The Quick and the Dead

1987

Drama / Western

12
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 61% · 1 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 61% · 250 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.9/10 10 3034 3K

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Director

Robert Day Photo
Robert Day

Top cast

Sam Elliott Photo
Sam Elliott as Con Vallian
Kate Capshaw Photo
Kate Capshaw as Susanna McKaskel
Tom Conti Photo
Tom Conti as Duncan McKaskel
Kurt D. Lott Photo
Kurt D. Lott as Lenny Shabitt
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830.3 MB
960*720
English 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 30 min
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1.5 GB
1440*1080
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 30 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by FightingWesterner 7 / 10

"The meek ain't gonna' inherit nothing west of Chicago!"

Mysterious gunslinger Sam Elliot becomes a guardian angel to genteel easterners Kate Capshaw, Tom Conti, and their young son, who've unwittingly attracted the attention of a particularly nasty gang of cutthroats.A simple story with lots of violence, there isn't much to ponder here. However, it's always a lot of fun to watch Elliot shoot and drawl his way through a made-for-television western. Matt Clark and Patrick Kilpatrick always make good villains as well.One thing that made me kind of uneasy though, was watching Elliot's character's almost constant drooling over the married Kate Capshaw, often times in full view of her husband and son!On a side note, I miss these old HBO Pictures of the eighties and nineties, before they became all political, all boring, all the time.
Reviewed by AlsExGal 7 / 10

HBO film based on a Louis L'amour tale...

...with Tom Conti and Kate Capshaw as settlers in post-Civil War Wyoming. They, along with their young son (Kenny Morrison), run into a band of outlaws and cutthroats led by the deceptively-avuncular Doc Shabbit (Matt Clark). The family seem doomed until the intervention of the mysterious Con Vallain (Sam Elliott), who escorts the family across hostile territory.Director Robert Day tells the story competently and in a straightforward fashion, with no stylistic excess. Elliott is well-cast, as is Conti as the kindly war veteran suspicious of Elliott's motives, as well his attention toward his wife. Capshaw looks nice, but her performance is spotty. She seems to adopt a period-specific speech pattern in many scenes that is admirable in its intent, but questionable as the others in the cast don't attempt the same. Still, I enjoyed this minor film well enough, and would recommend it to western fans.
Reviewed by MBunge 7 / 10

Sam Elliott was born too late

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