The Quick and the Dead, 25 Years Later

by Ben Miller

When you rewatch Sam Raimi’s The Quick and the Dead, it desperately needs to be contextualized.  Look on the surface and you see four actors with both bonfide acting chops as well as moviestar magnetism.  On top of all that, you have a cavalcade of character actors hamming it up in the background while Raimi pulls out every B-movie trick he knows for an entertaining-as-hell Western.  

All of it all works, but it didn’t in 1995...

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