The Unforgiven is a classic 1960 American western film directed by John
Huston and starring Burt Lancaster and Audrey Hepburn.
Famously acclaimed director, John Huston guides this western with an unerring
hand. Beginning with a series of suspenseful scenes, Huston has a mysterious
stranger on horseback come into a small community in the Texas Panhandle and
then proceed to cause a mini-war.
The time is the mid-19th century and there is already antagonism between the
white settlers in the community and the local Kiowa Indian nation. The Zachary
family is at the crux of the trouble. Matilda (Lillian Gish) is the matriarch
who holds a family secret her adopted daughter Rachel (Audrey Hepburn) is
actually a Kiowa child. There are three brothers in the Zachary family, and one
of them, Ben (Burt Lancaster) is obviously in love with Rachel. Another, Cash
(Audie Murphy) hates Native Americans, while the youngest (Doug McClure) is
there to defend the family when they need it. The stranger on horseback has done
the unthinkable, he has made it widely known that Rachel is a Kiowa… and then
the battles begin