| 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 |
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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.[1]
- ^ "Dollar for the Dead (TV Movie 1998)" – via www.imdb.com.