Has 3rd billing in this film (Kline, Glenn, Arquette, Cheese, Costner, Dennehy, Glover, Goldblum, Hunt) but Linda Hunt gets more screen time. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy watching Hunt whenever she turns up but it's a pity Arquette's role was so cut down.
shareI agree. I thought her relationships with Emmot and Passenger was weak. She seemed to be more if a dream figure to the men until they realized she wanted to settle down again (she was a widow, after all) and do the hard work of scratching out a homestead.
Linda Hunt won an acting Oscar a couple of years before for aher role in A Year of Living Dangerously. Her role put her in the thick of the events in the town of Silverado.
I happened to have played her husband (Conrad) and her role kept getting cut. Which needless to say she didn't appreciate. I didn't have much choice since I was extremely unknown and just had to bite the bullet. Which my character did literally. However at the time she was more well known than most everyone else in the cast.
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Nifty. Thanks for responding. I've seen this movie many times and her role was relegated to almost nothing. Still...it is such a great movie as-is, probably for the best.
shareOther than Kline and Glenn, everybody is billed alphabetically.
I haven't seen this film in years but always enjoyed it a lot. Arquette's role was pretty small as I remember and I seem to recall that she seemed a little out of place. It does indeed seem that she and her subplot were victims of the cutting room.
I love Linda Hunt's performance in this film.
I think they cut out a lot of her scenes. I remember a screencap showing Arquette carrying a shotgun if I'm not mistaking.
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