Unforgiven

Released: August 3, 1992

Studio: Warner Bros.

Genre: drama/western

Box Office (numbers in millions):

Domestic: 101.16 Worldwide: ?

Adjusted for Inflation:

Domestic: 205.50 Worldwide: ?

Directing: Clint Eastwood

Screenwriting: David Webb Peoples

Starring: Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, Jaimz Woolvett

Review:

This was actor and director Clint Eastwood’s “magnificent Western masterpiece,” ^FS finding him “returning to the very genre that made him famous.” ^MSN It took him “a career to make [but it] was well worth the wait.” ^RS

Eastwood was “able to contemporize the genre” ^MSN with this “revisionist western” ^RS “noted for challenging the morality of Western stereotypes created by American film.” ^A07 The movie “deals with the psychological impact of killing.” ^MSN

Eastwood plays “a retired, poor, notorious ex-bounty hunter William Munny.” ^FS The “formerly notorious gunslinger” ^A07 is now a hog farmer, but is “forced to return to his murderous ways after his wife dies and his family needs money.” ^A07

“In the 1880s frontier town of Big Whiskey, Wyoming, a prostitute’s face has been brutally slashed by vicious cowboys, and her fellow co-workers have raised a $500 bounty. Joined by former sidekick partner Ned Logan (Freeman) and aspiring, cocky gunfighter ‘The Schofield Kid’ (Woolvett), they journey to the town to confront the corrupt, sadistic and autocratic Sheriff "Little Bill" Daggett (Hackman), who has denied justice to the brothel’s women. In a deadly and bloody showdown, Munny’s nihilistic past is graphically brought back.” ^FS