

The Quick and the Dead
Think you're quick enough?
A mysterious woman comes to compete in a quick-draw elimination tournament, in a town taken over by a notorious gunman.
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6.6/10
2,076 votes
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $35M
- Box office
- $47M
- Language
- English
- gunslinger
- revenge
- prairie
- shootout
- awestruck
- powerful
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- TheatricalR9 Feb 1995
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical1522 Sept 1995
- Physical154K UHD6 Jan 2025
AustraliaAU
- TheatricalMA 15+15 Jun 1995
BrazilBR
- Theatrical1410 Feb 1995
CzechiaCZ
- Theatrical12+17 Aug 1995
FranceFR
- TheatricalTP21 Jun 1995
- PhysicalVHS4 Jun 1996
- PhysicalDVD22 Sept 1998
- PhysicalBlu-ray9 Sept 2009
- Digital / OTT21 Mar 2012
- Physical4K UHD15 Mar 2022
GermanyDE
- Theatrical169 Nov 1995
GreeceGR
- Theatrical1626 Nov 1998
- Digital / OTTNetflix30 Nov 2018
HungaryHU
- Theatrical163 Aug 1995
IrelandIE
- Theatrical1522 Sept 1995
ItalyIT
- TheatricalT1 Jun 1995
NetherlandsNL
- Theatrical166 Jul 1995
- TV16V814 Jul 2002
- Physical16DVD21 Jul 2007
- Physical16Blu-ray10 Sept 2009
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The Quick and the Dead was released on 9 February 1995.
Audience reviews
4- J6/10
John Chard
5/19/2019
Nice try from Raimi, but ultimately it creeps just above average. The Western is a tough genre to tackle in the modern age, more so when it's post Dances With Wolves and Unforgiven's masterclasses 101. But tackling both these challenges is nothing to the one which director Sam Raimi asks of the audience in his stab at the genre. A female gunslinger is here played by a Hollywood beauty, Sharon Stone, but she i…
- C6/10
CinemaSerf
8/27/2023
Now I saw this in the cinema in 1995 and had somehow managed to completely forget all about it - until I saw it again just last week and realised why. It's not that it is awful, it's just that it is so very derivative and very, very dependant on Gene Hackman ("Herod") who walks a fine line between menace and ham in a none too convincing fashion. He is running a to-the-death gun slinging competition - almost like one …
- W7/10
Wuchak
9/18/2024
**_Mythic Western about a quick-draw contest in a town with an all-star cast_** Sharon Stone stars as a grim, nonchalant woman who, curiously, enters a dueling contest in a remote Southwest desert town "ruled" by outlaw Herod (Gene Hackman). A pacifist preacher is forced by Herod to participate in the contest, but he ain't no conventional minister (Russell Crowe). Other notables include: Leonardo DiCaprio, Lance H…
- D5/10
Dr Nostromo
6/23/2026
51/100 $123,000 is up for grabs to the last person standing in a gunfighter contest in a small, lawless town. An entertaining western that I thought would be far more entertaining. Once the premise is set, the end of the contest is obvious and inevitable so it just becomes a matter of what happens in between. In this case, not a whole lot. It was fun watching all the big names that show up in this film back when t…
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