The Quick and the Dead (1987 film)

The Quick and the Dead is a 1987 television movie, based on the 1973 novel by Louis LAmour, directed by Robert Day and starring Sam Elliott, Tom Conti, Kate Capshaw, Kenny Morrison and Matt Clark.

Con Vallian is chasing a halfbreed Indian, the latest recruit to Shabbits gang who, it transpires, Vallian has tracked for hundreds of miles for personal reasons. Vallian witnesses the homesteaders encounter with Shabbit and turns up at the McKaskels wagon during supper. He advises them their horses have been stolen. Against Susannas advice, Duncan rides into town and tries to reclaim the horses. An intense gunfight ensues when Vallian, who has secretly followed him, shoots some of the Shabbit gang. When Doc Shabbitt finds that his son, who was about to shoot McKaskel in the back, has been killed, he vows to pursue the family and seek revenge.Susanna, Duncan, and Tom flee in their covered wagon, trying to keep ahead of the open p. Vallian keeps arriving to help protect them from Shabbitt and his gang. As time passes, Vallian manages to kill the bandits one by one. The remaining four keep up their pursuit. Vallian is obviously attracted to Susanna, and she to him. Following a moment of high drama, she succumbs to his advances and they share a passionate kiss. McKaskel never learns of the kiss, but tells Vallian, who is critical of his apparent pacifism, to back off several times. In an encounter with Indians, Susanna learns that her brother, an army officer, has likely been killed at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. ........

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