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This is probably true.
)Dead for a Dollarbegins in characteristically direct fashion.
The year is 1897.
Performances can be uneven.
But Brosnahans delivery has a practiced quality and not always in a way that reflects the character.
The occasional sweeping desert vista notwithstanding, theres an anti-septic, stagy quality to some scenes.
But Hill turns these shortcomings into virtues.
But the asceticism does him good and lends the film a mood that is both elegiac and embittered.
The West of legend, it seems, has passed everyone in this movie by.
All that remains is the dollar.
