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No relation to the 1992 Clint Eastwood film of almost the same name, The Unforgiven is based--like John Ford's The Searchers--on a novel...(read more...) by Alan LeMay. Again the story focuses on a frontier family divided by racism. But instead of the complex, endlessly resonant demonology of the Ford picture, John Huston aims in The Unforgiven for a pat, civil-rights-era allegory of loving solidarity triumphing over societal prejudice--and, to be sure, some noble but dangerous Kiowas. Burt Lancaster and Audrey Hepburn costar as, respectively, the eldest son of a ranching family and the beloved sister who's not his sister at all, but an Indian. However, the film's dark heart belongs to Joseph Wiseman as an avenging ghost who materializes out of the wind, and Lillian Gish as the matriarch who will do whatever she must to protect her clan. With Audie Murphy, Charles Bickford, Albert Salmi, John Saxon, and Doug McClure. --Richard T. Jameson

Director: John Huston

MPAA: Unrated

Running Time: 123 min.

Release Date: Apr 06, 1960

Cast: Albert Salmi, Arnold Merritt, Audie Murphy, Audrey Hepburn, Burt Lancaster, Carlos Rivas, Charles Bickford, Doug McClure, John Saxon, Joseph Wiseman, June Walker, Kipp Hamilton, Lillian Gish