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The Quick and the Dead is a american film of genre Drama directed by Robert Day released in USA on 28 february 1987 with Sam Elliott
The Quick and the Dead (1987)
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Add to a movie listThe Quick and the Dead is a 1987 television movie, based on the 1973 novel by Louis L'Amour, directed by Robert Day and starring Sam Elliott, Tom Conti, Kate Capshaw, Kenny Morrison and Matt Clark.
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Duncan McKaskel (Tom Conti) and his wife, Susanna (Kate Capshaw), a married couple who, along with their 12 year old son, Tom (Kenny Morrison), are travelling West hoping to start a new life. They have left a cholera-stricken wagon train and, alone, arrive in a small delapidated town. Here, they meet no-good Doc Shabbitt and ask for directions. He suggests they stay in a deserted local building, but McKaskel senses danger and they leave. Shabbit decides to steal two of their horses.Actors
Sam Elliott
(Con Villian)
Hardy Rawls
(Joy the Blacksmith)
Tom Conti
(Duncan McKaskel)
Kate Capshaw
(Susanna McKaskel)
Del Shores
(Purdy Mantle)
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