GUNFORGIVEN

UNFORGIVEN (1992)
w: Clint Eastwood

GUNFORGIVEN
Cracked #278, January 1993
w: Lou Silverstone
a: Walter Brogan

A prostitute's face was slashed when she made mocked a client, Quick Mike, for his small penis. The sheriff of the town, Little Bill (Gene Hackman) takes away his horse and that of his brother Davey Bunting as punishment. Her co-workers don't think this is punishment enough and have offered a bounty on the two of them. He has a strict no-gun policy in his town.

Elsewhere, a bounty hunter who calls himself “The Schofield Kid” (Jaimz Woolvett) aims to bring in the criminals and seeks the aid of Will Munny (Clint Eastwood), a famous bounty hunter, to help. Will is now retired from the game and raising children on his own, but realizes he must go back into it because he needs the money. Ned Logan (Morgan Freeman), another ex-bounty hunter is also recruited, and it is revealed the Kid can't see.

Clint Eastwood's child is supposed to be Macaulay Culkin. It took another reading to get that.

Back in Big Whiskey, the town run by Little Bill, English Bob (Richard Harris) has come in with his biographer W. W. Beauchamp (Saul Rubinek) seeking the bounty and telling tall tales. Little Bill can't tolerate everyone coming in and breaking the no-gun laws of his town, and kicks English Bob out. The trio of bounty hunters is about to enter.S

The L.A. Police joke refers to the Rodney King incident, a police brutality incident easily Googlable.
Our trio goes to the saloon in Big Whiskey. Not realizing Will's identity but correctly guessing that he wants the bounty, Bill confiscates his pistol and beats him. Ned and the Kid escape through a back window and take Will to an unoccupied barn outside of town,. After missing Davey (Rob Campbell) and hitting his horse, Ned falters and Will shoots Davey instead. Ned decides to quit. He's later captured and flogged to death by Little Bill to learn the whereabouts of Will and the Kid.

“Do you pick your feet in Poughkeepsie” was one of the questions used by Gene Hackman's character when gilling suspects in The French Connection

Will takes the Kid with him to the cowboys' ranch, directing him to ambush Quick Mike (David Mucci) in the outhouse and shoot him. After they escape, a distraught Kid drunkenly confesses he had never killed anyone before and hands the revolver over, saying that he no longer wants to be a killer. Will sends him back with the reward. That night, Will finds Ned's corpse displayed in a coffin outside Skinny's saloon as a warning to bounty hunters. Inside, Little Bill and his deputies are organizing a posse. Will walks in alone, brandishing a shotgun and kills Skinny for displaying Ned's corpse. He then takes aim at Little Bill, only for the shotgun to misfire. Will shouts threats as he mounts his horse and rides out of town. Then there's a prophetic title card.