Clint Eastwood's tenth western and sixteenth directorial effort explores the darker side of the myths of the old west. When retired gunslinger Bill Munny accepts a $500 offer to shoot two men who viciously knifed a prostitute, he discovers just how difficult it is to escape his past as a notorious outlaw.
USA Today, 08/07/1992, p.1D, "...The film is full of sly or amusing touches....Deftly placed emotional moments..." -- 3 1/2 out of 4 stars
New York Times, 08/07/1992, p.C1, "...Time has been good to Clint Eastwood....The cast is splendid..."
Chicago Sun-Times, 12/27/1992, p.3, "...The screenplay by David Webb Peoples has dialogue as spare and evocative as Hemingway..."
Total Film, 03/01/2004, p.9, "Eastwood's a true icon..."
Uncut, 02/01/2003, p.106, "[An] intense, complex meditation on the corrupting nature of violence."
Entertainment Weekly, 08/14/1993, p.36-7, "...Engaging....Enjoy it for the handsome wide-screen vistas, the interplay of the actors, the classical sweep of its story line..."
Title Note
Filmed in Brooks, Drumheller, Stettler, and Longview, Alberta, Canada, and Sonora California. Shot in Panavision using Technicolor.
Eastwood dedicated UNFORGIVEN "to Sergio [Leone] and Don [Siegel]," two directors who served as his most important mentors.
Released theatrically in the USA August 7, 1992.
Named to the "Top Ten" lists of 243 film critics.
Available to buy in the UK (widescreen version).
Clint Eastwood was awarded the Irving Thalberg Memorial Award at the March 27, 1995, Academy Award Ceremonies. It was presented to him by Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Product Quotation/Excerpt
"I ain't like that no more."--Bill Munny (Clint Eastwood)
Release Note
DVD Features:
Region 1 Snap Case Widescreen Anamorphic - 2.35 Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround - English Dolby Digital Surround - French Additional Release Material: Interactive Features: Interactive Menus Scene Access Text/Photo Galleries Production Notes
Product Notes
In Clint Eastwood's acclaimed Western, Little Bill Daggett (Gene Hackman), a sadistic, dictatorial sheriff, enforces gun control on a tiny frontier town, doling out his own brand of due process as he sees fit. When he denies justice to the prostitutes of the town brothel, one of whom has been slashed by a client, the women hire Bill Munny (Eastwood), a reformed gunslinger, to gain vengeance. However, Munny must contend with his new moral code in the face of revisiting the life he left behind. Eastwood's directorial masterpiece also stars Morgan Freeman and Richard Harris.
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