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Unforgiven: Directed by Clint Eastwood. With Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, Richard Harris. Retired Old West gunslinger Will Munny reluctantly takes on one last job to avenge an injustice with the help of his old partner and a newer outlaw known simply as The Schofield Kid.
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- Clint Eastwood
- 1992-08-07
Unforgiven is a 1992 American Western film directed by and starring Clint Eastwood as an aging outlaw. The film won four Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, and was selected for preservation by the Library of Congress.
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Unforgiven, American revisionist western film, released in 1992, that was directed by and starred Clint Eastwood. It won four Academy Awards as well as both critical and popular praise for its uncompromising approach to the mythology and pathology of the genre in a brutal story that laid bare the emptiness of a life dedicated to violence.
Unforgiven takes place in 1880 and 1881, near the end of the period of the Old West. William Munny (Eastwood) is a former outlaw and gunslinger who has given up that life under the influence of his late wife and has become a hog farmer and father to two children. After a young, myopic would-be gunslinger, the self-proclaimed Schofield Kid (Jaimz Woolvett) arrives to suggest that he and Munny partner up to collect the bounty on the heads of two cowboys who have mutilated the face of a prostitute in the Wyoming town of Big Whiskey, Munny rides out to pick up his old partner, Ned Logan (Morgan Freeman) and join the Schofield Kid on his quest. Meanwhile, another outlaw, English Bob (Richard Harris), arrives in Big Whiskey with his biographer, W.W. Beauchamp (Saul Rubinek) in tow, intent on winning the bounty himself. The town’s sheriff, Little Bill Daggett (Gene Hackman), disarms and viciously beats English Bob and then runs him out of town (leaving Beauchamp behind). Munny, Logan, and the Kid arrive in Big Whiskey shortly thereafter, and Munny is also beaten by Daggett. He is cared for by the prostitutes who are offering the bounty, and once he has recovered, the three men head out to find the offending cowboys. After they have dispatched one of them, Logan loses his stomach for killing and decides to return home. As Munny and the Kid corner and kill the second cowboy, Logan is captured by Daggett’s deputies and taken back to Big Whiskey, where Daggett proceeds to beat him to death; his corpse is displayed in front of the tavern and brothel. Munny then returns to Big Whiskey for revenge. In a climactic gun battle, Munny kills the unarmed tavern owner and five deputies and then savagely murders Daggett.
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•Studios: Warner Bros. and Malpaso Productions
•Director: Clint Eastwood
•Writer: David Webb Peoples
•Music: Lennie Niehaus
•Clint Eastwood (William Munny)
•Jaimz Woolvett (the Schofield Kid)
•Morgan Freeman (Ned Logan)
•Gene Hackman (Little Bill Daggett)
•Richard Harris (English Bob)
•Saul Rubinek (W.W. Beauchamp)
•Picture*
•Lead actor (Clint Eastwood)
•Supporting actor* (Gene Hackman)
•Art direction
•Cinematography
•Directing*
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A retired gunslinger (Clint Eastwood) takes on one last job to avenge a prostitute's disfigurement in Wyoming. He is joined by his old partner (Morgan Freeman) and a young outlaw (Jaimz Woolvett), but faces a dilemma of heroism and villainy.
When prostitute Delilah Fitzgerald (Anna Thomson) is disfigured by a pair of cowboys in Big Whiskey, Wyoming, her fellow brothel workers post a...
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Retired Old West gunslinger William Munny reluctantly takes on one last job, with the help of his old partner and a young man.
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Jul 21, 2002 · A classic film that reflects the passing of the old West and the violent men who lived in it. Eastwood plays William Munny, a former outlaw who joins a bounty hunt for a reward, but faces a corrupt sheriff and his own past.
