Dead for a Dollar

Dead for a Dollar is a 2022 American western action thriller film written and directed by Walter Hill.

He tells Borlund that Rachel was abducted and is being held for ransom in Chihuahua, Mexico by Elijah Jones, an African American army deserter.

The officer assigns one of his men, Sergeant Alonzo Poe, to assist Borlund as he was a close friend of Jones and has a map to his hideout, after agreeing to deliver the ransom money.

En route, the two men run afoul of Tiberio Vargas, a rich landowner who moonlights as a vicious bandit.

Borlund and his party reach a small border town, where the local police captain agrees to incarcerate Jones and send a telegram to Martin informing him that Rachel has been found.

She believes that her husband, humiliated by a black man running off with his wife, has no intention of taking her back home alive.

When Martin arrives, he bribes the captain's corrupt deputy to cover for him while he shoots Jones dead in his cell.

Rachel and her husband reunite and Martin admits that he paid Vargas off to rape and kill her, hoping to sell her death as a story to the newspapers to boost his political ambitions.

[11] On October 26, 2021, actor Shawn-Caulin Young filed a grievance against stunt coordinator and second unit director Allan Graf.

In a statement, the production said Young had worked on the set for only one day—August 2, 2021—and that they "strongly deny any allegation that safety requirements were not fully met and adhered to at all times."

According to Young, he was supposed to work for two days but was not brought back on set after asking for a pay raise; McMaster also disputed this claim.

The website's consensus reads: "There are certainly worse Westerns, but with Walter Hill behind the camera and a killer cast reporting for duty, Dead for a Dollar should have higher entertainment value.

"[17] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 61 out of 100, based on 17 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.

Walter Hill at the Munich International Film Festival in Munich, Germany.
Writer-director Walter Hill