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Butch Lacy covers "Wanted Dead or Alive," a song from Bon Jovi's 1986 album Slippery When Wet. The song was written by Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora and was released in 1987 as the album's third single. The song peaked at #7 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, making it the third single from the album to reach the Top 10 of the Hot 100. Slippery When Wet was the first Hard Rock / Heavy Metal album ever to have 3 top 10 hits on it. It is now also notable for being the theme song for Discovery Channel's Alaskan crab fishing reality series, Deadliest Catch, though the theme song version contains few lyrics, the music is mostly the same. The song is featured as a playable track in the video game Rock Band. This video features a clip from "The Assassination of Jesse James" by the Coward Robert Ford, a 2007 Western drama film adapted from Ron Hansen's 1983 novel of the same name. The film is directed by Andrew Dominik, with Brad Pitt portraying Jesse James and Casey Affleck as Robert Ford. Filming took place in Calgary, Edmonton and Winnipeg. Initially intended for a 2006 release, the film was postponed and re-edited for a September 21, 2007 release. While the film contains representations of historical figures, it notably dramatizes the relationship between James and Ford. The film tells the story of Robert Ford, a seemingly insecure man seen as a coward by those around him. He has grown up idolizing the outlaw Jesse James. He finds James in Missouri and joins his gang, taking part in a train robbery. Gradually, he forms a complex love/hate relationship with James, still admiring him to the point of obsession, but also becoming resentful and somewhat fearful due to James's bullying nature. Even after the gang members have gone their separate ways after the last train robbery, Jesse James takes to calling in on his old gang, killing some of them and terrorising the relatives of others. The film suggests this is because Jesse is convinced they are out to betray him. Ford ends up shooting Wood Hite after he comes to the house looking for Dick Liddel. Wood and Dick had a falling out because Dick defiled Wood's father's wife in Kentucky. In the resulting gunbattle, Ford shoots Wood in the head just as he is about to do the same to Dick. Eventually, Ford and his brother Charles are hired to arrest James by Governor Crittenden. This is not as easy a task as it seems: Charles is too scared of Jesse to raise his gun against him and Jesse proves on more than one occasion that he is never out of reach of his guns. Even when he appears to be asleep, he can awaken at a moment upon hearing the sound of a gun drawn or footsteps. Given these circumstances, Robert decides killing him would be safer. On the day of the shooting, both Ford boys wrestle with task they have been given, especially Charlie. Robert notices a paper on the couch with the headline "The Arrest and Conviction of Dick Liddel" and hides it under a cushion from Jesse. Jesse finds the paper and reads about how he was caught three weeks before and asks Robert if he was in the area. After some silent contemplation, seemingly knowing his time has come and accepting it, Jesse takes his gun belt off. He notices a dusty Picture on the wall then watches in the reflection of the picture as Ford draws his gun and shoots him from behind. After the assassination, Ford becomes a celebrity and ends up in a theatre show, re-enacting the assassination night after night with his brother playing James. However, Charlie becomes tormented by what he's done, questioning why he did what he did. He eventually kills himself due to this. The public mood turns against Robert, as James, rather than being seen as a paranoid, unstable murderer (which was Ford's experience of him, and the way he is portrayed in the film) is idealized as a Robin Hood-like hero and Ford demonized as a cowardly traitor. Eventually, Ford is himself murdered by a man named Edward O'Kelley.