I started watching the movie thinking about how idiotic westerns were and wondering how they were ever popular. But it got better as I started to relax and accept it. I turned it on because I had been watching old episodes of The New Adventures of Old Christine and Hamish Linklater was in both. In Dead for a Dollar, he plays a very bad man who hires a bounty hunter to find his (white) wife who had run away with a Black Army deserter. There's a dedication to Budd Boetticher in the closing credits. He made a series of westerns in the 1950s and this movie had some elements of the formula his movies followed. You had a woman who had some monetary value, there being a reward out for her and her being the subject of a ransom demand.
Hamish Linklater was great.
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