| DC Showcase: Jonah Hex | |
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| Director: | Joaquim Dos Santos |
| Producer: | Bobbie Page Joaquim Dos Santos |
| Writer(s): | Joe R. Lansdale |
| Release Date: | Batman: Under the Red Hood: July 27, 2010 DC Showcase: November 9, 2010 |
| Running Time: | 12 mins |
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DC Showcase: Jonah Hex is the second animated short film in DC Showcase Original Shorts Collection focused on the character Jonah Hex. It first appeared as a special feature on the Batman: Under the Red Hood Blu Ray.
Plot[]
Red Doc, a man that claims he can take on anyone and anything, arrives in town looking for more booze and more actions and announces himself in a bar. A prostitute comes downstairs and introduces herself to him as Madame Lorraine, soliciting herself to him after hearing his claim. He accepts and one of the bar's other brothel girls looks at them with grave concern as they head back upstairs. Red makes himself comfortable while Lorraine makes herself "decent" and as when she lures him into a false sense of seductivity, she shoots him dead, takes his money, and has two of her henchmen dispose of the body.
The next day, Jonah Hex arrives in town, looking to pick up a $5000 bounty on Red. After taking on a young man who taunts him, Jonah heads into the bar to get whatever information he can from the bartender. The bartender claims to have never seen Red and as he walks away, the same bar girl comes by to say otherwise. After promising her enough money to leave town, the girl explains all he needs to know is Madame Lorraine; a brothel madame who preys on wealthy men that nobody ever sees again after being invited upstairs. Hex lives up to his end of the bargain and buys drinks for the entire saloon to lure Lorraine downstairs attention and joins her upstairs. However, Hex manages to avoid her shot and knocks her out, then proceeds to kill her henchmen. Stepping out of the room, he is shot at by the bartender, whom he kills. He then demands that Lorraine tell him where Red is.
Lorraine takes him to an old mine, and shows him a dark hole that leads to a caved in lower shaft. Hex and her journey down, and it is revealed that Lorraine has killed at least fifteen men. Grabbing a knife, Lorraine tries once more to kill Hex, who punches her and secures Red's body. Lorraine comes to just as Hex has reached the top, kicking down the rope. Lorraine first pleads that they can be partners, then tells Hex he can't leave her. Hex says she has plenty of companions, then departs. Lorraine trembles as she stares at the dead bodies, the only lamp in the shaft slowly going out, leaving her trapped in the dark.
Cast[]
- Thomas Jane as Jonah Hex
- Michelle Trachtenberg as Bar Girl
- Linda Hamilton as Madame Lorraine
- Michael Rooker as Red Doc
- Jason Marsden as Young Man and Bartender