The Quick and the Dead is a 1963 English-language Action Drama movie written by Sheila Lynch and Robert Totten. The movie is directed by Robert Totten. The Quick and the Dead was produced under the production house Manson Corporation. In 1944 a patrol of American soldiers, after having been driven off their observation post by German troops, tries to make it back through enemy-occupied territory to the safety of their own lines with a partisan girls, and with the Germans in hot pursuit. The quick and the dead features Larry D. Mann, Victor French, Jon Cedar, Stuart Nisbet, Majel Barrett, Louis Massad and Pat Cardi. The Quick and the Dead was made on a budget of $32 million and at the box office it grossed only $18 million. Distribution rights for the movie were acquired by Beckman Film Corporation.