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Unforgiven

  • 19921992
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  • 2h 10m
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Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman, Gene Hackman, and Richard Harris in Unforgiven (1992)
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Retired Old West gunslinger William Munny reluctantly takes on one last job, with the help of his old partner Ned Logan and a young man, The "Schofield Kid."Retired Old West gunslinger William Munny reluctantly takes on one last job, with the help of his old partner Ned Logan and a young man, The "Schofield Kid."Retired Old West gunslinger William Munny reluctantly takes on one last job, with the help of his old partner Ned Logan and a young man, The "Schofield Kid."
IMDb RATING
8.2/10
415K
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POPULARITY
1,033
72
    • Clint Eastwood
    • David Webb Peoples
  • Stars
    • Clint Eastwood
    • Gene Hackman
    • Morgan Freeman
    • Clint Eastwood
    • David Webb Peoples
  • Stars
    • Clint Eastwood
    • Gene Hackman
    • Morgan Freeman
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 694User reviews
    • 145Critic reviews
    • 85Metascore
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  • Top rated movie #140
    • Won 4 Oscars

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    Trailer 2:37
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    Trailer 0:31
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    Gene Hackman, Richard Harris, and Saul Rubinek in Unforgiven (1992)
    Morgan Freeman and Gene Hackman in Unforgiven (1992)
    Clint Eastwood in Unforgiven (1992)
    Clint Eastwood in Unforgiven (1992)
    Clint Eastwood, Aline Levasseur, and Shane Meier in Unforgiven (1992)
    Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman, and Jaimz Woolvett in Unforgiven (1992)
    Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman, Gene Hackman, and Richard Harris in Unforgiven (1992)
    Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman, Gene Hackman, and Richard Harris in Unforgiven (1992)
    Clint Eastwood in Unforgiven (1992)
    Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman, Gene Hackman, and Richard Harris in Unforgiven (1992)
    Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman, Gene Hackman, and Richard Harris in Unforgiven (1992)
    Clint Eastwood and Morgan Freeman in Unforgiven (1992)

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    Clint Eastwood
    Clint Eastwood
    • Bill Munny
    Gene Hackman
    Gene Hackman
    • Little Bill Daggett
    Morgan Freeman
    Morgan Freeman
    • Ned Logan
    Richard Harris
    Richard Harris
    • English Bob
    Jaimz Woolvett
    Jaimz Woolvett
    • The 'Schofield Kid'
    Saul Rubinek
    Saul Rubinek
    • W.W. Beauchamp
    Frances Fisher
    Frances Fisher
    • Strawberry Alice
    Anna Thomson
    Anna Thomson
    • Delilah Fitzgerald
    David Mucci
    David Mucci
    • Quick Mike
    Rob Campbell
    Rob Campbell
    • Davey Bunting
    Anthony James
    Anthony James
    • Skinny Dubois
    Tara Frederick
    • Little Sue
    • (as Tara Dawn Frederick)
    Beverley Elliott
    Beverley Elliott
    • Silky
    Liisa Repo-Martell
    Liisa Repo-Martell
    • Faith
    Josie Smith
    • Crow Creek Kate
    Shane Meier
    Shane Meier
    • Will Munny
    Aline Levasseur
    • Penny Munny
    Cherrilene Cardinal
    Cherrilene Cardinal
    • Sally Two Trees
      • Clint Eastwood
      • David Webb Peoples
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    • Trivia
      The final screen credit reads, "Dedicated to Sergio and Don", referring to Clint Eastwood's mentors, Sergio Leone and Don Siegel.
    • Goofs
      (at around 55 mins) English Bob is in jail and Little Bill is reading from W.W. Beauchamp's novel, but a sheet of script is taped onto the page and clearly visible.
    • Quotes

      Little Bill Daggett: You'd be William Munny out of Missouri. Killer of women and children.

      Will Munny: That's right. I've killed women and children. I've killed just about everything that walks or crawled at one time or another. And I'm here to kill you, Little Bill, for what you did to Ned.

    • Crazy credits
      At the end of the credits, there is caption reading, "Dedicated to Sergio and Don". This is a reference to late directors Sergio Leone (who directed Clint Eastwood in the Dollars trilogy) and Don Siegel (who directed Eastwood in Dirty Harry and Escape from Alcatraz).
    • Connections
      Featured in Clint Eastwood on Westerns (1992)
    • Soundtracks
      Claudia's Song
      (uncredited)

      Written by Clint Eastwood and Lennie Niehaus

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    8/10
    'A Man With No Name' Becomes 'A Man With A Real Story'.
    Clint Eastwood's storytelling gives the western genre one of its most sublime story's. Gone is the trademark mysterious hero and in its place is an ex gunman who made his peace when he met his wife. Eastwood has transcended traditional entertainment to storytelling craftsmanship. He delivers rich characters with deep rooted problems inextricably linked to the villains of the story. Refusing to wither and die away, style has been perfectly adapted with age thus ensuring his maturation into a true Hollywood legend.

