The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976) review

Southern farmer Josey Wales (Eastwood) has his wife and son murdered and his house burned down by Union-affiliated mercenaries, so he partners up with other Confederates to fight back, most of them try to surrender (and are ambushed as a result), Wales goes on the run evading Captain Terrill (Bill McKinney) and multiple bounty hunters and then he meets several oddballs, including loyal Jamie (Sam Bottoms), older Cherokee Lone Watie (Chief Dan George) and quirky Laura Lee Turner (Sondra Locke).  Considering Eastwood was a registered Republican at the time he produced this (he's currently a Libertarian), the material seems to personally fit him (showing the Civil War from the perspective of the "losing side"), except the source novel was written by Asa Earl Carter (using the pseudonym "Forrest Carter" and claiming to be part Native American), a white supremacist and member of the KKK, which is clearly problematic.  Clint plays the typical strong-and-silent type (with a penchant for spitting tobacco juice everywhere) he's known for, but his character, despite having a "code" (he has to repeatedly stop women from being raped), is solely defined by his desire for revenge and the movie, in its own words, moves like molasses in the Winter.  There's an entry on the IMDb trivia page that claims music mogul David Geffen, when he was an executive at Warner Bros., suggested to Mr. Eastwood that he needed to trim it a half hour: Geffen was correct in his criticism, but he didn't get his way.