Portugal Charles Bickford as Zeb Rawlins Lillian Gish as Mattilda Zachary Albert Salmi as Charlie Rawlins Joseph Wiseman as Abe Kelsey June Walker as Hagar Rawlins Kipp Hamilton as Georgia Rawlins Arnold Merritt as Jude Rawlins Doug McClure as Andy Zachary Carlos Rivas as Lost Bird Production The Unforgiven was the final Hecht-Hill-Lancaster (HHL) production. It had a projected budget of $3 million, which expanded to $5.5 million. Original screenwriter JP Miller was replaced by Ben Maddow, original director Delbert Mann was replaced by John Huston, and plans for Richard Burton in the role that eventually went to Audie Murphy were stopped when Burton demanded equal billing with Burt Lancaster, which Lancaster refused. Production was suspended for several months in 1959 after Hepburn broke her back when she fell off a horse while rehearsing a scene. Although she eventually recovered, the accident was blamed for a subsequent miscarriage that Hepburn suffered. According to several published biographies of Hepburn, she blamed herself for the accident and all but disowned the film, although she did complete it when she was well enough to return to work. Hepburn stepped away from acting the next year to give birth to another child, returning to the screen with Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961). Huston battled with HHL, the production company financing the film, because HHL wanted a more commercial and less controversial film, while Huston wanted to make a statement about racism in America. The result was that neither side received exactly what they had wanted. Huston's cinematographer of choice, Oswald Morris, was unavailable, causing Huston to not talk to Morris for several years. John Saxon had signed a three-picture deal with HHL. Scenes featuring Saxon were deleted without the director's consent. The name "Lost Bird" is applied by some Plains Indian tribes to native children adopted by whites. It was popularized by Zintkala Nuni, a Hunkpapa Lakotah survivor of the Wounded Knee Massacre, taken by Leonard Wright Colby and raised by his wife Clara Bewick Colby, whose widely circulated feminist newspaper The Woman's Tribune carried a column on Zintkala for many years. The Lost Bird Society helps to reunite these adopted children with their birth families. Reception In 1968, Stanley Kauffmann of The New Republic described the film as "ludicrous". See also 1960 in film List of American films of 1960 List of Western films References External links The Unforgiven at Audie Murphy Memorial Site