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The Quick and the Dead (1987)

TV Movie  |  Not Rated  |   |  Western  |  28 February 1987 (USA)
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A mysterious stranger rides into a homesteading family's life when they are attacked by a ruthless gang.

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Joy the Blacksmith
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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. Written by John Hitchcock

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The cast rehearsed for a week prior to the shooting of the movie. See more »

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When Red goes off by himself to check out the McKaskels camp he is told by Doc that if they hear a shot they would know he" bought the farm". Bought the farm is an expression that was not used until WW1. See more »

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Con Vallian: I work hard, every day of my life, just stayin' alive.
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"The meek ain't gonna' inherit nothing west of Chicago!"
31 July 2011 | by (The Lonesome Prairie) – See all my reviews

Mysterious gunslinger Sam Elliot becomes a guardian angel to genteel easterners Kate Capshaw, Tom Conti, and their young son, who've unwittingly attracted the attention of a particularly nasty gang of cutthroats.

A simple story with lots of violence, there isn't much to ponder here. However, it's always a lot of fun to watch Elliot shoot and drawl his way through a made-for-television western. Matt Clark and Patrick Kilpatrick always make good villains as well.

One thing that made me kind of uneasy though, was watching Elliot's character's almost constant drooling over the married Kate Capshaw, often times in full view of her husband and son!

On a side note, I miss these old HBO Pictures of the eighties and nineties, before they became all political, all boring, all the time.
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