The Quick and the Dead

Genre: Western

Worldwide gross$47.0M

Ellen, an unknown female gunslinger rides into a small, dingy and depressing prairie town with a secret as to her reason for showing up. Shortly after her arrival, a local preacher, Cort, is thrown through the saloon doors while townfolk are signing up for a gun competition. The pot is a huge sum of money and the only rule: that you follow the rules of the man that set up the contest, Herod. Herod is also the owner, leader, and "ruler" of the town. Seems he's arranged this little gun-show-off so that the preacher (who use to be an outlaw and rode with Herod) will have to fight again. Cort refuses to ever use a gun to kill again and Herod, acknowledging Cort as one of the best, is determined to alter this line of thinking ... even if it gets someone killed ...

🏆 1 nomination total

Genres

Action, Drama, Romance

Director

Sam Raimi

Cast

Sharon Stone, Gene Hackman, Russell Crowe

Released

10 February 1995

Runtime

1h 48m

Certificate

R

IMDb rating

6.5 / 10

Votes

112,245

Metascore

49

Rotten Tomatoes

62%

Box office

$18,636,537

Budget

$35,000,000

Edition

Base