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UNFORGIVEN is a modern classic that “summarizes everything I feel about the Western,” director/star Clint Eastwood told the Los Angeles Times. This American Film Institute Top-100 American Movies selection rode off with four 1992 Academy Awards®*, including Best Picture, Director, Supporting Actor (Gene Hackman) and Editing (Joel Cox). Eastwood and Morgan Freeman play retired outlaws who pick up their guns one last time to collect a bounty. Richard Harris is an ill-fated killer-for-hire. And Hackman is a lawman of sly charm… and chilling brutality. UNFORGIVEN is “a Western for the ages” (Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times).

The 4K remaster was completed from a 4K scan of the original camera negative.  Mastering was completed at Warner Bros. Motion Picture Imaging. Color correction was completed by Ray Grabowski , under the supervision of editor Joel Cox. 

Release date in France on May 20th

Theatrical release in France on June 21st

INCLUDES REMASTERED BLU-RAY DISC™.

SPECIAL FEATURES:

• Commentary by Eastwood Biographer Richard Schickel

• 4 Documentaries

• Classic Maverick Episode Duel at Sundown

• Theatrical Trailer

UNFORGIVEN

- Production Information -

William Munny (CLINT EASTWOOD) is an outlaw hiding from his past. Eleven years have gone by since he put down his gun, leaving behind his ugly reputation as a cold-blooded killer who robbed trains and shot up towns. Now he lives quietly with his young son and daughter, working as a hog farmer out on the Kansas prairie. Munny's wife has recently passed away and it is clear that her influence profoundly changed him.

Still, he is a poor farmer with children to support, and his farm stock dwindling from fever. The harsh realities of life on the plains during the l880s have brought Munny and his small family to rock bottom.

At this low point he is visited by The Schofield Kid (JAIMZ WOOLVETT), who is looking for a partner to help him gun down a couple of cowboys and collect a bounty.

According to The Schofield Kid, two men cut up a prostitute in a town called Big Whiskey. The sheriff there, a practical, hard-nosed ex-gunman named Little Bill Daggett (GENE HACKMAN) let the cowboys off lightly, demanding only that they pay a "fine" of six horses to the whorehouse owner. Outraged, the other women in the house pooled their earnings and put a five hundred-dollar bounty on each of the cowboys. The Schofield Kid is looking for a partner to help him collect the bounty.

After hearing this story, Munny decides to join The Schofield Kid, but only if his old partner Ned Logan (MORGAN FREEMAN) rides with them. Logan, also an outlaw in his younger days, is now living with an Indian woman on a small farm in the western Badlands. He is settled and at peace with himself, but the financial opportunity presented by the bounty hunt, coupled with his loyalty to Munny, is too much to ignore.

The three set out for Big Whiskey, where their arrival has been preceded by a killer-for-hire known as English Bob (RICHARD HARRIS), accompanied by his biographer, dimestore novelist W.W. Beauchamp (SAUL RUBINEK).

English Bob encounters some brutal treatment when Little Bill Daggett uses him as an example of what happens to bounty hunters. English Bob's departure from Big Whiskey is humiliating and solitary; his biographer remains in town, now attached to Little Bill Daggett as a true source of "Wild West" information.

W.W. Beauchamp soon has more to write about than he ever imagined. His first-hand experience involves three men with guns and a common intention. Little Bill Daggett and his deputies are drawn in, as are the two "pardoned" cowboys and the women who want them dead.

W.W. Beauchamp will witness one final resolution of friendship, frontier law and revenge. More terrifying, this event will reveal the transformation of William Munny back into the killer he once was.

Filmed entirely on location in Alberta, Canada, and Sonora, California, "Unforgiven" brings an unsentimental, realistic view of the American West to the screen. The film, written by DAVID WEBB PEOPLES, encompasses an elemental view of life, revealed by characters whose destiny is determined by events out of their control. It is a spare, revisionist look at the making of heroes and legends.

“Unforgiven” won four Academy Awards® in 1992, including Best Picture, Best Director for Clint Eastwood, Best Supporting Actor for Gene Hackman, and Best Sound Editing. The Golden Globes® also honored the film with two awards, Best Director for Eastwood and Best Supporting Actor for Hackman.

Since directing “Unforgiven” Eastwood has continued to direct at a prolific pace, helming such films as “In the Line of Fire,” “The Bridges of Madison County,” the Academy Award-nominated “Mystic River” (Best Picture, Best Director, 2003), the Academy Award-winning “Million Dollar Baby (Best Picture, Best Director, 2004), “Flags of Our Fathers,” the Academy Award-nominated “Letters from Iwo Jima” (Best Picture, Best Director, 2006), “Gran Torino,” “Invictus,” the Academy Award-nominated “American Sniper” (Best Picture, 2014), and “Sully.”

About the Production...

The filming of "Unforgiven" required construction of a town which would realistically reflect the l880s. All indications of modern life had to be absent, not just on the immediate premises, but for an uninterrupted 360-degree vista.

Producer, director and star Clint Eastwood insisted that the locations be an extension of the story. Familiar with the area surrounding Calgary, Alberta, Canada, from previous visits, he knew that the rugged, sparsely settled terrain of the area closely resembled the American West of the late 19th century.

Working in cooperation with Bill Marsden, the film commissioner for the province of Alberta, Eastwood personally chose the site for the town of Big Whiskey, as well as the placement of Bill Munny's and Ned Logan's farms and Bill Daggett's lakeside house.

