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Movie Description In Clint Eastwood's acclaimed Western, Little Bill Daggett (Gene Hackman), a sadistic, dictatorial sheriff, enforces gun control on a tiny frontier town, doling out his own brand of due process as he sees fit. When he denies justice to the prostitutes of the town brothel, one of whom has been slashed by a client, the women hire Bill Munny (Eastwood), a reformed gunslinger, to gain vengeance. However, Munny must contend with his new moral code in the face of revisiting the life he left behind. Eastwood's directorial masterpiece also stars Morgan Freeman and Richard Harris.
Synopsis Clint Eastwood's tenth western and sixteenth directorial effort explores the darker side of the myths of the old west. When retired gunslinger Bill Munny accepts a $500 offer to shoot two men who viciously knifed a prostitute, he discovers just how difficult it is to escape his past as a notorious outlaw.
Industry Reviews "...Time has been good to Clint Eastwood....The cast is splendid..." New York Times - p.C1 - Vincent Canby (08/07/1992)
"...The film is full of sly or amusing touches....Deftly placed emotional moments..." -- 3 1/2 out of 4 stars USA Today - p.1D - Mike Clark
"...Engaging....Enjoy it for the handsome wide-screen vistas, the interplay of the actors, the classical sweep of its story line..." Entertainment Weekly - Owen Gleiberman (08/14/1993)
"...The screenplay by David Webb Peoples has dialogue as spare and evocative as Hemingway..." Chicago Sun-Times - Roger Ebert (12/27/1992)
"Eastwood's a true icon..." Total Film - Dan Jolin (03/01/2004)
"[An] intense, complex meditation on the corrupting nature of violence." Uncut - Michael Bonner (02/01/2003)
Quotations "I ain't like that no more."--Bill Munny (Clint Eastwood)
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