Trivia

The cash prize of $123,000 being offered for the fastest gun would be worth $2,900,000 in 2009.
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A sex scene between Ellen (Sharon Stone) and Cort (Russell Crowe) was shot, but Stone and director Sam Raimi believed the scene did not fit in with the picture's established reality. The scene was not included in the American release of the film, but international versions do include it.
--Source: The Unseen Force : The Films of Sam Raimi, Page 191

Sharon Stone was given a lengthy list of directors that had been approved to direct this film, so that she could choose the directors she thought would work. She sent back a list with a single name... Sam Raimi. When asked why she chose Raimi, she said it was because she liked Army of Darkness (1992), among Raimi's other works.
--Source: The Evil Dead Companion, Page 164

The original meaning of the word quick was alive. It has now died out except in the phrase the quick and the dead, kept alive by the King James (bible) translation of Acts 10:42, which speaks of Jesus as judge of quick and dead.
--Source: Divine Dialogue: 50 Familiar Phrases From The Bible, Page 82

There are eleven Quick Draw gunfights in the film.

The film takes place around the Mexican Day of the Dead (Dia de los Muertos). The celebration occurs on November 2.

Sharon Stone hand-picked Russell Crowe to be in this film. The studio was initially unsure about this choice because Crowe was a complete unknown to the American audience.

Sharon Stone was so insistent that Leonardo DiCaprio appear in the film that she paid his salary personally.

All of the actors on the set in the gunfight scenes were instructed in the art of the quick draw by a stunt coordinator. Due to his limited screen time, Gene Hackman had the most opportunity to prepare his quick draw and as a result was the fastest actor on the set.

With ten contestants, the chance of a contestant winning all successive shoot-outs are 1023 to 1.

There is a scene where Gene Hackman lightly slaps Sharon Stone. It wasn't scripted and Stone's reaction is real.

John Sayles did on-set rewrites of the film's script during principal photography.

This was the final film of Woody Strode.

This was Russell Crowe's first American feature.