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The Quick and the Dead

  • TV Movie
  • 19871987
  • Not RatedNot Rated
  • 1h 31m
IMDb RATING
6.9/10
2.2K
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The Quick and the Dead (1987)
  • Western
A mysterious stranger rides into a homesteading family's life when they are attacked by a ruthless gang.A mysterious stranger rides into a homesteading family's life when they are attacked by a ruthless gang.A mysterious stranger rides into a homesteading family's life when they are attacked by a ruthless gang.
IMDb RATING
6.9/10
2.2K
YOUR RATING
  • Director
    • Robert Day
  • Writers
    • Louis L'Amour(novel)
    • James Lee Barrett(teleplay)
  • Stars
    • Sam Elliott
    • Tom Conti
    • Kate Capshaw
Top credits
  • Director
    • Robert Day
  • Writers
    • Louis L'Amour(novel)
    • James Lee Barrett(teleplay)
  • Stars
    • Sam Elliott
    • Tom Conti
    • Kate Capshaw
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 28User reviews
    • 2Critic reviews
  • See production, box office & company info
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 2 nominations

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    Sam Elliott, Kate Capshaw, and Tom Conti in The Quick and the Dead (1987)
    The Quick and the Dead (1987)
    Matt Clark and Patrick Kilpatrick in The Quick and the Dead (1987)
    Sam Elliott in The Quick and the Dead (1987)
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    Kate Capshaw in The Quick and the Dead (1987)
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    Patrick Kilpatrick in The Quick and the Dead (1987)
    Patrick Kilpatrick in The Quick and the Dead (1987)

    Top cast

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    Sam Elliott
    Sam Elliott
    • Con Vallianas Con Vallian
    Tom Conti
    Tom Conti
    • Duncan McKaskelas Duncan McKaskel
    Kate Capshaw
    Kate Capshaw
    • Susanna McKaskelas Susanna McKaskel
    Kenny Morrison
    • Tom McKaskelas Tom McKaskel
    Matt Clark
    Matt Clark
    • Doc Shabittas Doc Shabitt
    Patrick Kilpatrick
    Patrick Kilpatrick
    • The Uteas The Ute
    Jerry Potter
    • Red Hayleas Red Hayle
    Billy Streater
    • Ike Mantleas Ike Mantle
    Del Shores
    Del Shores
    • Purdy Mantleas Purdy Mantle
    R.L. Tolbert
    • Johnny Dobbsas Johnny Dobbs
    Jeffrey Meyer
    • Butcher McCloudas Butcher McCloud
    • (as Jeffrey M. Meyer)
    Kurt D. Lott
    Kurt D. Lott
    • Lenny Shabittas Lenny Shabitt
    Hardy Rawls
    Hardy Rawls
    • Joy the Blacksmithas Joy the Blacksmith
    Larry Sellers
    Larry Sellers
    • Running Wolfas Running Wolf
    Bill Stedman
    • Bartenderas Bartender
    • Director
      • Robert Day
    • Writers
      • Louis L'Amour(novel)
      • James Lee Barrett(teleplay)
    • Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
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    Storyline

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    Duncan and Susanna McKaskel are a young married couple travelling to the West with their son, hoping to start a new life. Along the way, they stop in a small town where they meet a gang of bandits led by Doc Shabitt. After Duncan unintentionally angers the gang, he and Susanna flee the town, but Shabitt leads his men in pursuit of revenge. A mysterious stranger by the name of Con Vallian soon begins helping the family as they try to find a new home and protects them from Shabitt's gang. —John Hitchcock
    • holed up in shack
    • man with no name
    • mysterious stranger
    • stranger
    • mysterious
    • 48 more
    • Plot summary
    • Plot synopsis
    • Genre
      • Western
    • Certificate
      • Not Rated
    • Parents guide

    Did you know

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    • Trivia
      Sam Elliott did all of his own stunts.
    • Goofs
      A log cabin in the mountain wilderness in the late 1870s would not have had glass panes in the windows.
    • Quotes

      Con Vallian: Why is it that the man who begs for mercy never gives it?

    User reviews28

    Review
    Top review
    6/10
    A Hondo like hero
    Sam Elliott who is doing his level best to keep the western alive as an American art form stars in The Quick And The Dead which has nothing to do with the film Sharon Stone, Gene Hackman, and Leonardo DiCaprio did. But it has one great western pedigree as the story is from the pen of Louis L'Amour.

    In fact there are some elements in this story that are most similar to L'Amour's most famous western Hondo. Although Sam Elliott isn't quite the G-rated cowboy John Wayne was.

    Tom Conti, Kate Capshaw and their son Kenny Morrison are traveling west to settle and work the homestead that Conti's late brother had in Wyoming territory. But they run afoul of some outlaws led by Matt Clark and the outlaws mean to them harm.

    If you remember in Hondo the mutual attraction of the frontier scout and the settler's wife who is waiting for her husband to get home. That's going on big time here only Conti is very much on the scene. Elliott thinks him a worthless tenderfoot at first, but Conti's character develops over the course of the film and the more you see, the more you realize there's a lot to him. A lot more than there was to Leo Gordon in Hondo.

    Nice location cinematography in Arizona standing in for Wyoming territory. The roles are well cast and cowboy heroes don't come any better than Sam Elliott.
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    • bkoganbing
    • Jan 26, 2017

    Details

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    • Release date
      • February 28, 1987 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Er kam aus der Sonne
    • Filming locations
      • Wupatki National Monument - 25137 Sunset Crater-Wupatki Loop Road, Flagstaff, Arizona, USA
    • Production companies
      • HBO Pictures
      • Home Box Office (HBO)
      • Joseph Cates Company
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    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 31 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.33 : 1

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