Movies / The Quick and the Dead (1995)
Runtime: 107 min
Genres: Action Adventure Western
Director Sam Raimi (The Evil Dead) tries gamely to recapture the exotic mysteries of spaghetti Westerns in this stylish but empty film, which stars Sharon Stone as a stranger who comes to the town of Redemption in time for an annual shooting contest. Her real motivations for being there are the stuff that might have found their way into a film by Sergio Leone--in fact, much of this film is a pastiche of Leone's greatest hits, including A Fistful of Dollars and Once upon a Time in America--but one can't quite believe Stone in the role. Gene Hackman gives a predictably solid performance as the town tyrant, and Leonardo DiCaprio is good as a lucky young gunslinger who gets to kiss the heroine. But not even the cast can help this failed project. Raimi brings a lot of razzle-dazzle to his camera work, but it doesn't make the film any more substantial. --Tom Keogh
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Directors (1) | Credit |
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Sam Raimi | ... |
Writers (1) | Credit |
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Simon Moore | (written by) |
Composers (1) | Credit |
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Alan Silvestri | ... |
Editors (1) | Credit |
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Pietro Scalia | ... |
Cinematographers (1) | Credit |
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Dante Spinotti | (director of photography) |
Actors (39) | Credit |
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Arturo Gastelum | Carlos Montoya |
Bruce Campbell | Wedding Shemp (scenes deleted) |
Butch Molina | Saloon Patron |
Cindy Hundt | Bordello Girl (uncredited) |
David Cornell | Simp Dixon |
Fay Masterson | Mattie Silk |
Gary Sinise | Marshall |
Gene Hackman | Herod |
Greg Goossen | Young Herod's Man (as Gregory Goossen) |
James Cotner | Townsman (uncredited) |
Jerry Swindall | Blind Boy |
John Cameron | Bordello Swell |
Jonothon Gill | Spotted Horse |
Josef Rainer | Virgil Sparks |
Keith David | Sgt. Cantrell |
Kevin Conway | Eugene Dred |
Lance Henriksen | Ace Hanlon |
Lennie Loftin | Foy |
Leonardo DiCaprio | Kid |
Mark Boone Junior | Scars |
Matthew Gold | Foy's Boy |
Mick Garris | Young Herod's Man |
Mike Stone | Counselor (as Michael Stone) |
Oliver Dear | Young Herod's Man |
Olivia Burnette | Katie |
Pat Hingle | Horace the Bartender |
Raynor Scheine | Ratsy |
Roberts Blossom | Doc Wallace |
Russell Crowe | Cort |
Scott Ryder | Gunfighter |
Scott Spiegel | Gold Teeth Man |
Sharon Stone | Ellen |
Solomon Abrams | Man on Veranda |
Stacy Linn Ramsower | Young Ellen (as Stacey Ramsower) |
Sven-Ole Thorsen | Gutzon |
Timothy Patrick Quill | Man in Bar |
Tobin Bell | Dog Kelly |
Tony Lee Boggs | Zeb (as Tony Boggs) |
Woody Strode | Charlie Moonlight |