The Quick and the Dead
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Image:QuickDead.jpg The Quick and the Dead is a film directed by Sam Raimi, released in 1995. It stars Sharon Stone, Gene Hackman, Russell Crowe, and Leonardo DiCaprio. The script was written by Simon Moore.
Tagline: Think you're quick enough ?
Plot summary
The Quick and the Dead follows the course of a gunfighting contest held by John Herod (Hackman), a former bandit now running a small town with the same ruthlessness. This brings in a variety of contestants--outlaws like Herod's henchmen, an adventurer (Keith David), a Swedish champion (Sven-Ole Thorsen), Herod's own son (Di Caprio), and a mysterious woman bent on vengeance. Herod orders that a man named Cort (Crowe), formerly his partner, now retired to a life as a missionary, be brought and forced to compete.
Trivia
In all other Sam Raimi films, the director's trademark 1973 Oldsmobile Delta 88 appears; obviously the car would be anachronistic in this film, but it has been reported that the chassis was removed and used in the construction of a wagon.
