Unforgiven 1992

Unforgiven 1992 Search Unforgiven Article Talk LanguageDownload PDFWatchEdit This article is about the 1992 film For the 1960 western see The Unforgiven 1960 film For the 2013 Japanese remake see Unforgiven 2013 film For other uses see Unforgiven disambiguation William Munny redirects here For the Preacher antagonist named after the Unforgiven protagonist in its television adaptation see Saint of Killers Unforgiven is a 1992 American Western film starring directed and produced by Clint Eastwood and written by David Webb Peoples The film tells the story of William Munny an aging outlaw and killer who takes on one more job years after he had turned to farming The film co-stars Gene Hackman Morgan Freeman and Richard Harris Unforgiven Theatrical release poster by Bill Gold Directed byClint EastwoodWritten byDavid Webb PeoplesProduced byClint EastwoodStarring Clint EastwoodGene HackmanMorgan FreemanRichard Harris CinematographyJack N GreenEdited byJoel CoxMusic byLennie Niehaus Production company Malpaso Productions Distributed byWarner Bros Release dates August 3 1992 Mann Bruin Theater August 7 1992 United States Running time 131 minutes 1 CountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglishBudget 14 4 million 2 Box office 159 2 million 2 Unforgiven grossed over 159 million on a budget of 14 4 million and received widespread critical acclaim with praise for the acting particularly from Eastwood and Hackman directing editing themes and cinematography The film won four Academy Awards Best Picture and Best Director for Eastwood Best Supporting Actor for Hackman and Best Film Editing for Joel Cox Eastwood was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance but he lost to Al Pacino for Scent of a Woman 3 The film was the third Western to win Best Picture 4 following Cimarron 1931 and Dances with Wolves 1990 Eastwood dedicated the film to directors and mentors Sergio Leone and Don Siegel In 2004 Unforgiven was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being deemed culturally historically or aesthetically significant 5 The film was remade into a 2013 Japanese film also titled Unforgiven which stars Ken Watanabe and changes the setting to the early Meiji era in Japan Eastwood has long asserted that the film would be his last traditional Western concerned that any future projects would simply rehash previous plotlines or imitate someone else s work 6 PlotEdit In 1880 in Big Whiskey Wyoming a cowboy—Quick Mike—slashes prostitute Delilah Fitzgerald s face with a knife permanently disfiguring her after she laughs at his small penis As punishment sheriff Little Bill Daggett orders Mike and his associate who was with him at the brothel Davey Bunting to turn over several of their horses to her employer Skinny DuBois for his loss of revenue Outraged the prostitutes offer a 1 000 bounty for the cowboys deaths In Hodgeman County Kansas a boastful young man visits Will Munny s hog farm He calls himself the Schofield Kid and claims to be an experienced bounty hunter looking for help pursuing the cowboys Formerly a notorious outlaw and murderer Will is now a repentant widower raising two children After initially refusing to help Will realizes that his farm is failing and that his children s future is in jeopardy He recruits his friend Ned Logan another retired outlaw and they catch up with the Kid who they discover is severely near-sighted Back in Big Whiskey British-born gunfighter English Bob an old acquaintance and rival of Little Bill seeks the bounty He arrives in town with his biographer W W Beauchamp who naively believes Bob s tall tales Enforcing the town s anti-gun law Little Bill and his deputies disarm Bob and the Sheriff beats him savagely to discourage others from attempting to claim the bounty Little Bill humiliates Bob and banishes him from town the next morning but Beauchamp stays out of a fascination with the Sheriff who debunks many of the romantic notions Beauchamp has about the Wild West Little Bill explains to Beauchamp that the best attribute for a gunslinger is to be cool-headed under fire rather than to have the quickest draw and to always kill the best shooter first Will Ned and the Kid arrive in town during a rainstorm and head to Skinny s saloon While Ned and the Kid meet with the prostitutes upstairs Little Bill confronts a feverish Will Not realizing Will s identity but correctly guessing that he wants the bounty Bill confiscates his pistol and beats him Ned and the Kid escape through a back window and take Will to an unoccupied barn outside of town where they and the prostitutes nurse him back to health A few days later the trio ambush Davey After missing Davey and hitting his horse Ned falters and Will shoots Davey instead Ned decides to quit and sets off back to Kansas Ned is later captured and flogged to death by Little Bill to learn the whereabouts of Will and the Kid Will takes the Kid with him to the cowboys ranch directing him to ambush Quick Mike in the outhouse and shoot him After they escape a distraught Kid drunkenly confesses he had never killed anyone before and is overcome with remorse A prostitute arrives with the reward and tells them about Ned s fate Shocked by the news Will begins drinking and demands the Kid s revolver The Kid hands it over saying that he no longer wants to be a killer and Will sends him back to Kansas to distribute the reward That night Will finds Ned s corpse displayed in a coffin outside Skinny s saloon as a warning to bounty hunters Inside Little Bill and his deputies are organizing a posse Will walks in alone brandishing a shotgun and kills Skinny for displaying Ned s corpse He then takes aim at Little Bill only for the shotgun to misfire In the ensuing gunfight Will shoots Little Bill and four deputies with the revolver He then orders the rest of the posse out Beauchamp lingers briefly to ask how Will survived Will replies that it was luck and scares him away Little Bill tries and fails to take another shot while lying on the floor then bemoans his fate and curses Will who shoots him dead Will shouts threats as he mounts his horse and rides out of town A closing title card states that Will s mother-in-law found his farm abandoned years later Will having possibly moved to San Francisco with the children where he prospered in dry goods and she remained at a loss to understand why her daughter married such a notorious outlaw and murderer CastEdit Clint Eastwood as William MunnyGene Hackman as Sheriff Little Bill DaggettMorgan Freeman as Ned LoganRichard Harris as English BobJaimz Woolvett as The Schofield KidSaul Rubinek as W W BeauchampFrances Fisher as Strawberry AliceAnna Thomson as Delilah FitzgeraldDavid Mucci as Quick MikeRob Campbell as Davey BuntingAnthony James as Skinny DuboisTara Dawn Frederick as Little SueBeverley Elliott as SilkyLiisa Repo-Martell as FaithJosie Smith as Crow Creek KateCherrilene Cardinal as Sally Two TreesShane Meier as William Munny Jr Aline Levasseur as Penny MunnyRon White as Deputy Clyde LedbetterJeremy Ratchford as Deputy Andy RussellJohn Pyper-Ferguson as Deputy Charley HeckerJefferson Mappin as Deputy Fatty RossiterMina E Mina as Muddy ChandlerHenry Kope as German Joe SchultzLarry Joshua as BuckyBen Cardinal as Johnny FoleyFrank C Turner as FuzzyLochlyn Munro as Texas SlimPhilip Hayes as Lippy MacGregor Production