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'Unforgiven marked Clint Eastwood's return to the genre that had made him a star. Eastwood plays a pig-farming ex-gunfighter who is lured out of retirement by the chance to earn some much needed money for his two children. While a moral ambiguity pervades the film, Unforgiven became an unprecedented critical and box-office success, earning an Oscar for Hackman's chilling performance and a pair for Eastwood as director and producer of this modern masterpiece.' Harvard Film Archive