Dollar for the Dead

Dollar for the Dead - U.S.A. title

Un dólar por los muertos - Spanish title

Un dollar pour un mort - Belgium title

A vida por um dolar - Italian title

Django - ein Dollar fur den Tod - German title

Dolar za Martwego - Polish title

Zloto Poludnia - Polish title

En dollar for de doda Swedish title

Dollar for the Dead - English title

A 1997 U.S.A., Spanish TV co-production [Endermol Entertainment, Once Upon a Time Films

(Hollywood), Turner Network Television (Atlanta), Enrique Cerezo Producciones Cinematograficas S.A. (Madrid)]

Producers: Tony Anthony (Roger Petitto), Enrique Cerezo, Stanley M. Brooks, Scott W. Anderson

Director: Gene Quintano (Eugene Quintano)

Story: Gene Quintano (Eugene Quintano)

Screenplay: Gene Quintano (Eugene Quintano), Imanol Uribe (Imanol Bilbao)

Cinematography: Giovanni Fiore (Giovanni Coltellacci) [CFI Color, widescreen]

Music: George S. Clinton (George Stanley Clinton, Jr.)

Running time: 95 minutes

Cast:

‘Cowboy’ - Emilio Estevez (Emilio Sheen)

Dooley - William Forsythe

Padre Ramon - Joaquim de Almeida

Colonel Skimmer - Jonathan Banks

Reager - Howie Long (Howard Long)

Jacob Colby - Ed Lauter (Edward Lauter II)

Tracker - Lance Kinsey

Young Mexican girl - Leticia Álvarez (Letia de Perea)

Federale Captain - Jordi Mollà (Jordi Perales)

Lopez/Akers - Simón Andreu (Simón Trobat)

Regulators - George Bullock, Álvaro Quiroga (Alvaro Guadilla)

Will - Roger Callard

Julio - Antonio Castro

Gunpowder Bart - Keith Farmer

Sterling - Daniel Martin (Jose Martinez)

Redhead - Beatriz Guevara

Will’s friend - Ignacio Carreño (Ignacio López)

Prison guards - Stephen Jenn, Joan Minguell (Joan Soriano)

Church men - Nacho Leonardi (Ignacio Leonardi), Marc Montserrat

Cantina bartender - Ricardo Palacios (Ricardo Diez)

Toby - Steve Peterson

Reager’s friend - Bill Pickel (William Pickel)

Cowboy’s daughter - Francesca Quintano (Contessa Quintano)

Farmer - Juan Pau Romani

Mexican mother - Imma Ranedo (Ima De Ranedo)

Mexican village boy - Simon Brooks

Blacksmith - Brendan Price

Skimmer henchmen - Juan Manuel Torres Gómez, Joaquín Ortega

With: Stan Brooks (Stanley Brooks), Luis Miguel Arranz, Domingo Beltran (Domingo Sanchez), Salvador Martos, Alessandro Ponti, Juan Manuel Torres (Juan Manuel Gómez), Diego Jiménez Flores, Diego Rodríguez, Rafael Aparicio García

Stunts: Eduardo García, Domingo Beltran, Marc Cass, Juan Manuel Torres (Juan Manuel Gómez), Diego Jiménez Flores, Diego Rodríguez, Ignacio Carreño (Ignacio López), Alejandro Cobo (Alejandro García), Inocencio Losado (Inocencio Silva), Ismael Martinez (Ismael Gonzalez ), Joaquin Olias (Joaquim Mena), Camilo Vila

A gunslinger going by the name ‘Cowboy’ is on the run from a rancher and his men who are out to kill him for killing the rancher’s son. When a former Confederate soldier named Dooley sees firsthand how 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 ex-soldier who has knowledge of a hidden gold cache. Cowboy and Dooley, try to complete a partial map that Dooley and find the gold. There is also Colonel Skinner a Redleg on the tale of Dooley.

When Cowboy and Dooley free a man with part of the map to the gold, they are then pursued byMexican soldiers. It all leads to a small Mexican town terrorized by the soldiers and led a by a good priest who is another one with knowledge of the hidden gold.

Dollar for the Dead was made as a tribute by director Gene Quintano 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 ‘60s, with numerous visual and character references to Sergio Leone's / Clint Eastwood films “Fistful of Dollars”, “The Good, The Bad And The Ugly”, as well as non-Eastwood movies like “Once Upon a Time in the West”, “The Wild Bunch” and “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid”. It was filmed on several of the Spanish locations used by Sergio Leone and a few Spaghetti regulars appear in cameo roles.

“Dollar for the Dead” was a 1998 TNT western television film. Directed and written by Gene Quintano, co-produced with Tony Anthony and starring Emilio Estevez. Film also starred William Forsythe, Joaquim de Almeida, Jonathan Banks, Ed Lauter and Howie Long. Actor Jordi Mollà was nominated for Fotogramas de Plata award.

YouTube Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qm5CqXn-OEA