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Unforgiven

Name: Unforgiven
Director: Clint Eastwood
Genre: Western, Drama
Released: 1992
Duration: 2 h 5 min
Cast: Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, Richard Harris, Jaimz Woolvett

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Western
Drama

1992
Clint Eastwood
125 mins
15

Summary

Western directed by and starring Clint Eastwood, and also starring Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman and Richard Harris. Following the death of his wife from smallpox and the failure of his farm, former gunfighter William Munny is tempted back to his old ways by the bounty offered for killing the cowboys who badly scarred a prostitute.

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A star rating of 5 out of 5.

David Parkinson

Winner of four Oscars, including best picture and director, this is, quite simply, one of the finest films ever made in the genre. Exploring the harsh realities of frontier life, Clint Eastwood depicts the west as an unforgiving place where tragedy strikes every time somebody draws a gun. It's clear from the fevered manner in which Saul Rubinek's dime novelist character gathers his Wild West stories from the last eyewitnesses that an era is about to pass into legend. Screenwriter David Webb Peoples reinforces this shift in attitudes through the film's understated feminism and its assertion that what once passed for law and order often had little to do with justice. Eastwood's own world-weary performance as William Munny, a retired gunslinger forced to strap on the six-shooters one last time to feed his children, is exemplary, cleverly drawing on our familiarity with his "Man with No Name" persona to convey the magnitude of the disgust that he now feels at the prospect of killing. The support playing of Morgan Freeman as his former partner, Richard Harris as vain killer English Bob and Oscar-winning Gene Hackman as the vicious Sheriff Daggett is unsurpassable. It's easy to see why Eastwood dedicated the film to Sergio Leone and Don Siegel - this is both a testament and a riposte to his work with them. Gone is the efficient, detached bloodletting of Leone's Dollars trilogy and Siegel's Dirty Harry and in its place comes the greater emphasis on character and cause and effect that ranks Eastwood alongside his two mentors, at the same time redefining the genre. You won't forgive yourself if you miss it.

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rolenameWilliam MunnyClint EastwoodSheriff "Little Bill" DaggettGene HackmanNed LoganMorgan FreemanEnglish BobRichard Harris"Schofield Kid"Jaimz WoolvettWW BeauchampSaul RubinekStrawberry AliceFrances FisherDelilah FitzgeraldAnna LevineQuick MikeDavid MucciDavey BuntingRob CampbellSkinny DuboisAnthony JamesLittle SueTara Dawn FrederickSilkyBeverley Elliott