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Synopsis: Ellen, an unknown female gunslinger rides into a small, dingy and depressing prairie town with a secret as to her reason for showing up. Shortly after her arrival, a local preacher, Cort, is thrown through the saloon doors while townfolk are signing up for a gun competition. The pot is a huge sum of money and the only rule: that you follow the rules of the man that set up the contest, Herod. Herod is also the owner, leader, and "ruler" of the town. Seems he's arranged this little gun-show-off so that the preacher (who use to be an outlaw and rode with Herod) will have to fight again. Cort refuses to ever use a gun to kill again and Herod, acknowledging Cort as one of the best, is determined to alter this line of thinking ... even if it gets someone killed ...
Director(s): Sam Raimi
Production: Sony Pictures Entertainment
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
6.4
Metacritic:
49
Rotten Tomatoes:
56%
R
Year:
1995
107 min
1,862 Views


We'll see.

-String him up.

-Let's get him outside!

No, in here. On the chair.

We're gonna adjust your collar,

Reverend.

Sh*t, come on. Pull him up, Foy.

Let me make it clear.

-l want you in that contest.

-No.

Think about it.

Last chance.

-Yes or no?

-Go to hell.

Sign me up!

No women in quick draw.

It's against the rules!

There's no rule against ladies.

It's just that women can't shoot

for sh*t.

That's right.

Adios, Reverend.

-Put them both in the contest.

-Free drinks for all fighters!

Move it, preacher.

Let's chain him up out by the fountain.

-Come back here!

-No!

You come here now!

Do you hear me?

Daddy!

Hey, good morning.

Seems like you definitely had

a good time last night.

Want some breakfast?

-Or how about a little...

-Christ.

...of what we had last night?

Yeah, you certainly won that

drinking contest, that's for sure.

Then again, l sort of won you in poker.

Look.

The last thing l remember

was you puking and passing out...

...behind the saloon,

so let's not plan the wedding yet.

All right, all right.

This thing is so hard.

I don't know how you sleep on it.

If l don't sleep on it,

people will steal it.

-So who you gonna challenge today?

-Herod.

Bad idea. Bad idea.

I'm about the only guy who can take

him, and l ain't gonna rush to do that.

Well, why not?

Well, hell, he's my father.

You been challenged to a fight yet?

You have now.

I'll go get you some time.

These are my boys.

They don't get to church much.

Daddy's gonna kill you, preacher!

-Get him! Get him!

-l hate you!

-Daddy! Daddy!

-Daddy!

-Sleep well?

-Not as well as you.

In case you forgot, preacher,

I saved your life last night.

No. I think you just stretched it out

a bit.

I might have gone to heaven

if you let me die.

Sorry.

Don't you even wanna fight back?

Of course I do.

I'd like to kill them all

for what they've done. But l won't.

Killing people is wrong.

Some people deserve to die.

Mr. Herod, it was

a little lean this week.

And the whisky was tight.

Horace, your excuses

are getting worse every week.

I took everything out of

the register, sir. Everything.

-That's all there was.

-Barkeep.

There you are.

I challenge you.

I'm not fighting you.

-You ain't got no choice.

-l told you!

What are you doing here?

I said, what are you doing here?

-I'm here for the money.

-Then you have to play by the rules.

And the rules say you have to

accept every challenge.

You got a problem with that,

scuttle your butt out of town.

I got no problem.

The lady fights Mr. Kelly.

And they fight at 7:00 tonight.

-Pick a card, honey.

-Thank you.

He's so hot.

Hold it up.

Ace of spades.

Thank you.

That's a neat trick.

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