Posted on 07/14/2018 8:19:28 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax
Sam Raimi's The Quick and the Dead is an interesting yarn featuring some tight writing and fine performances from an ensemble of very good thespians. It also sports a really good 4K HDR transfer that makes it even better.
The Western drama stars Sharon Stone (who also co-produced), Gene Hackman, Russell Crowe and Leonardo DiCaprio. All are, or were, gunslingers who congregate in a nondescript one-horse town called Redemption for a gunfighting competition in which all comers shoot it out with whoever challenges them, the winner taking home a huge pot (well, chest) of money.
Stone is a woman bent on revenge against Hackman, whose character owns the town and everyone in it and who is also the target (figuratively and/or literally) of nearly every other gunslinger who shows up. Well, some are just there for the money, but Hackman's character is such a horrible person that it seems as if everyone wants him dead - and if they didn't want him dead when they got to Redemption, they undoubtedly did once they'd stuck around a bit.
And with good reason! If you thought Hackperson's character as the sheriff in Unforgiven was a nasty guy, "Quick'n'Dead's" John Herod makes Little Bill Daggett look like a saint!
Stone's Ellen (a.k.a. "the lady") arrives in Redemption on the eve of the Big Gun Fight, when they're putting together the "pecking order" for the contest. Besides Hackman, she's joined by Leonardo DiCaprio's "the Kid", Russell Crowe as a former gunman and associate of Herod who has seen the error of his ways and turned preacher but gets forced into the event by Herod. Also along for the high calibre contest are gunslingers played by such journeyman performers as Keith David and Lance Henriksen.
Also on hand in supporting roles...
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It’s also very handy to know the cast members if you’re playing “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon”.
I appreciate your reply especially the tidbit of wisdom thrown in with the last sentence.
What’s this 4K thing? Will that play in a regluar blue ray disc player?
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