Unforgiven
Drama, Western
Warner Bros.  (1992) 131 mins R

8.3 (74,091 votes) Top 250: #112
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)....

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Cast and Crew
Clint Eastwood  ......  William 'Bill' Munny
Gene Hackman  ......  Little Bill Daggett
Morgan Freeman  ......  Ned Logan
Richard Harris  ......  English Bob
Saul Rubinek  ......  W.W. Beauchamp
Lochlyn Munro  ...... 
Director  .....  Clint Eastwood
Producer  .....  Clint Eastwood; Julian Ludwig
Writer  .....  David Webb Peoples
Notes
Goofs:
Audio/visual unsynchronized: In the bar room shootout scene, many pistol shots are fired. The foley sound is correct. When Munny fires the rifle to kill Little Bill, the foley sound adds the classic "rifle shot" sound, with obvious echoes. In the enclosed barroom, there would be no echoes of the shot, just a loud bang. (more)

Trivia:
Deputy Clyde's line about why a one armed man needed to carry three pistols: 'I don't want to get killed from lack of being able to shoot back' is sometimes attributed to lawman/gunfighter Wild Bill Hickok who usually carried two pistols around his waist, another in a shoulder holster, sometimes another stuck in the back of his belt, and usually had at least one Derringer hidden somewhere on his person. While working as a lawman, he usually carried a sawed off shotgun as well. Hickok also laughed at Ned Buntline's report about his killing 20 men with 20 shots saying that his theory was start shooting and keep shooting until the man you were shooting at was dead. (more)

Filming Locations:
Alberta, Canada (more)

Quotes:
[first lines]
Quick Mike: Dammit! Come a-running, lad!
Delilah Fitzgerald: Stop it!
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Awards:
Won 4 Oscars. Another 30 wins & 15 nominations (more)