A Breed Apart ... Unashamed ... Unconquerable ... Unforgettable!
The Unforgiven from 1960; starring Burt Lancaster, Audrey Hepburn, Audie Murphy, John Saxon; with Albert Salmi and Doug McClure
Writers: Ben Maddow (screenplay), Alan Le May (based on a novel by)
IMDb Movie Outline: The neighbors of a frontier family turn on them when it is suspected that their adopted daughter was stolen from the local Kiowa tribe.
- Also known as: The Siege at Dancing Bird
- Filming locations: Durango, Mexico
- Rating/Certificate: Approved
- Release date: April 6, 1960 (United States)
- Runtime: 2hr, 5min
Trivia:
- "The Unforgiven" was Audrey Hepburn's only Western.
- According to Audie Murphy's biographer Don Graham, the script called for Burt Lancaster to slap him. That enraged the war hero to such a degree that witnesses thought that Murphy, who carried a gun, might have killed Lancaster under different circumstances. John Huston eventually defused the situation.
- John Huston intended the film as a response to John Ford's The Searchers (1956).
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