The Unforgiven Page #3

Synopsis: 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.
Director(s): John Huston
Production: United Artists
 
IMDB:
6.7
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Year:
1960
125 min
714 Views


Do you want to marry me?

I'd like that just fine...

except I promised myself

I'd go to Wichita first.

What in the world for?

I ain't never in my life had...

a glass of beer.

How long will that take?

- Month or two.

- I can't wait, I just can't.

I found a gray hair in my head this morning.

Cash, you old stickleback,

you know you love Georgia.

- Do I?

- He don't.

- Don't I?

- I don't want him. I hate him.

Come here, Georgia.

No, not in a million years.

I said come here.

Dust him good, Georgia.

Closer.

Georgia, you just spoiled the best chance

you ever had of getting me married.

I hate you.

I'll kill them.

I'll kill all the men in the whole world.

Honey, pretty, you'd just be sorry tomorrow.

Honey, pretty,

if you're all that anxious to get married...

there's an old man over in the brush,

with one good eye.

What old man?

Georgia.

He didn't mention his name.

Mama, that's the old hunter.

The one I told you about.

What old hunter?

Mama, was anybody here?

Nobody, Cash.

Nobody at all.

But, Mama, that crazy old man.

The one with the saber.

Him.

Did you see him, Mama?

Yes. Many and many a time.

I've seen a hundred if I've seen one.

They all look alike to me.

Lonely.

There are lonely men

riding all over this country.

Buffalo hunters, only the buff is gone.

I feel sorry for them.

No home, no family.

Sorry for them, I tell you.

Will you do something for me, Cash?

Stay home.

It's a dirty job. I'm coming along.

Glory, glory, hallelujah

Glory, glory, hallelujah

Fiery sword!

Zacharys are finished!

Quit and run!

Cash?

Seen him?

- You hear him shout something?

- Was that him or the wind?

- I saw the flash of his saber.

- Where?

First over there, and then over here.

- Maybe there's two of him.

- There's two of us.

Arrows of God upon them!

He can't get far on a dead horse.

- Cash?

- Yeah.

I can't see for nothing.

Couldn't see a standing mountain

in this storm.

It's hopeless, Cash.

Hopeless for now.

Be three or four days

till this norther blows itself out.

Three or four days, he'll be dead.

He'll dry up and blow away.

Kelseys don't die. They got to be killed.

Ben!

Get him!

Hang on, Ben!

Ride him, boy! Ride him!

Okay!

Hang on, now!

There, he'll never make it!

Hold him! I'll ride him!

You'll ride him, you can get him, Charlie!

Ride him, Charlie!

Stay with him, Charlie!

You don't hurt me none!

Poor Charlie-boy, you didn't ride him

long enough to get warm.

I'm right proud of you, Charlie.

Don't feel bad.

Ain't a man that can't be thrown.

Or ain't a horse that can't be rode.

Why don't you give her a try...

paleface?

Easy, girl, easy.

Ain't you the prettiest devil I ever did see?

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Ben Maddow

Benjamin D. Maddow (August 7, 1909 in Passaic, New Jersey – October 9, 1992 in Los Angeles, California) was a prolific screenwriter and documentarian from the 1930s through the 1970s. Educated at Columbia University, Maddow began his career working within the American documentary movement in the 1930s. In 1936 he co-founded the short-lived left-wing newsreel The World Today. Under the pseudonym of David Wolff, Maddow co-wrote the screenplay to the Paul Strand–Leo Hurwitz documentary landmark, Native Land (1942). He earned his first feature screenplay credit with Framed (1947). Other screenplays include Clarence Brown's Intruder in the Dust (1949, an adaptation of the William Faulkner novel), John Huston's The Asphalt Jungle (1950, for which he received an Academy Award nomination), Johnny Guitar (1954, credited to Philip Yordan, God's Little Acre (1958, an adaptation of the Erskine Caldwell novel officially credited to Philip Yordan as a HUAC-era "front" for Maddow), and, again with Huston, an Edgar Award for Best Mystery Screenplay) and The Unforgiven (1960). As a documentarian he directed and wrote such films as Storm of Strangers, The Stairs, and The Savage Eye (1959), which won the BAFTA Flaherty Documentary Award. Maddow made his solo feature directorial debut with the striking, offbeat feature An Affair of the Skin (1963), a well-acted story of several loves and friendships gone sour and marked by the rich characterisations which had distinguished his best screenplays. In 1961, Maddow and Huston co-wrote the episode "The Professor" of the 1961 television series The Asphalt Jungle. In 1968 he wrote a screenplay based on Edmund Naughton's novel McCabe; while a film adaptation of the novel was ultimately produced as McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971), Maddow wasn't credited on the film. His final screenplay was for the horror melodrama The Mephisto Waltz (1970). more…

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