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The Unforgiven Overview:

The Unforgiven (1960) was a Western - Romance Film directed by John Huston and produced by Harold Hecht, Burt Lancaster and James Hill.

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THE UNFORGIVEN

The Kino/Lorber company has been releasing rare & unusual films on home video for years, particularly those from the silent era. This year the company started a "Kino/Lorber Studio Classics" line which will release a number of MGM/United Artists titles. One of the latest is the off-beat 1960 Wes... Read full article


THE UNFORGIVEN

The Kino/Lorber company has been releasing rare & unusual films on home video for years, particularly those from the silent era. This year the company started a "Kino/Lorber Studio Classics" line which will release a number of MGM/United Artists titles. One of the latest is the off-beat 1960 Wes... Read full article


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The Unforgiven Quotes:

[the Zacharys are discussing the rumors about Rachel]
Cash: It's out there, Ben. It's layin' on their stomachs and they don't know what to do.
Ben: Well, it's still a lie and we've got nothin' to be ashamed of.
Cash: What are we goin' to do when one of them says it? What are we goin' to do when one of them says it to Rachel?
Ben: Kill 'em, I guess.
Cash: That's all I wanted to hear.

[Cash advocates killing the Kiowa outside of the house]
Ben: All right, Cash. Let's see if they're after our scalps first.
[shoots the top of one Indian's lance]
Ben: I'm going out to talk. Cash, if they break the peace, kill them.
Cash: When will that be?
Ben: When they kill me.

[first lines]
[yelling at a cow eating grass growing on the Zachary family's roof]
Rachel Zachary: Shoo now! Shoo! Ain't you got no better manners than to eat at the top of a house?

Cash Zachary: I've left my family. They've changed. Turned into Indian lovers; Injun lovers. I'm a little drunk, Georgia.
Georgia Rawlins: C'mon, Cash. You can sleep it off in the barn. There's a nice bed in my room if you'll marry me.
Cash Zachary: I might be drunk; but I ain't that drunk.

Rachel Zachary: Ben, what did those Indians want?
Ben Zachary: They offered to buy you for those five horses.
Rachel Zachary: Well, did you sell me?
Ben Zachary: Nope; held out for more horses.
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The Unforgiven Facts
Audrey Hepburn was seriously injured when she was thrown by a horse between scenes. Hepburn, who was several months pregnant, spent six weeks in the hospital and completed her role wearing a back brace, which her wardrobe had to be redesigned to hide. Sadly, she suffered a miscarriage a few months later, which some blamed on her injury from this movie. John Huston blamed himself for the mishap and hated this movie. Hepburn, however, bore no ill will towards the director. While Hepburn was in hospital, Huston filmed scenes using a double.

"The Unforgiven" was Audrey Hepburn's only Western.

Average Shot Length (ASL) = 8.7 seconds

During the filming 'Audie Murphy' and a friend decided to go duck hunting on a nearby lake. The boat capsized and Murphy nearly drowned, but was saved by a female photographer who had been taking pictures nearby.

Before filming began, director John Huston and star Burt Lancaster took actress Lillian Gish out to the desert to teach her how to shoot, which she would have to do in the film. However, Huston was astounded to discover that Gish could shoot more accurately, and faster, than both he and Lancaster, who thought themselves expert marksmen. It turned out that early in her career Gish was taught how to shoot by notorious western outlaw and gunfighter Al J. Jennings, who had become an actor after his release from a long prison sentence for train robbery and was in the cast of one of her films. She found that she liked shooting and over the years had developed into an expert shot.

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