Film

Unforgiven 1992

Directed by Clint Eastwood

  • Western
  • 130 min
  • R

Some legends will never be forgotten. Some wrongs can never be forgiven.

William Munny is a retired, once-ruthless killer turned gentle widower and hog farmer. To help support his two motherless children, he accepts one last bounty-hunter mission to find the men who brutalized a prostitute. Joined by his former partner and a cocky greenhorn, he takes on a corrupt sheriff.

Westernprostitutesheriffright and justiceregretwyoming, usakansas, usarevengemutilationone last jobreputation19th centuryenglishman

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