Dollar for the Dead

Dollar for the Dead
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Genre	Western
Written by	Gene Quintano
Directed by	Gene Quintano
Starring	Emilio Estevez William Forsythe Howie Long
Theme music composer	George S. Clinton
Country of origin	United States Spain
Original language	English
Production
Producers	Enrique Cerezo Tony Anthony
Cinematography	Giovanni Fiore Coltellacci
Editors	Neil Kirk Michael Marisi Ornstein
Running time	94 minutes
Production companies	Endemol Entertainment Once Upon a Time Films Enrique Cerezo Producciones Cinematográficas S.A.
Original release
Network	TNT
Release	October 11, 1998 (1998-10-11)

Dollar for the Dead is a 1998 American Western television film for TNT. The film was directed and written by Gene Quintano and stars Emilio Estevez. It is the third Western film in which Estevez stars. The film also stars William Forsythe, Joaquim de Almeida, Jonathan Banks, Ed Lauter and Howie Long. Actor Jordi Mollà was nominated for Fotogramas de Plata award.

Dollar for the Dead is often perceived as a tribute to the 1960s Spaghetti Westerns, with a liberal dose of modern Hong Kong film-making thrown in. Emilio Estevez portrays a "Man with No Name" role, stylistically akin to Clint Eastwood's 1960s westerns. The film also portrays an atmosphere similar to those of the 1960s, with numerous visual and character references to Sergio Leone's Dollars Trilogy films A Fistful of Dollars, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, as well as non-Eastwood films such as Once Upon a Time in the West, The Wild Bunch and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

Plot

Lone super-quick gunslinger "nameless" Cowboy (Estevez) is on the run from a rancher (Long) and his men, who are out to kill him for killing the rancher's son. A former Confederate soldier (Forsythe) sees how can Cowboy defend himself, even dropping a drink, pulling and shooting a guy, and catching his drink before it hits the floor. Cowboy gets mixed up with this soldier who has knowledge of hidden gold. So, Cowboy and Dooley, the Soldier tries to complete their map and find the gold because Dooley has only one part of the map. And also Col. Skinner (Redleg commander) on the tale of Dooley.

When Cowboy and Dooley free a man (Lauter) with part of the map to the gold, they then are also pursued by Spanish soldiers. It all leads to a small Mexican town terrorized by soldiers and led a by a good priest (De Almeida) who is another one which has knowledge of the hidden gold.

Cast

• Emilio Estevez as Cowboy
• William Forsythe as Dooley
• Joaquim de Almeida as Friar Ramon
• Jonathan Banks as Colonel Skinner
• Howie Long as Reager
• Ed Lauter as Jacob Colby
• Lance Kinsey as Tracker
• Jordi Mollà as Federale Captain

External links

• Dollar for the Dead at IMDb