    Besides his now distinctive storytelling, there are numerous factors that make this a landmark Western. The ensemble cast could not have been stronger and there were no weak performances. The soundtrack accentuates the intended atmosphere of the director. A single detracting factor I could find only just qualifies as such. Munny's whimsical lines seemed a little contrived at times. They droned on like pale attempts to capture the Western era. But this is a consequence of the fact that they were more to do with the character of William Munny. He is after all a reformed killer with a now passive approach to people. Given this fact and also that it may have been distracting since it was so out of sync with what we are used to seeing from Eastwood, I still have to list it as a demerit on the account it slightly jerked me out of the story.

    Hollywood producers have to satisfy audience preferences if investments are going to accrue profits. It is the nature of the beast. The action and more specifically the Western genre will stick to tried and tested formulas in order to guarantee audience acceptance. But every so often you get people who as a natural consequence of their unique character appeal are able to deliver a story that is outside these understandably restrictive boundaries. Eastwood is a cool individualist who normally plays characters who are not team players and do it their own way. His own way this time is to give the western genre a real story oozing characterization. A sort of ballad for the bad guy.

    The ballads tune provides the story with a sad, introspective mood, within the opening and closing scenes. The opening scene depicts Munny in his new found life. He is cured of his wicked ways, helped by his dear, departed wife. But men are not willing to forgive or forget his monstrous deeds and in the final scenes he is who he has to be. Such is the sorrowful life of William Munny.

    Westerns are typified by clearly defined goodies and baddies, but this is definitely not the case here. Eastwood and Freeman play reformed killers who find circumstances drawing them once again to their evil ways. But the older and wiser men now realize the value of life and come face to face with their troubled consciences. This is unlike their naïve, young partner who is attracted to the bravado image of the killer and relishes taking a man's life. This moral issue is virtually taboo for the classic western which glamorizes the lawlessness and the hero attraction of the gunslinger. This is also why in my view no-one besides Eastwood should have handled this movie.

    Then we have the juiciest character of the movie superbly played by Gene Hackman worthy of the weight of every micro granule of his Oscar. He is the epitome of every hard-line lawman that ever was. The misguidance of the so called righteously empowered, swinging the hammer against evil for good. Hackman must have salivated when he read the script since there was obvious relish in his performance. All the better for the movie, and of course for Eastwood at the Oscars. By far the best performance and the others were good further underlining the talent of the man.

    The antagonist of the movie is almost always the most complex and thus most interesting to analyze. His vain attempts at carpentry are his way of trying to appear to be a good man. There is purity in building ones own home and it is this wholesomeness that he wishes to capture. In that way his fellow citizens will see him as a simple man only wanting to lead a righteous life. But his inability as a carpenter is indicative of his depravity. He cannot be a good man. The source of his drive is anger and hatred. It is through this failing that we realize he cannot escape who he is.

    Indeed it was not only the power of the script that gave the audience a spellbinding climax, but the talents of the actors. The actors' characterizations deliver the audience a spellbinding climax. It is only through Hackman's performance that we not only acknowledge his ending as inevitable, but also as deserving. We saw him as a man who virtually thought that he was righteously empowered to rid the earth of Munny and his kind What he thought was an honorable task was one rather of abuse and suppression. He became the baddie in the eyes of the audience and it is he who the audience wants to see justice served upon.

    Munny was so weak throughout the movie that the eruption of his evil ways captured the interest of the audience. He transformed into the Eastwood of old – the anti hero with a far more malevolent presence. Never could we have sensed this hatred and evil that we now see in William Munny. It is now that the frivolity of his mannerisms that I touched on in the beginning adds to the story as it helps to accentuate the turn in character. He is now only a killer, in it neither for money or fame as the writer nearly finds out to his tragic detriment.

    Those who have only seen his Westerns of old or the 'Dirty Harry' movies may enter the cinema with expectations of such like will either be disappointed or pleasantly surprised. It is the atypical western and an unfamiliar portrayal by Eastwood. But I believe that most people will have the latter reaction. The differences are their strengths helped by the fact that it was a superbly crafted movie with a meaningful story and thought provoking lessons for our heroes and villains. Eastwood was directly suited to the roles that we identify him with, but it is exactly because of this suitability that he eases into the role of Munny. No mellowing with age, no identification with the mainstream, he has always done it his way, and he is so good that any way could be his way.
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      • August 7, 1992 (United States)
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      • Brooks, Alberta, Canada
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      • Malpaso Productions
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