From this Saturday at 12am Eastern, that’s 6pm Saturday in NZ, 4pm in Sydney and 5am in the UK, and repeated every four hours throughout the day, it’s the described movies The Outlaw Josey Wales from 1976 and A Man Called Horse from 1970.
The Outlaw Josey Wales is a 1976 American Revisionist Western film set during and after the American Civil War.
It was directed by and starred Clint Eastwood (as the eponymous Josey Wales), with Chief Dan George, Sondra Locke, Sam Bottoms, and Geraldine Keams.
The film tells the story of Josey Wales, a Missouri farmer whose family is murdered by Union militants during the Civil War.
Driven to revenge, Wales joins a Confederate guerrilla band and makes a name for himself as a feared gunfighter.
After the war, all the fighters in Wales' group except for him surrender to Union officers, but they end up being massacred.
Wales becomes an outlaw and is pursued by bounty hunters and Union soldiers as he tries to make a new life for himself.
The film was adapted by Sonia Chernus and Philip Kaufman from author Asa Earl "Forrest" Carter's 1972 novel The Rebel Outlaw: Josey Wales (republished, as shown in the movie's opening credits, as Gone to Texas).
The film was a commercial success, earning $31.8 million against a $3.7 million budget.
In 1996, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry of the Library of Congress for being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
Josey Wales was portrayed by Michael Parks in the film's 1986 sequel, The Return of Josey Wales.
His wife Laura Lee was played by Mary Ann Averett in the sequel.
Directed by: Clint Eastwood.
Screenplay by: Phil Kaufman and Sonia Chernus.
Based on: Gone to Texas: by : Forrest Carter.
Produced by: Robert Daley.
Starring: Clint Eastwood , Chief Dan George, Sondra Locke, Bill McKinney and John Vernon.
Cinematography: Bruce Surtees.
Edited by: Ferris Webster.
Music by: Jerry Fielding.
Production company: The Malpaso Company.
Distributed by: Warner Bros.
Release date: 30 June 1976.
File Length: 129 minutes.
Country: United States.
Language: English.
Budget: $3.7 million.
Box office: $31,800,000.
A Man Called Horse is a 1970 Western film directed by Elliot Silverstein, produced by Sandy Howard, and written by Jack DeWitt.
It is based on the short story "A Man Called Horse" by the Western writer Dorothy M. Johnson, first published in 1950 in Collier's magazine and again in 1968 in Johnson's book Indian Country.
The basic story was used in a 1958 episode of the television series Wagon Train, titled " A Man Called Horse".
The film stars Richard Harris as the titular character, alongside Judith Anderson, Jean Gascon, Manu Tupou, Corinna Tsopei, Dub Taylor, and James Gammon.
Partially spoken in Sioux, the film tells the story of an English aristocrat who is captured by the Sioux people.
The film was a Mexican-American co-production filmed on location in Arizona and the Mexican states of Durango and Sonora.
It received generally positive critical reviews, and was a financial success, spawning two sequels; The Return of a Man Called Horse (1976) and Triumphs of a Man Called Horse (1983).
Directed by: Elliot Silverstein.
Written by: Jack DeWitt.
Based on: "A Man Called Horse": by : Dorothy M. Johnson.
Produced by: Sandy Howard.
Starring: Richard Harris, Judith Anderson, Jean Gascon, Manu Tupou, Corinna Tsopei, Dub Taylor and James Gammon.
Cinematography: Robert B. Hauser.
Edited by: Philip W. Anderson and Gene Fowler Jr.
Music by: Leonard Rosenman.
Production companies: Cinema Center Films and Sandy Howard Productions.
Distributed by: National General Pictures (US) and Estudios Churubusco (Mexico).
Release date: 28 April 1970
File Length: 108 minutes.
Countries: United States and Mexico.
Languages: English and Sioux.
Budget: $5 million.
Box office: $6 million (US/ Canada rentals) and $44 million (world wide by 1976).
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