Once the sites were selected, two-time Academy Award-winning production designer HENRY BUMSTEAD ("To Kill A Mockingbird" and "The Sting") began designing and overseeing the construction of the various farms and the town of Big Whiskey. Working closely with executive producer DAVID VALDES, he spared no detail and, remarkably, filming began approximately two months later.

During the same pre-production phase, Western technical consultant, director, and dean of stunt coordinators BUDDY VAN HORN insured that all the actors could ride, that all stunts were properly choreographed, and that real cowboys were used as extras and background whenever possible. Van Horn's 30-year experience in these areas was Eastwood's guarantee of accuracy.

Out of roughly 11 weeks of filming, nine weeks took place in Alberta with a predominantly Canadian crew. Specific locations included Brooks, home of the Munny hog farm; Drumheller, site of the Logan farm; and Longview, where Little Bill Daggett's house and the town of Big Whiskey were built. The remaining two weeks of work were filmed in Sonora, California, primarily to take advantage of a l9th century narrow-gauge train which still operates in the area.

Warner Bros. Presents A Malpaso Production: Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman and Richard Harris in "Unforgiven." The film was produced and directed by Clint Eastwood, and was written by David Webb Peoples. David Valdes is executive producer. The production designer is Henry Bumstead and the director of photography is Jack N. Green. The editor is Joel Cox and the music score is by Lennie Niehaus. Distributed by Warner Bros., A Time Warner Company.

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CLINT EASTWOOD has been honored for his work as a filmmaker and actor. He most recently directed the real-life dramas “Sully,” starring Oscar winner Tom Hanks as Captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger, and “American Sniper,” starring Bradley Cooper. The highest-grossing film of 2014, “American Sniper” was also one of the most acclaimed, receiving six Oscar nominations, including Best Picture. The film also brought Eastwood his fourth Directors Guild of America (DGA) Award nomination and a National Board of Review Award for Best Director.

A four-time Oscar winner, Eastwood won his first Oscars, for Best Director and Best Picture, for his 1992 Western “Unforgiven,” which received a total of nine nominations, including one for Eastwood for Best Actor. Eastwood also won Golden Globe and DGA Awards for the film, which garnered Best Picture honors from several critics groups.

In 2005, Eastwood won two more Oscars in the same categories for “Million Dollar Baby,” again earning a Best Actor nomination for his performance in the film. He also won his second DGA Award and another Best Director Golden Globe, as well as a Golden Globe nomination for the film’s score.

Eastwood has twice more earned dual Oscar nominations, in the categories of Best Director and Best Picture, for the dramatic thriller “Mystic River,” for which he also garnered Golden Globe and DGA Award nominations, and the World War II drama “Letters from Iwo Jima,” which won Golden Globe and Critics’ Choice Awards for Best Foreign Language Film and received Best Picture Awards from a number of film critics groups. “Letters from Iwo Jima” was the companion film to Eastwood’s widely praised drama “Flags of Our Fathers.”

In 2008, Eastwood’s “Changeling” received three Oscar nominations and Eastwood received BAFTA Award and London Film Critics Award nominations for Best Director, as well as a Golden Globe nomination for Best Original Score. The film was also nominated for a Palme d’Or and won a Special Award when it premiered at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival. He had received three previous Palme d’Or nominations: for “White Hunter Black Heart,” in 1990; “Bird,” at the 1988 festival; and “Pale Rider,” in 1985. He also won his first Best Director Golden Globe Award for “Bird.”

In more recent years, Eastwood directed and produced the big-screen version of the Tony Award-winning musical “Jersey Boys,” about the start of the 1960s rock group The Four Seasons. He also directed and produced the biographical drama “J. Edgar”; “Hereafter,” which received Italy’s David di Donatello Award for Best Foreign Film; and the drama “Invictus,” for which he won a National Board of Review Award and earned Golden Globe and Critics’ Choice Award nominations for Best Director. In addition, he starred in, directed and produced the hit “Gran Torino,” for which he won a Best Actor Award from the National Board of Review.

Eastwood also directed and starred in such memorable films as “Blood Work,” “Space Cowboys,” “True Crime,” “Absolute Power,” “The Bridges of Madison County,” “The Rookie,” “Heartbreak Ridge,” “Sudden Impact,” “Honkytonk Man,” “Firefox,” “Bronco Billy,” “The Outlaw Josey Wales,” “The Eiger Sanction,” “High Plains Drifter,” and “Play Misty for Me,” which marked his directorial debut.

Eastwood first came to worldwide fame as an actor in such legendary Westerns as “A Fistful of Dollars,” “For a Few Dollars More,” “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly,” “Hang ‘Em High,” and “Two Mules for Sister Sara.” His film acting work also includes “Kelly’s Heroes,” “Escape from Alcatraz,” the “Dirty Harry” actioners, “Every Which Way But Loose,” “Any Which Way You Can,” “In the Line of Fire” and “Trouble with the Curve.”

Over the course of his remarkable career, Eastwood has received a number of lifetime and career achievement honors, including the Motion Picture Academy’s Irving Thalberg Memorial Award and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s Cecil B. DeMille Award. He has also garnered tributes from the Directors Guild of America, the Producers Guild of America, the Screen Actors Guild, the American Film Institute, the Film Society of Lincoln Center, the French Film Society, the National Board of Review, and the Henry Mancini Institute. He is also the recipient of a Kennedy Center Honor, the California Governor’s Award for the Arts, and France’s Commandeur de la Legion d’honneur.

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