Unforgiven (1992) on Netflix
William Munny, a repentant killer turned hog farmer in Kansas, takes one last bounty job. He rides with his old partner Ned Logan and a boastful young stranger.
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A cowboy cuts a prostitute's face with a knife in Big Whiskey, Wyoming, and Sheriff Little Bill Daggett takes ponies from him and his companion as payment to her employer for the lost trade. The other women in the brothel think that is no justice and put a bounty on the two men. In Kansas, William Munny, a repentant widower raising two children on a failing hog farm, hears of it. A boastful young stranger calling himself the Schofield Kid asks for his help.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Unforgiven (1992)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- In 1984 Eastwood's long-time story editor at Malpaso Productions, Sonia Chernus, sent him a scathing memo about the script, saying it “doesn't deserve my time or yours”, calling it “an insult to this company” and telling him to get rid of it fast.
- Eastwood personally phoned Harris to offer him the role of English Bob, and later said Harris was watching Eastwood's 1973 movie High Plains Drifter at the time of the call, which led Harris to think it was a prank.
- Gene Hackman was hesitant to play Bill Daggett, as his daughters were upset that he was starring in too many violent films, but his agent and Eastwood convinced him to do it.
- Unforgiven's Best Picture win made it only the third Western ever to take that Oscar, following Cimarron in 1931 and Dances with Wolves in 1990.
- The film's $15 million opening weekend was the best ever for an Eastwood film at the time and the highest August opening on record, a record it held for a year until The Fugitive surpassed it.
