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The Quick And The Dead
1994
Herod is the corrupt mayor of the Western town of Redemption. A haven for lawbreakers of every type. To enforce his position of absolute power he hosts a shootout contest every year with a cash prize for the winner. Herod always wins...until sexy Ellen rides into town with a six-gun on her shapely hip...and burning revenge in .. Read more
| Starring | Sharon Stone, Gene Hackman, Russell Crowe, Roberts Blossom |
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| Director | Sam Raimi |
| Genres | Action/Adventure |
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The Quick And The Dead
Herod is the corrupt mayor of the Western town of Redemption. A haven for lawbreakers of every type. To enforce his position of absolute power he hosts a shootout contest every year with a cash prize for the winner. Herod always wins...until sexy Ellen rides into town with a six-gun on her shapely hip...and burning revenge in her heart.
| Starring | Sharon Stone, Gene Hackman, Russell Crowe, Roberts Blossom, Kevin Conway, Lance Henriksen, Pat Hingle, Gary Sinise, Leonardo DiCaprio |
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| Director | Sam Raimi |
| Studio | UCA |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 43 mins Blu-ray: 1 hr 43 mins |
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| Collections | 100 Wild Westerns |
| Genres | Action/Adventure |
| Language | English |
| Subtitles | Czech, English, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Polish |
| Released | DVD: 12 Oct 1998 Blu-ray: 07 Sep 2009 Production year: 1994 |
| Format | DVD |
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Evil Dead director Sam Raimi brings an overblown energy to every scene as Sharon Stone rides, Clint Eastwood-style, into a town called Redemption to take part in a gunfighting competition presided over by evil Gene Hackman. This homage to the spaghetti westerns of Sergio Leone — a sort of Roman epic with six-guns replacing tridents — is as daft as they come, and the point is rammed home by the cameo casting of Woody Strode, who almost killed Spartacus in 1960. But today, the wacky proceedings will draw an entirely new audience thanks to the presence of Leonardo DiCaprio as the freshest-faced, prettiest gunslinger in town.
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The Western genre taken to a logical conclusion: as a succession of quick-draw contests; the influence here is Sergio Leone, to which the director adds his trademark convulsive camerawork.
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TOP MOVIE !!!
Director Sam Raimi brings his trademark comic book-influenced visual panache to this post-modern Western. Sharon Stone stars as Ellen, a mysterious female gunslinger who arrives in the frontier hamlet of Redemption for a contest pitting quick-draw artists against each other. The event is the brainchild of Redemption's evil, corrupt mayor, Herod (Gene Hackman), a criminal who has taken over the town and charges a 50% tax on local businesses. The pot for Herod's deadly game has swollen, attracting numerous colorful gunfighters from around the territory. As each battle thins the ranks of players, the pasts of several participants are revealed. Ellen is seeking revenge on Herod for a heinous past injustice. The fast-talking braggart known as 'The Kid' (Leonardo DiCaprio) may in fact be Herod's son. The pacifist Reverend Cort (Russell Crowe), who refuses to participate in the bloodshed, is the fastest draw in the West and a former colleague of Herod's. After several spectacular slayings, Ellen and Herod stage a final showdown, but not before he has made her an unexpected proposal. The Quick and the Dead (1995) is dedicated to veteran Western actor Woody Strode, who appears in a cameo as Redemption's coffin maker, his final performance.
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The Quite Good, Bad and Ugly
Somehow it seems a little pointless making a Western now: Eastwood's Unforgiven pretty much seems the last word on the genre. Still, it seems some folks are determined to try, so here's Sam Raimi's attempts. So, if there's nothing new to say, if people have seen it all before, what's left to do? Well, you get all post-modern, clever, ironic and all that. Hence this, a 'homage' to Sergio Leone. The film teems over with references to the great Italian. The plot is lifted wholesale from Once Upon a Time in the West (except it's not as shocking). You have your classic EXTREME CLOSE-UPS of people facing off in a gunfight (except in Leone, people seem sweaty and smelly. Here, it's Leo Di Caprio in full hollywood make up.) You also get a Morricone-lite soundtrack, which keeps threatening to be good but never scales the heights of, say, The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. It's also really arch and knowing and it's got a terrible sex scene. (Hollywood sex scenes always seem more like people fighting than having sex.) But, on the othr hand, it is entertaining, has good actors, but not especially good acting. The normally wonderful Hackman kind of phones it in. But can you blame the actors? If you're going to be all insincere, can you really expect the actors to give their all?
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The Quick And The Dead
Herod is the corrupt mayor of the Western town of Redemption. A haven for lawbreakers of every type. To enforce his position of absolute power he hosts a shootout contest every year with a cash prize for the winner. Herod always wins...until sexy Ellen rides into town with a six-gun on her shapely ...
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