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Bookmark this pageThe Quick and the Dead (1995)
Director: Sam Raimi
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
This engagingly hyperbolic homage to the style and revenge fantasies of the spaghetti Western centres on a deadly tournament - organised by Hackman, boss of a township called Redemption - to find the fastest gun in the West. Enter a motley crew, among them Sharon Stone's Eastwood-like interloper, who has a secret agenda of her own... A deadpan black comedy, Sam Raimi's fast-paced movie looks and sounds like a Leone oater but more so. The violence is heightened by an intelligent, often hilarious use of special effects. Stone, who co-produced, is surprisingly effective in the lead, and Hackman's Herod is wonderfully, unrepentantly villainous. Terrific fun.Author: GA
Cast & crew
Director: Sam Raimi
Producer: Joshua Donen, Allen Shapiro, Patrick Markey
Cast: Sharon Stone, Gene Hackman, Russell Crowe, Leonardo DiCaprio, Lance Henriksen full cast
Genre(s): Westerns
Duration: 108 mins
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