Product Notes
Unforgiven is a modern classic that 'summarizes everything I feel about the Western,' director/star Clint Eastwood told the Los Angeles Times. This American Film Institute Top-100 American Movies selection rode off with four 1992 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Director, Supporting Actor (Gene Hackman) and Editing (Joel Cox). Eastwood and Morgan Freeman play retired outlaws who pick up their guns one last time to collect a bounty. Richard Harris is an ill-fated killer-for-hire. And Hackman is a lawman of sly charm - and chilling brutality. Unforgiven is 'a Western for the ages' (Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times).
Product Reviews
Dedicated to his mentors Sergio Leone and Don Siegel, Clint Eastwood's 1992 Oscar-winner examines the mythic violence of the Western, taking on the ghosts of his own star past. Disgusted by Sheriff "Little Bill" Daggett's decree that several ponies make up for a cowhand's slashing a whore's face, Big Whiskey prostitutes, led by fierce Strawberry Alice (Frances Fisher), take justice into their own hands and put a $1000 bounty on the lives of the perpetrators. Notorious outlaw-turned-hog farmer William Munny (Eastwood) is sought out by neophyte gunslinger the Schofield Kid (Jaimz Woolvett) to go with him to Big Whiskey and collect the bounty. While Munny insists, "I ain't like that no more," he needs the bounty money for his children, and the two men convince Munny's clean-living comrade Ned Logan (Morgan Freeman) to join them in righting a wrong done to a woman. Little Bill (Oscar-winner Gene Hackman), however, has no intention of letting any bounty hunters impinge on his iron-clad authority. When pompous gunman English Bob (Richard Harris) arrives in Big Whiskey with pulp biographer W.W. Beauchamp (Saul Rubinek) in tow, Little Bill beats Bob senseless and promises to tell Beauchamp the real story about violent frontier life and justice. But when Munny, the true unwritten legend, comes to town, everyone soon learns a harsh lesson about the price of vindictive bloodshed and the malleability of ideas like "justice." "I don't deserve this," pleads Little Bill. "Deserve's got nothin' to do with it," growls Munny, simultaneously summing up the insanity of western violence and the legacy of Eastwood's Man With No Name. ~ Lucia Bozzola, Rovi
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21 February 2012 |
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WARNER STUDIOS ( WRNS ) |
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131 |
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A: Americas, E Asia |
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2.40:1 |
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French, Spanish |
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Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital Stereo, English, French, Spanish |
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Discs:1 ~ Format:Blu-Ray ~ Region:A |
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Eng Fre Spa |
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Aline Levasseur(Penny Munny), Anna Levine(Delilah Fitzgerald), Anthony James(Skinny Dubois), Ben Cardinal(Johnny Foley), Beverley Elliott(Silky), Chad Dowdell(Curious Townsperson (uncredited)), Clint Eastwood(Bill Munny), David Mucci(Quick Mike), Frances Fisher(Strawberry Alice), Frank C. Turner(Fuzzy), Gene Hackman(Sheriff "Little Bill" Daggett), George Orrison(The Shadow), Greg Goossen(Fighter), Henry Kope(German Joe Schultz), Jaimz Woolvett(The "Schofield Kid"), Jefferson Mappin(Fatty Rossiter), Jeremy Ratchford(Deputy Andy Russell), John Pyper-Ferguson(Charley Hecker), Josie Smith(Crow Creek Kate), Larry Joshua(Bucky), Liisa Repo-Martell(Faith), Lochlyn Munro(Texas Slim), Michael Maurer(Train Person #3), Mina E. Mina(Muddy Chandler), Morgan Freeman(Ned Logan), Philip Hayes(Lippy MacGregor), Phyllis Huffman, Richard Harris(English Bob), Rob Campbell(Davey Bunting), Robert Koons(Crocker), Ron White(Clyde Ledbetter), Saul Rubinek(W.W. Beauchamp), Shane Meier(Will Munny), Stuart Aikins, Tara Dawn Frederick(Little Sue), Walter Marsh(Barber) |
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Art Director:Adrian H. Gorton, Art Director:Richard Roberts, Casting:Phyllis Huffman, Cinematographer:Jack N. Green, Composer (Music Score):Lennie Niehaus, Director:Clint Eastwood, Executive Producer:David Peoples, Executive Producer:David Valdes, Producer:Clint Eastwood, Screenwriter:David Peoples |
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