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Titles comprise Unforgiven Clint Eastwood and Morgan Freeman play retired down on their luck outlaws who pick up their guns one last time to collect a bounty offered by the vengeful prostitutes of the remote Wyoming town of Big Whiskey Richard Harris is an ill fated interloper a colourful killer for hire called English Bob. Gene Hackman is the sly and brutal local sheriff whose brand of Law enforcement ranges from unconventional to ruthless. Big trouble is coming to Big Whiskey... Pale Rider In Pale Rider Clint Eastwood returned to the saddle after nine years and Western movies were riding high again. After corporate mining boss Coy LaHood Richard Dysart begins a campaign of terror to drive independent pan miners out of the area a nameless stranger called Preacher Eastwood rides into the underdog's camp. He becomes their avenger. The tycoon then hires a badge wearing killer and his duster shrouded deputies men loyal to whoever pays the most. LaHood pays gold. But in a climactic shootout to remember Preacher pays in lead. The Outlaw Josey Wales As the Outlaw Josey Wales Clint Eastwood is ideal as a wary fast drawing loner akin to the Man with No Name from his European Westerns. But unlike that other mythic outlaw Josey Wales has a name and a heart. That heart open up as the action unfolds. After avenging his family's brutal murder Wales is pursued by a pack of killers. He prefers to travel alone but ragtag outcasts are drawn to him and Wales can't bring himself to leave them unprotected. One of the top Westerns ever.
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