The Unforgiven

1960

Action / Drama / Romance / Western

9
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 59% · 6 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 59% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.5/10 10 10804 10.8K

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Plot summary

The neighbors of a frontier family turn on them when it is suspected that their beloved adopted daughter was stolen from the Kiowa tribe.

Director

John Huston Photo
John Huston

Top cast

Joseph Wiseman Photo
Joseph Wiseman as Abe Kelsey
Lillian Gish Photo
Lillian Gish as Mattilda Zachary
Albert Salmi Photo
Albert Salmi as Charlie Rawlins
Audrey Hepburn Photo
Audrey Hepburn as Rachel Zachary
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1.05 GB
1280*544
English 2.0
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25 fps
1 hr 56 min
Seeds 4
1.94 GB
1920*816
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
25 fps
1 hr 56 min
Seeds 18

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by JamesHitchcock 7 / 10

A Mirror-Image of "The Searchers"

Reviewed by bkoganbing 6 / 10

Tearing The Family Apart

This film, The Unforgiven, as opposed to Clint Eastwood's classic is taken from a novel by Alan LeMay who also wrote The Searchers. Both stories are about the post Civil War Texas frontier. But in this one we have the Indians seeking out one of there's who's been taken by whites and raised as one of their own. The person in question is Audrey Hepburn who's been raised by Lillian Gish as her own daughter and sister to her three sons, Burt Lancaster, Audie Murphy, and Doug McClure.It was an unwritten law of Hollywood that no one shoots a film in Monument Valley except John Ford. So John Huston made due with Durango in Mexico which had become a favorite western location site also. Huston got some good performances out of his cast although he had many problems. Audrey Hepburn fell off a horse and was injured for a few weeks. Audie Murphy nearly drowned in a river. Topping it all off, according to a recent biography of Burt Lancaster was the fact that Lillian Gish served as a kind of back seat driver to John Huston. She was forever telling him that D.W. Griffith did this or that a different way. But apparently Ms. Gish was satisfied with the finished product because she acclaimed Huston as another Griffith when it was over.The story really gets going when some Kiowas come knocking on Lillian Gish's door demanding Audrey Hepburn's return. When it's discovered that Hepburn in fact is an Indian, the reaction of the neighbors and some of the family is to send her back. Lancaster, Gish, and McClure aren't having it though.The Unforgiven was butchered in the editing department. One role that was mostly left on the cutting room floor apparently was John Saxon as a halfbreed named Johnny Portugal. Standing out though is Joseph Wiseman as the crazy ex-cavalryman now turned preacher who has a hate for Audrey Hepburn. Why he does you'll have to see the film, but it's an interesting problem.Its parts, its individual performances make The Unforgiven an uneven film where the whole is not greater than the sum of those parts.
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