Unforgiven [Special Edition] [2 Discs]

Overview

"Warner Bros.' feature-filled, double-disc Special Edition DVD of the Clint Eastwood Western Unforgiven illustrates the evolution of the DVD. When first issued, the DVD of this multiple-Oscar-winning film of 1992 was a bare bones affair, with no special features or documentaries beyond picture and sound quality. But now the knowledge that DVD popularity is greatly enhanced by extra features has prompted many reissues, such as this two-disk Special Edition. The first disk contains the film in a stunningly beautiful letterbox widescreen version that preserves the aspect ratio of the original film, and a Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround sound soundtrack that puts the range in home on the range. Disk one also contains an insightful movie commentary by film critic and Eastwood biographer Richard Schickel, plus Eastwood film highlights and an awards list for the film. Disk two includes an Unforgiven retrospective ten years later, a ""making of"" feature about the film, a short feature about Eastwood, and a John Cusack-narrated biography of the film's star. But the real gold on the disk is the inclusion of an ancient episode of the popular 1950s TV show Maverick in which an impossibly-young Eastwood starred."

Product Details

Release Date:	09/24/2002
UPC:	0085392345724
Original Release:	1992
Rating:	R
Source:	STUDIO DISTRIBUTION SERVS LLC
Region Code:	1
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	2:11:00

Special Features

Closed Caption;Commentary by Time magazine film critic and Eastwood biographer Richard Schickel; Interactive menus; Eastwood film highlights; Awards list; Theatrical trailer; Scene access; Languages: English & Français (dubbed in Quebec); Subtitles: English, Français & Español; 4 marvelous documentaries, 2002's all-new on All on Account of Pullin' a Trigger , 1992's Eastwood & Co.: making Unforgiven, 1992's Eastwood...A Star and Schickel's penetrating 1997 career profile Eastwood on Eastwood classic Maverick episode Duel at Sundown

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Clint Eastwood	William Munny
Gene Hackman	Ma¿y Bill Daggett
Morgan Freeman	Ned Logan
Richard Harris	Anglik Bob
Saul Rubinek	W. W. Beauchamp
Frances Fisher	"Ruda" Alice
David Mucci	"Szybki Mike"
Rob Campbell	Davey Bunting
Anthony James	"Chudy" Dubois
Tara Dawn Frederick	Ma¿a Sue,Little Sue
Beverley Elliott	"G¿adka"
Stuart Aikins	Actor
Liisa Repo-Martell	Faith
Phyllis Huffman	Actor
Anna Thompson	Actor
Jaimz Woolvett	Actor
Josie Smith	Actor
Shane Meier	Will Munny
Aline Levasseur	Penny Munny
Jefferson Mappin	Actor
Henry Kope	Actor
Robert Koons	Actor
Ben Cardinal	Johnny Foley
Philip Hayes	Lippy MacGregor,Lippy MacGregor
Larry Joshua	Bucky
Frank C. Turner	Fuzzy
Anna Levine	Delilah Fitzgerald
Ron White	Clyde Ledbetter
Lennie Niehaus	Composer
George Orrison	The Shadow
Greg Goossen	Fighter
Chad Dowdell	Curious Townsperson (uncredited)
Mina E. Mina	Muddy Chandler
Jeremy Ratchford	Deputy Andy Russell
John Pyper-Ferguson	Charley Hecker
Walter Marsh	Barber
Larry Reese	Tom Luckinbill
Blair Haynes	Paddy McGee
Lochlyn Munro	Texas Slim
Michael Charrois	Wiggens
Michael Maurer	Train Person #3

Technical Credits

David Peoples

Clint Eastwood	Director,Producer
David Peoples	Screenwriter,Screenwriter
David Valdes	Executive Producer,Producer
Phyllis Huffman	Casting
John Frazier	Special Effects
Rob Young	Sound Mixer
Rick Alexander	Sound Effects
Les Fresholtz	Sound Effects
Julian Ludwig	Producer

Editorial Reviews

Appearing two years after Kevin Costner's Oscar-winning megahit Dances With Wolves, Unforgiven helped spur a mini-revival of the moribund genre in the 1990s that included Posse (1993), Tombstone (1993), and Sharon Stone's "Man With No Name" turn in The Quick and the Dead (1995). Written by David Webb Peoples in 1976, the script was bought by Clint Eastwood in the early '80s, though he waited until he was old enough to play psychotic antihero William Munny as a grizzled veteran of a bloody past, rather than someone closer to the younger Eastwood of Sergio Leone's "Dollars" trilogy and Don Siegel's Dirty Harry (1971). Upon its release in August 1992, seven years after Eastwood's previous western Pale Rider, Unforgiven was praised as an uncompromising revisionist masterpiece, showcasing Eastwood's visual command of western landscapes and locations and his perceptive yet critical view of the genre's mythology and his own place in its "machinery of violence." After deliberately pacing the reemergence of Munny's pathology, Eastwood shrouds the climactic shoot-out in cinematographer Jack N. Green's dark shadows and heavy rainfall reminiscent of film noir, rendering Munny's return to Eastwood's lethal star form unsettling in its victory. Unforgiven became an unexpected serious hit in a season of popcorn movies, eventually grossing over $100 million and reviving Eastwood's star standing after a series of late '80s flops. After winning several critics' prizes, it became one of only a handful of westerns to win the Best Picture Oscar; Eastwood's status behind the camera was finally acknowledged with a Best Director statuette.