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Wild Wild West

Year:

1999

Duration:

106 min

Genres:

Action | Western | Comedy | Sci-Fi

IMDB rate:

4.8

Director:

Barry Sonnenfeld

Awards:

10 wins & 11 nominations

Details

Country: USA

Release Date: 1999-06-30

Filming Locations: Santa Clarita, California, USA

Earnings

Budget: $170,000,000

Opening Weekend: $49,705,055 (USA) (4 July 1999)

Gross: $113,745,408 (USA) (3 October 1999)

Cast

Actor

Character

Salma Hayek

Wild Wild West

Bai Ling

Wild Wild West

Will Smith

Capt. James West

Kevin Kline

U.S. Marshal Artemus Gordon

Kenneth Branagh

Dr. Arliss Loveless

M. Emmet Walsh

Coleman

Ted Levine

General 'Bloodbath' McGrath

Frederique Van Der Wal

Amazonia

Musetta Vander

Munitia

Sofia Eng

Miss Lippenrieder

Garcelle Beauvais

Belle

Mike H. McGaughy

Big Reb (as Mike McGaughy)

Jerry Wills

Other Reb

Rodney A. Grant

Hudson

Buck Taylor

Cross-Eyed Reb

E.J. Callahan

Mr. Pinkerton

Debra Christofferson

Dora Look-Alike

James Lashly

Reb #1

Dean Rader-Duval

Reb #2

Christian Aubert

French Dignitary

Orestes Matacena

Spanish Dignitary

Ian Abercrombie

British Dignitary

Ismael 'East' Carlo

Mexican Dignitary

Bob Rumnock

White House Aide

Gary Carlos Cervantes

Dr. Guillermo Escobar (as Carlos 'Gary' Cervantes)

Jerry Potter

George Washington

Mik Scriba

Guard

Michael Sims

Prof. Thaddeus Morton

Kris Andersson

Dancer (uncredited)

Joseph J. Dawson

Saloon Roughneck (uncredited)

Natalie Fabry

Little Girl (uncredited)

Angelito Felix

Billy (uncredited)

Phil Hawn

Formal Guest at Masquerade Ball (uncredited)

Scott Hislop

Guest at at Masquerade Ball (uncredited)

Erik Hyler

Dancer (uncredited)

David Lea

Thug with Knife

Benee Leavy

String quartet opening shot of the New Orleans Bowl scene (uncredited)

Tiger Mendez

Mexican Military Attache (uncredited)

Ty O'Neal

Living Portrait (uncredited)

Scott Sandler

Young Joe Finnegan (uncredited)

Bret Schweinfurth

Confederate Soldier (uncredited)

Tom Seiler

Southern Colonel (uncredited)

J. Nathan Simmons

Railroad Worker (uncredited)

William Victor Skrabanek

Congressman

Tracy Weisert

Brothel Girl (uncredited)

Jennifer Wellings

Saloon Girl (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

George Clooney was attached to play Artemus Gordon, but turned it down reportedly because it was a supporting part.

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Will Smith has openly said that doing this film instead of the role of Neo in The Matrix is "the biggest mistake of his career" and his life.

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The flying sequence with Will Smith and Kevin Kline was shot with blue screens with the background later added digitally.

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Goofs

It's unlikely that McGrath would have been hypnotized so quickly.

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Loveless' wheeled vehicle was referred to as a tank, but the name "tank" for such a vehicle wasn't coined until the British used it as a cover name in the First World War.

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When Jim West is hanging over the abyss, before the nitro destroys the saloon, you can see human legs between the legs of the horses.

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Quotes

Dr. Arliss Loveless: [after blasting McGrath] Well, I think that concludes this night's festivities. Ladies, feed him to the crabs.

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Capt. James West: That's it, no more Mr. Knife guy.

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Capt. James West: Let me tell you something about your beloved art of disguise, Gordon. That night at Fat Can's, it wasn't a difficult task to tell that you weren't a woman.

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