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For detailed information about the amounts and types of (a) sex and nudity, (b) violence and gore, (c) profanity, (d) alcohol, drugs, and smoking, and (e) frightening and intense scenes in this movie, consult the IMDb Parents Guide for this movie. The Parents Guide for Unforgiven can be found here.

Unforgiven is an original screenplay by American screenwriter David Webb Peoples. However, Peoples has admitted that his screenplay was inspired by American author Glendon Swarthout's book The Shootist (1975), a story about an aging gunman with cancer.

Considering that Peoples' screenplay was inspired by The Shootist, which featured a main character loosely based on John Wesley Hardin [1853-1895], the most prolific killer in the West, it's possible that Peoples had Hardin in mind when he created William Munny. Another outlaw that has been mentioned as a possible model for Munny is Cullen Baker.

William Munny [Clint Eastwood] kills Davey Bunting [Rob Campbell]. The Schofield Kid [Jaimz Woolvett] kills Quick Mike [David Mucci], the man who cut up Delilah (Anna Levine]. Then, after Little Bill [Gene Hackman] kills Ned Logan [Morgan Freeman], Munny kills Little Bill and numerous deputies in the riveting conclusion.

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