Clint Eastwood
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A retired gunslinger takes on one last job to avenge an injustice in the Old West. IMDb provides cast and crew information, user and critic reviews, trivia, goofs, quotes, and more for this Oscar-winning film.
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- Drama, Western
- 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)
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•Lead actor (Clint Eastwood)
•Supporting actor* (Gene Hackman)
•Art direction
•Cinematography
•Directing*
Unforgiven is a 1992 revisionist western film by Clint Eastwood, who also starred as a former outlaw seeking revenge. The film won four Oscars, including best picture and best director, and explored the violence and mythology of the genre.
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Find out who starred in and worked behind the scenes of the classic western film Unforgiven, directed by and starring Clint Eastwood. See the full list of actors, writers, producers, composers, cinematographers, editors, and more.
After escaping death by the skin of her teeth, the horribly disfigured prostitute, Delilah Fitzgerald, and her appalled and equally furious co-workers summon up the courage to seek retribution in 1880s Wyoming's dangerous town of Big Whiskey. With a hefty bounty on the perpetrators' heads, triggered by the tough Sheriff "Little Bill" Daggett's ...
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