Unforgiven / director, Clint Eastwood.
Material type:
FilmPublisher number: 1000537537 | Warner Bros.Language: English, French Original language: English Subtitle language: Spanish, English, French Publisher: [Burbank, California] : Warner Home Video, [2015]Edition: Special editionDescription: 2 videodiscs (131 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inContent type: - two-dimensional moving image
- video
- videodisc
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Dr. James Carlson Library | DVD | WESTERN Unforgiv | Available | 33111008636306 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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 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-dollar 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 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 the Man With No Name. ~ Lucia Bozzola, Rovi
Special features: audio commentary; documentary: behind-the-scenes "Eastwood & Co. making unforgiven"; featurette: 10th anniversary featurette "All on accounta pullin' a trigger; filmographies: cast/crew film highlights ; interviews: with Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Richard Harris, other; The career retrospective "Eastwood on Eastwood" by critic/biographer, Ric hard Schickel; classic "Maverick" TV series episode "Duel at sundown" (airdate February 1, 1959), in which Eastwood plays a virtual younger incarnation of his "Unforgiven" role.
Title from web page.
Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman, Gene Hackman, Richard Harris, Frances Fisher, Saul Rubinek, Jaimz Woolvett.
Two retired, down-on-their-luck outlaws pick up their guns one last time to collect a bounty offered by the vengeful prostitutes of the remote Wyoming town of Big Whiskey.
MPAA rating: R; for language, and violence, and for a scene of sexuality CHV rating: 14A.
DVD, region 1 widescreen (2.35:1), 16x9 letterbox.
English (Dolby digital surround 5.1) or French (Dolby surround stereo) dialogue; Spanish, English or French subtitles; closed-captioned.