Only 5 Westerns Are Darker Than Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven

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In 1992, Clint Eastwood directed and starred in what many view as his magnum opus, Unforgiven, a revisionist Western that deconstructed the gunslinger myth. Playing the role of William Munny, he brought almost three decades of headlining the genre to a close with a gritty anti-violence story. Although the movie became known as one of the darkest Westerns ever made, a handful stand out as even harder to handle.