josie has bought supplies, he is recognized and a gunfight ensues.

Josie and Lone Watie kill several Union soldiers.

However, a few moments later, as Josie escapes on horseback, the same Union soldiers he just killed are seen rushing into the street to stare after him.

Laura Lee tells Josey a joke about two men and a mule and quotes the saying "I'm from Missouri, show me".

William VanDiver's speech that coined the phrase wasn't given until 1899, over thirty years after the time the film takes place.

When Fletcher tells Terrill to say which way they're going so that the bounty hunters will hear the wrong information, Terrill looks back over his right shoulder to see the bounty hunters.

But when the troops ride away, as seen from a different angle, the bounty hunters are more to Terrill's left.

When Josey Wales is leaving the interior of the store carrying the supplies, he is also carrying the picture postcard of the dead man that the store clerk showed him.

When he emerges outside, he is no longer carrying the postcard.

When Josey returns from scouting the Union soldiers camp to discover that Jamie has died, Jamie can be seen still blinking when Josey first enters the lean-to.

After Josey see's the Union camp in the rain, on the way back into the tent Jamie blinks however a few seconds later he is dead with his eyes wide open.

After Josey shoots the two men in the cabin/store where he goes to get a horse, he spits tobacco juice on one man's head and the dead man's eyes squint in reaction.

However, as Josey steps by the body on the way out, the 'dead body' rotates his head away from camera, indicating that he wasn't quite dead yet.

This is a contender for the title of Clint Eastwood's best western, possibly even his best film. I'd seen it on television in "pan and scan" format and enjoyed it but it really needs to see watching in wide-screen to fully appreciate the film.

Disclaimer: If you are a viewer that mainly prefers art-house-type movies, then you might as well ignore this review. In addition, if you're not able to take a Clint Eastwood's best classic western masterpiece film with a ton of great one liners , ignore this review, as well.

I know, many people will say this is The greatest Western. No, it ain't.

Clint Eastwood directs and stars in this interesting story of Missouri farmer Josey Wales, who has his family killed by Northern soldiers in the American Civil War, and then grieved and enraged, joins a confederate guerrilla unit, only to have to surrender when their side loses the war. However, despite the surrender, the unit is massacred, though Josey escapes, and not only becomes a wanted man, but something of a legend, as he finds himself the leader of an ever growing group of castoffs and refugees.

Quite possibly my favorite Eastwood Western. In adding depth to the main character of Josey Wales (which also tends to permeate the rest of the film), there's just ...

Missouri farmer Josey Wales (Clint Eastwood) joins a Confederate guerrilla unit after his family was murdered. When the war ends, the irregulars who murdered his family become official Union soldiers overseeing confederate surrenders.

What can we say about this? It's Clint as Clint lol.

"The Outlaw Josey Wales" would be a classic western if not for one fatal flaw: it drags a little in the middle part, and goes on a bit too long.With editing, it would be a small masterpiece.

This western is a timeless classic -- generation can relate to -- and learn -- from this movie.I'm not much on cinematic-this or musical-score that ...