Unforgiven [HD DVD]
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Actor: Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, Richard HarrisBrand: Warner Brothers
Cinematographer: Jack N. Green
Composer: Lennie Niehaus
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Original Language); French (Original Language); Spanish (Original Language); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.40:1
Running Time: 131 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-05-23
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Movie Reviews of Unforgiven [HD DVD]
Movie Review: They Don't Make 'Em Like This Anymore
Summary: 5 Stars
This is the rare, modern western masterpiece that Hollywood seems otherwise incapable of producing anymore. The plot is spare. A notorious ex-killer, William Munny (Clint Eastwood), reformed by his now-deceased wife, is running an unsuccessful pig farm when he is recruited by an aspiring young gun, Kid Schofield (James Woolvet).
Kid wants Munny to join him to kill two ranch hands in order to collect a $500 bounty. The reward is offered by the prostitutes of a brothel. One of the ranch hands has disfigured the face of one of their girls. Reluctant at first because of the memory of his beloved wife, Munny decides to join the Kid in order to collect the money in order to try to save his farm and provide for two children. Munny then recruits his friend, former partner, and expert rifleman Ned Logan (Morgan Freeman).
Gene Hackman, as "Little Bill", the town sheriff of Big Whiskey, Wyoming where the crime took place is the formidable obstacle standing in their way. He has already meted out his form of justice to the ranch hands and is not about to countenance someone else doing so. This is vividly and violently seen in a cameo by Richard Harris who is the first bounty hunter to arrive. Hackman's performance, combining his easy charm with a vicious ruthlessness is terrific. He deservedly won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
The dialogue is simple and direct in the John Wayne tradition. However, Eastwood's Munny is no Hondo out to tame the wild west. He is a product of the dark side of his time and environment. The mood is dark (technically, sometimes the lighting is too dark). At his age Eastwood is the perfectly grizzled cowboy and has an unforgiving, cold-eyed meanness that slowly reemerges as the movie progresses. It fully emerges in a breathtakingly violent, unrelenting brutality in the final scene in the bar at Big Whiskey where the prostitutes reside and ply their trade.
Woolvetz and Freeman are excellent in their supporting roles. But this classic is dominated by the outsize personas of Eastwood and Hackman. If you like the old cowboy movies, where the emphasis is on old west mores and not computer-generated pyrotechnics, you will treasure this movie as we treasure the old western mythology.
Summary of Unforgiven [HD DVD]
Clint Eastwood and Morgan Freeman play retired, down-on-their-luck outlaws who pick up their guns one last time to collect a bounty offered by the vengeful prostitutes of the remote Wyoming town of Big Whiskey. Richard Harris is an ill-fated interloper, a colorful killer-for-hire called English Bob. And Best Supporting Actor Oscar winner Gene Hackman is the sly and brutal local sheriff whose brand of law enforcement ranges from unconventional to ruthless.DVD Features:
Audio Commentary:Commentary by Richard Schickel
Documentary:Eastwood a Star
Featurette:All on a Counta Pulling a Trigger
Interviews:Eastwood on Eastwood Eastwood & Co. Making of
TV Special:Maverick Episode "Duel in the Sun"
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Winner of four Academy Awards, including best picture, director, supporting actor, and best editing, Clint Eastwood's 1992 masterpiece stands as one of the greatest and most thematically compelling Westerns ever made. "The movie summarized everything I feel about the Western," said Eastwood at the time of the film's release. "The moral is the concern with gunplay." To illustrate that theme, Eastwood stars as a retired, once-ruthless killer-turned-gentle-widower and hog farmer. He accepts one last bounty-hunter mission--to find the men who brutalized a prostitute--to help support his two motherless children. Joined by his former partner (Morgan Freeman) and a cocky greenhorn (Jaimz Woolvett), he takes on a corrupt sheriff (Oscar winner Gene Hackman) in a showdown that makes the viewer feel the full impact of violence and its corruption of the soul. Dedicated to Eastwood's mentors Sergio Leone and Don Siegel and featuring a colorful role for Richard Harris, it's arguably Eastwood's crowning directorial achievement. --Jeff Shannon
Winner of four Academy Awards, including best picture, director, supporting actor, and best editing, Clint Eastwood's 1992 masterpiece stands as one of the greatest and most thematically compelling Westerns ever made. "The movie summarized everything I feel about the Western," said Eastwood at the time of the film's release. "The moral is the concern with gunplay." To illustrate that theme, Eastwood stars as a retired, once-ruthless killer-turned-gentle-widower and hog farmer. He accepts one last bounty-hunter mission--to find the men who brutalized a prostitute--to help support his two motherless children. Joined by his former partner (Morgan Freeman) and a cocky greenhorn (Jaimz Woolvett), he takes on a corrupt sheriff (Oscar winner Gene Hackman) in a showdown that makes the viewer feel the full impact of violence and its corruption of the soul. Dedicated to Eastwood's mentors Sergio Leone and Don Siegel and featuring a colorful role for Richard Harris, it's arguably Eastwood's crowning directorial achievement. The digital video disc offers standard and widescreen formats and a remastered soundtrack. --Jeff Shannon
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