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The Unforgiven (1960)

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

Director:

John Huston

Writers:

Ben Maddow (screenplay), Alan Le May (based on a novel by) (as Alan LeMay)
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Cast

Complete credited cast:
Burt Lancaster ... Ben Zachary
Audrey Hepburn ... Rachel Zachary
Audie Murphy ... Cash Zachary
John Saxon ... Johnny Portugal
Charles Bickford ... Zeb Rawlins
Lillian Gish ... Mattilda Zachary
Albert Salmi ... Charlie Rawlins
Joseph Wiseman ... Abe Kelsey
June Walker ... Hagar Rawlins
Kipp Hamilton ... Georgia Rawlins
Arnold Merritt ... Jude Rawlins
Doug McClure ... Andy Zachary
Carlos Rivas ... Lost Bird
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Storyline

Western about racial intolerance focuses around Kiowa claim that the Zachary daughter is one of their own, stolen in a raid. The dispute results in other whites turning their backs on the Zacharys when the truth is revealed by Mother. Cash, the hotheaded brother, reacts violently upon learning his "sister" is a "red-hide Indian." He leaves the family but returns to help them fight off an Indian raid. Written by <[email protected]>

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The Heroic Story That Stands Tall and Proud Among the Screen Giants! See more »

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Drama | Romance | Western

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Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

6 April 1960 (USA) See more »

Also Known As:

Denen man nicht vergibt See more »

Filming Locations:

Durango, Mexico

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Budget:

$5,000,000 (estimated)
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Technical Specs

Runtime:

| (Turner library print)

Sound Mix:

Mono (Westrex Recording System)

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1
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Trivia

"The Unforgiven" was Audrey Hepburn's only Western. See more »

Goofs

When the piano is delivered, Mrs. Zachary sits down to play it, and it is in perfect tune. Not possible! Moving a piano always knocks it out of tune, and moving a piano in a wagon across that terrain would have made it terribly out of tune. See more »

Quotes

[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?
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Connections

Referenced in Judging Amy: The Unforgiven (2001) See more »

Soundtracks

Turkey in the Straw
(uncredited)
Traditional
Played after the lunch of the Zacharys and the Rawlins families
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Gross casting mistakes.
15 March 2017 | by filipemanuelneto – See all my reviews

This film is an atypical western that tells the story of a girl who discovers, after living all her life on a farm, being born in an Indian tribe from where she was stolen as a baby. The idea is quite unique and works well, allowing a western a psychological and dramatic depth that, otherwise, would hardly have reached. The question is deeper than it seems: one of the men in the family, who grew up thinking that he was the girl's brother, shows that he feels all that feelings that are usually condemned between siblings. Luckily for him, she's not really his sister...

The film is quite interesting, has a sufficiently well structured story, doesn't stretch too much in sentimentality nor it's absolutely cold. The location of the footage, scenarios and costumes are convincing and appropriate to the historical period. The problem with this movie is the cast. Although none of them have a performance that I can clearly label as bad, the choice was thought out without regard to the script. Thus we have an extremely white and European Audrey Hepburn in a character who is Amerindian, Indians who are Caucasian men painted... an out of season carnival. It may not seem like it, but it takes a lot of quality out of the film.


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