Synopsis for
Unforgiven (1992)

Comments by Actor / Writer Roy C. Peterson

A retired gunslinger, Bill Munny, is called back into action on a heroic quest to avenge young whores slashed by drunken cowboys. Bill is joined by a young amateur, The Schofield Kid, and his old partner, Ned. There's a Jekyll-Hyde mechanism here with alcohol, because Bill did most of his earlier killing when very drunk and doesn't remember too much about it.

There's a sadistic sheriff, Little Bill Daggett, who badly needs killing, and a spectacular gunfight at the end. Bill Munny guns down six adversaries just like metal ducks in a shooting gallery. The ability to read people is an important characteristic for survival in any fighter, especially gunfighters, and works almost like precognition. A penny dreadful reporter, W W Beauchamp, wonders about this and asks Bill how he knows what order to shoot people in when there are so many. Bill says that he doesn't really know, that he's just always been lucky about sequence.

Bill retires to San Francisco with his two children and prospers in dry goods. I was hoping he would marry up with the nice blond girl, Delilah, but I reckon he didn't. This is an excellent movie and adds yet another volume to the fine collection of Clint Eastwood's splendid westerns.