The Unforgiven
Let There Be Light: The Films of John Huston
December 19, 2014 - January 11, 2015
Huston hoped to make a frank statement on racial prejudice in America with this saga of a frontier family and their adopted Indian daughter; though it fell short of his expectations, it remains a sober and intelligent film with fine performances.
This Texas-set saga of a frontier family whose adopted daughter (Audrey Hepburn, in her only Western) may possess Native American blood, was Huston’s response to John Ford’s The Searchers. Huston hoped to make a frank statement on racial prejudice in America, and though studio interference blocked him from fully realizing his goal, the finished product is a sober and intelligent film with fine performances, including Audie Murphy as Hepburn’s bigoted brother, Lillian Gish as the family matriarch, and Burt Lancaster as the family’s eldest son whose monomaniacal drive to protect his loved ones rivals that of The Searchers’ Ethan Edwards.
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