The Quick and the Dead

_**Hackneyed plot with mature insights and surprises**_ RELEASED IN 1987 and directed by Robert Day, "The Quick and the Dead" is a made-for-HBO Western starring Sam Elliott as Con Vallian, a mysterious stranger who helps a family heading West in their conflict with a group of ne'er-do-wells. Vallian's desire is piqued by the wife (Kate Capshaw), is that interest mutual? Will the family make it ...

Why is it that the man who begs for mercy never gives it? The Quick and the Dead is directed by Robert Day and written by Louis L'Amour (novel) and James Lee Barrett (teleplay). It stars Sam Elliott, Tom Conti, Kate Capshaw, Kenny Morrison, Matt Clark and Patrick Kilpatrick. Music is by Steve Dorff and cinematography is by Dick Bush. In 1876 Wyoming, Duncan (Conti) and Suzanna McKaskel (C...