Plot
The Zacharys are a thriving and respected family on the Texas frontier. Father Will Zachary was killed by Kiowa Indians, leaving his oldest son Ben (Burt Lancaster) as the head of the family. Both Ben and his mother Mattilda (Lillian Gish) are very protective of the Zacharys' adopted daughter, Rachel (Audrey Hepburn), while her other brothers, Cash (Audie Murphy) and Andy (Doug McClure), treat her as they would any sister. The family is supported by their closest neighbor, Zeb Rawlins (Charles Bickford), the patriarch of a racist family, whose shy son Charlie (Albert Salmi) wants to marry Rachel. Ben, long aware that she is not actually his sister, loves Rachel and is reluctant.
Ranchers from all around gather to prepare for a cattle drive to Wichita, Kansas. An old man believed to be crazy, Abe Kelsey (Joseph Wiseman), hides in the brush nearby after claiming that Rachel Zachary is an Indian. Ben and Cash, believing the story to be a vengeful lie, try to kill Kelsey. They manage to unhorse him but he soon steals a horse from them. A small group of Kiowa appears one night, led by Lost Bird, offering to trade horses to Ben in return for Rachel, claiming that he has been told by an old white man that she is actually his sister. Soon after, the Kiowa kill Charlie while he is returning to his ranch from courting Rachel, and in her grief Charlie's mother accuses Rachel of being a "dirty Injun." Ben leads the ranchers in tracking down Kelsey and bringing him back to the Rawlins ranch to be hanged as a horse thief.
With a noose around his neck, Kelsey tells the gathered ranchers that, on a retaliatory raid against the Kiowa led by himself and Will Zachary, he found a baby and was about to kill it when Will, sick of all the killing, intervened and took the baby for his own. Kelsey claims that his own son was captured by the Kiowa and demanded that Will return Rachel in exchange for his son, but was refused. Ben tells them that Kelsey's son was actually killed in the fighting, but that Kelsey refused to believe it, inventing the story as justification for vengeance against the Zacharys. Kelsey followed them from town to town, poisoning the minds of people wherever they moved. Mattilda reacts to Kelsey's rant by striking the horse Kelsey is on, causing him to be hanged. This convinces Zeb of the truthfulness of Kelsey's story, and he and all of the ranchers turn their backs on the Zacharys.
Back at their own homestead, Mattilda admits to her family that Will had taken the Kiowa baby and brought it to her to replace an infant daughter they had just lost. Cash, unable to deal with his sister being a "red-hide nigger," abandons the family. The Kiowa return in force, demanding Rachel, who tries to save her family by going over to the Kiowa. To stop her from doing so, Ben deliberately breaks the truce by killing a Kiowa, forcing a fight to the finish. Mattilda is killed during the fighting that follows. Just as the family, almost out of ammunition, is about to be overwhelmed, Cash returns and turns the tide. Rachel, protecting a wounded Andy and aware that Ben loves her, is confronted by her Kiowa brother but kills him, thus choosing sides once and for all.
from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unforgiven_(1960_film)
Cast
Bart Lancaster as Ben Zachary バート・ランカスター
Audrey Hepburn as Rachel Zachary オードリー・ヘプバーン
Audie Murphy as Cash Zachary オーディ・マーフィ
John Saxon as Johnny Portugal ジョン・サクソン
Charles Bickford as Zeb Rawlins チャールズ・ピックフォード
Lillian Gish as Mattilda Zachary リリアン・ギッシュ
昨日はちょっと忙しかったので、更新することができませんでした。今日はきちんと書きたいと思います。
今日紹介する作品は1960年公開の「許されざる者」。1992年にジーン・ハックマン主演の同名の映画が公開されていますが全く関係ありません。本作品の監督はジョン・ヒューストン。主演はバート・ランカスターとオードリー・ヘプバーン。オードリが出演した映画の中で西部劇は本作品が唯一です。
インディアンだとされたレイチェル。そのせいでザカリー家は孤立。カイオワ族がレイチェルを取り戻しにザカリー家を襲撃するといった内容の映画ですかね。西部劇というジャンルはよく聞きますが、」具体的にどういうものかというとアメリカ西部開拓時代の主にフロンティアと呼ばれた未開拓地域を舞台にした映画です。西部開拓時代とは19世紀、特に1860年代から1890年のフロンティア消滅するまでを指します。
ザカリー家の母親を演じているのはリリアン・ギッシュ。ギッシュはサイレント映画時代の1910年代から映画に出演しており90歳を超えても映画に出演していました。女優歴は70年以上にも登る大女優です。
この映画はネイティブアメリカン、インディアンに対して差別的だと問題になりました。ヒューストン監督自身も最悪の映画だと行っているほどです。
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