A 1992 American revisionist Western directed by and starring Clint Eastwood as a retired outlaw who takes one last job to track down two cowboys who maimed a prostitute.
Production
Warner Bros. released Unforgiven in August 1992. David Webb Peoples had written the screenplay in 1976, but Clint Eastwood held the project for years, waiting until he felt old enough to play the lead role of William Munny.
Plot
In 1880, the widowed pig farmer William Munny is recruited by the Schofield Kid to claim a bounty offered by prostitutes in the Wyoming town of Big Whiskey. Munny brings along his old partner Ned Logan, while the town’s brutal sheriff Little Bill Daggett pushes back against bounty hunters.
Reception
Unforgiven won four Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Supporting Actor for Gene Hackman as Daggett. The film is widely seen as a deconstruction of the Hollywood Western, and it dedicates its final card to Sergio Leone and Don Siegel.