LITTLE BILL DAGGETT
Gene Hackman
Unforgiven (1992)
Hackman won an Oscar as the morally ambiguous Little Bill, a sheriff who wants no violence in his town, and who'll go to violent lengths to keep gunslingers out. In an older Western, he might have been the hero, but because he sparks a Jacobean cycle of bloody vengeance — one that turns putative hero William Munny (Clint Eastwood) back into the cold-blooded killer he used to be — he's Unforgiven's heavy. ''I don't deserve this,'' he complains, as Munny is about to shoot him. ''Deserves got nothing to do with it,'' Munny replies. —Gary Susman
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