henchman and kills him for harming Cort. Herod confesses that he is afraid of Cort, which is why he forced him to enter the tournament. As a matter of honor, he offers to fight Cort left-handed, but still instructs his henchmen to kill Cort if he wins. At the moment Herod draws, several buildings explode, including Herod's house and the clock tower. Ellen emerges from the smoke and flames, having faked her death with help from Cort and Doc. Cort kills Herod's remaining henchmen while Ellen faces off against Herod, revealing her identity by throwing her father's badge at his feet. Herod wounds Ellen but she shoots him and finishes him off with a bullet to the eye. Tossing the badge to Cort, she says, "The law's come back to town", then saddles up and rides away. Cast Sharon Stone as Ellen "The Lady" Stacy Linn Ramsower as Young Ellen Gene Hackman as John Herod Russell Crowe as Cort Leonardo DiCaprio as Fee "The Kid" Herod Pat Hingle as Horace, The Bartender Kevin Conway as Eugene Dred Keith David as Sergeant Clay Cantrell Lance Henriksen as "Ace" Hanlon Mark Boone Junior as "Scars" Tobin Bell as "Dog" Kelly Raynor Scheine as Ratsy Lennie Loftin as Foy Fay Masterson as Mattie Silk Olivia Burnette as Katie Roberts Blossom as "Doc" Wallace Gary Sinise as The Marshal Sven-Ole Thorsen as "Swede" Gutzon David Cornell as "Simp" Dixon Josef Rainer as Virgil Sparks Arturo Gastelum as Carlos Montoya Scott Spiegel as Gold Teeth Man Woody Strode as Charlie Moonlight Bruce Campbell as Wedding Shemp Jonothon Gill as Spotted Horse Jerry Swindall as The Blind Boy Production Development Writer Simon Moore finished his spec script for The Quick and the Dead in late 1992, writing it as a homage to the Spaghetti Westerns of Sergio Leone, particularly the Dollars Trilogy starring Clint Eastwood. The writer decided the lead character should be a female. "When you introduce women into that kind of world, something very interesting happens and you have an interesting dynamic straight away," Moore commented. The names of the lead villain (Herod) and the town (Redemption) were intentional allusions to the Bible. Moore considered directing his own script as an independent film and shooting The Quick and the Dead on a $3–4 million budget in either Spain or Italy. Sony Pictures Entertainment purchased Moore's script in May 1993 and approached Sharon Stone to