Unforgiven / Outlaw Josey Wales

The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)

Director/star Clint Eastwood and co-screenwriter Phil Kaufman add another dimension to Eastwood's classic insular western hero, as a Missouri farmer enlists in the Confederate army to better pursue the renegade soldiers responsible for his family's murder. And during a trek to Mexico with an aged Cherokee Indian (Chief Dan George), comes to the aid of a number of people in need of help. Co-stars Bill McKinney, John Vernon, and Sondra Locke. 135 min. C/Rtg: PG

Unforgiven (1992)

Four Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Director, and Supporting Actor, went to director/star Clint Eastwood's superb revisionist western about a Will Munny, a former gunslinger who now scrapes by on a farm in Kansas. With an opportunity to collect the reward and save his land, Munny--with old pal Ned Logan (Morgan Freeman) by his side--heads to Wyoming to bring Old West justice to a pair of cowhands who disfigured a prostitute. With Gene Hackman, Richard Harris, Jaimz Woolvett, Frances Fisher. 131 min. C/Rtg: R