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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD Brand: Warner Brothers EAN: 9780790777665 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC ISBN: 0790777665 Label: Warner Home Video Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Warner Home Video Region Code: 1 Release Date: June 01, 2004 Running Time: 91 minutes Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: February 28, 1987 Sales Rank: 4405 MPN: WARD24586D
Description: In 1876 Wyoming, the gun is the only law. And for Duncan and Susanna McKaskel (Tom Conti and Kate Capshaw), newly arrived settlers beset by outlaws, rugged frontiersman Con Vallian (Sam Elliott) is the only hope. From the book by famed Western author Louis L'Amour, THE QUICK AND THE DEAD is a rousing adventure. It shares tried-and-true ingredients of those sagebrush sagas: a tale of peaceable folk driven to action under the guidance of a mysterious stranger.
Amazon.com: Not to be confused with Sam Raimi's flamboyantly stylized Western of the same name, this made-for-cable adaptation of the Louis L'Amour novel is a lean, taut pioneer adventure set in the wilderness of the northern Midwest. Sam Elliott, sporting his trademark bushy mustache and eyebrows so thick they keep the rains off his face, stars as the mountain man and tracker Con Vallian. Tom Conti is Scottish storekeeper Duncan McKaskel bringing his wife Susanna (Kate Capshaw) and son from Pennsylvania to a homestead in Wyoming. When a scraggly gang (led by the wonderfully sleazy Matt Clark) marks the family as an easy target, Vallian makes himself their gruff guardian angel, partly out of attraction to Susanna ("You're a handsome woman," he likes to repeat). Pride, jealousy, and rivalry make Duncan and Vallian uneasy allies and Conti's musical lilt is a marvelous contrast to Elliot's gravely drawl. Capshaw is somewhat colorless but comes to life in a surprising explosion of angry violence. The beautiful landscape culminates in a stunning meadow where the homesteaders find their cabin, a location that must be the closest thing to heaven on Earth, but for the devils still on their trail. --Sean Axmaker
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Great movie
This is going to pure and simple. Anyone who loves Sam Elliot and the western theme will love this movie!!!
Rating: - Hondo/Shane is an Honorable Cuss
The difference between Hondo and Con Vallian is that Vallian doesn't have a dog. Otherwise, they're both soft-talkin' straight-shootin' half-breeds who live outdoors but who like women. The mysterious ... Read More
Rating: - not worth buying...
I bought this film based on Amazon reviews and what a mistake that was! This film is not terrible or even bad but it's certainly nothing special, ho-hum average at best and the storyline is just plain ... Read More
Rating: - The Quick and the Dead
This excellent movie - NOT to be confused with a western parody of the same name with Gene Hackman and many other famous actors in ridiculous situations - is a believable, possibly historic adventure of ... Read More
Rating: - Love this movie
One of my faves...The old west and Sam Elliot together just can't get any better than that. Great movie and great quality
- Great movie
- Hondo/Shane is an Honorable Cuss
- not worth buying...