The Quick and the Dead is a film directed by Sam Raimi, released in 1995. It stars Sharon Stone, Gene Hackman, Russell Crowe, and Leonardo DiCaprio. The script was written by Simon Moore.

Plot summary

The Quick and the Dead follows the course of a gunfighting contest held by John Herod (Hackman), a former bandit now running a small town with the same ruthlessness. This brings in a variety of contestants--outlaws like Herod's henchmen, an adventurer (Keith David), a Swedish champion (Sven-Ole Thorsen), Herod's own son (Di Caprio), and a mysterious woman bent on vengeance. Herod orders that a man named Cort (Crowe), formerly his partner, now retired to a life as a missionary, be brought and forced to compete.

Trivia

In all other Sam Raimi films, the director's trademark 1973 Oldsmobile Delta 88 appears; obviously the car would be anachronistic in this film, but it has been reported that the chassis was removed and used in the construction of a wagon.