The Unforgiven (1960)

[first lines]
[yelling at a cow eating grass growing on the Zachary family's roof]
Rachel Zachary: Shoo now! Shoo! Ain't you got no better manners than to eat at the top of a house?

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Rachel Zachary: I could marry that handsome, winsome Charlie or that baby Jude. I could even marry you.
Ben Zachary: Watch you language, girl.
Rachel Zachary: Well, why not? We're not cousins. We're not even relatives.
Ben Zachary: We're not even friends.

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[the Zacharys are discussing the rumors about Rachel]
Cash: It's out there, Ben. It's layin' on their stomachs and they don't know what to do.
Ben: Well, it's still a lie and we've got nothin' to be ashamed of.
Cash: What are we goin' to do when one of them says it? What are we goin' to do when one of them says it to Rachel?
Ben: Kill 'em, I guess.
Cash: That's all I wanted to hear.

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Before filming began, director John Huston and star Burt Lancaster took actress Lillian Gish out to the desert to teach her how to shoot, which she would have to do in the film. However, Huston was astounded to discover that Gish could shoot more accurately, and faster, than both he and Lancaster, who thought themselves expert marksmen. It turned out that early in her career Gish was taught how to shoot by notorious western outlaw and gunfighter Al J. Jennings, who had become an actor after his release from a long prison sentence for train robbery and was in the cast of one of her films. She found that she liked shooting and over the years had developed into an expert shot.
"The Unforgiven" was Audrey Hepburn's only Western.
During the filming 'Audie Murphy' and a friend decided to go duck hunting on a nearby lake. The boat capsized and Murphy nearly drowned, but was saved by a female photographer who had been taking pictures nearby.
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