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
