Unforgiven

Director: Clint Eastwood

Overview

Dedicated to his mentors Sergio Leone and Don Siegel, Clint Eastwood's 1992 Oscar winner examines the mythic violence of the Western, taking on the ghosts of his own star past. Disgusted by Sheriff "Little Bill" Daggett's decree that several ponies make up for a cowhand slashing a whore's face, Big Whiskey prostitutes, led by fierce Strawberry Alice (Frances Fisher), take justice into their own hands and put a 1000-dollar bounty on the lives of the perpetrators. Notorious outlaw-turned-hog farmer William Munny (Eastwood) is sought out by neophyte gunslinger the Schofield Kid (Jaimz Woolvett) to go with him to Big Whiskey and collect the bounty. While Munny insists, "I ain't like that no more," he needs the bounty money for his children, and the two men convince Munny's clean-living comrade Ned Logan (Morgan Freeman) to join them in righting a wrong done to a woman. Little Bill (Oscar winner Gene Hackman), however, has no intention of letting any bounty hunters impinge on his iron-clad authority. When pompous gunman English Bob (Richard Harris) arrives in Big Whiskey with pulp biographer W.W. Beauchamp (Saul Rubinek) in tow, Little Bill beats Bob senseless and promises to tell Beauchamp the real story about frontier life and justice. But when Munny, the true unwritten legend, comes to town, everyone soon learns a harsh lesson about the price of vindictive bloodshed and the malleability of ideas like "justice." "I don't deserve this," pleads Little Bill. "Deserve's got nothin' to do with it," growls Munny, simultaneously summing up the insanity of Western violence and the legacy of Eastwood's the Man With No Name.

Product Details

Release Date:	06/01/2010
UPC:	0883929126170
Original Release:	1992
Rating:	R
Source:	Warner Home Video
Region Code:	1
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Surround, Dolby Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	2:11:00
Sales rank:	1,570

Special Features

Closed Caption; Commentary by historian/Eastwood biographer Richard Schickel; Theatrical trailer

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Clint Eastwood	William Munny
Gene Hackman	Ma?y Bill Daggett
Morgan Freeman	Ned Logan
Richard Harris	Anglik Bob
Saul Rubinek	W. W. Beauchamp
Frances Fisher	"Ruda" Alice
David Mucci	"Szybki Mike"
Rob Campbell	Davey Bunting
Anthony James	"Chudy" Dubois
Tara Dawn Frederick	Ma?a Sue,Little Sue
Beverley Elliott	"G?adka"
Stuart Aikins	Actor
Liisa Repo-Martell	Faith
Phyllis Huffman	Actor
Anna Thompson	Actor
Jaimz Woolvett	Actor
Josie Smith	Actor
Shane Meier	Will Munny
Aline Levasseur	Penny Munny
Jefferson Mappin	Actor
Henry Kope	Actor
Robert Koons	Actor
Ben Cardinal	Johnny Foley
Philip Hayes	Lippy MacGregor,Lippy MacGregor
Larry Joshua	Bucky
Frank C. Turner	Fuzzy
Anna Levine	Delilah Fitzgerald
Ron White	Clyde Ledbetter
Lennie Niehaus	Composer
George Orrison	The Shadow
Greg Goossen	Fighter
Chad Dowdell	Curious Townsperson (uncredited)
Mina E. Mina	Muddy Chandler
Jeremy Ratchford	Deputy Andy Russell
John Pyper-Ferguson	Charley Hecker
Walter Marsh	Barber
Larry Reese	Tom Luckinbill
Blair Haynes	Paddy McGee
Lochlyn Munro	Texas Slim
Michael Charrois	Wiggens
Michael Maurer	Train Person #3

Technical Credits

David Peoples

David Peoples	Screenwriter,Screenwriter
David Valdes	Executive Producer,Producer
Clint Eastwood	Producer
Phyllis Huffman	Casting
John Frazier	Special Effects
Rob Young	Sound Mixer
Rick Alexander	Sound Effects
Les Fresholtz	Sound Effects
Julian Ludwig	Producer

Scene Index

Disc #1 -- Unforgiven
1. Foreword [1:11]
2. Big Whiskey Disturbance [2:42]
3. "No Fuss" Fine [3:06]
4. "We Ain't Horses" [1:16]
5. Schofield Kid [5:52]
6. Payment Day [2:43]
7. Out of Practice [7:23]
8. Done Stuff for Money [4:33]
9. Just a Fella Now [2:49]
10. Majesty of Royalty [2:52]
11. No Firearms Allowed [4:18]
12. Welcoming English Bob [7:30]
13. Not-so-Straight Shooter [7:19]
14. Duke of Death [4:20]
15. Killers' Campfire [2:19]
16. Object Lesson [6:23]
17. Farewell to Savages [2:47]
18. Vision of the Dead [4:12]
19. Big Whiskey Hospitality [7:10]
20. Angel of Death [3:46]
21. "We Both Got Scars" [4:51]
22. Water for a Dying Man [4:48]
23. Ned's Decision [1:43]
24. "He Had It Coming" [4:59]
25. Interrogating Ned [2:02]
26. Assassins Strike [2:36]
27. A Hel of a Thing [3:28]
28. Will's Only Friend [3:55]
29. On Display [1:19]
30. Here to Kill You [3:47]
31. "Deserves Got Nothin' to Do With It" [3:51]
32. Killer's Threat [2:19]
33. Epilogue and End Credits [6:09]

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Editorial Reviews

Appearing two years after Kevin Costner's Oscar-winning megahit Dances With Wolves, Unforgiven helped spur a mini-revival of the moribund genre in the 1990s that included Posse (1993), Tombstone (1993), and Sharon Stone's "Man With No Name" turn in The Quick and the Dead (1995). Written by David Webb Peoples in 1976, the script was bought by Clint Eastwood in the early '80s, though he waited until he was old enough to play psychotic antihero William Munny as a grizzled veteran of a bloody past, rather than someone closer to the younger Eastwood of Sergio Leone's "Dollars" trilogy and Don Siegel's Dirty Harry (1971). Upon its release in August 1992, seven years after Eastwood's previous western Pale Rider, Unforgiven was praised as an uncompromising revisionist masterpiece, showcasing Eastwood's visual command of western landscapes and locations and his perceptive yet critical view of the genre's mythology and his own place in its "machinery of violence." After deliberately pacing the reemergence of Munny's pathology, Eastwood shrouds the climactic shoot-out in cinematographer Jack N. Green's dark shadows and heavy rainfall reminiscent of film noir, rendering Munny's return to Eastwood's lethal star form unsettling in its victory. Unforgiven became an unexpected serious hit in a season of popcorn movies, eventually grossing over $100 million and reviving Eastwood's star standing after a series of late '80s flops. After winning several critics' prizes, it became one of only a handful of westerns to win the Best Picture Oscar; Eastwood's status behind the camera was finally acknowledged with a Best Director statuette.