High Plains Drifter (1973)
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Synopsis
A stranger makes townsfolk prepare garish welcome for convicts.
Cast
- Clint Eastwood
- Verna Bloom
- Marianna Hill
- Mitchell Ryan
- Jack Ging
- Stefan Gierasch
- Ted Hartley
- Billy Curtis
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- Dec 2, 2012
With High Plains Drifter, Clint Eastwood created arguably the most debatable and ambiguous film of his entire career - both as an actor and as a director. There is so much about this eerie western that doesn't get answered. So many details missing. So many presumptions to…
🇵🇱 Steve G 🐝May 13, 2020Eastwood channels two of his biggest collaborators (Leone and Siegel) into one of the grimmest westerns I've seen, that plays sorta like if the wandering Ronin in a Kurosawa movie was actually a rapist monster as well as a brutal killer and the local pacifist townspeople…
Josh LewisAug 15, 2015This might be the cruellest and most hellish Western. The protagonist is literally and figuratively inhuman: a rapist, a harbinger of death, an emblem of vicious retribution. There's moral severity here, not only in thematic terms, but in imagistic ones too: a town painted…
Mike Thorn - Feb 6, 2015
The Stranger: All these people, are they your sisters and brothers? Preacher: They most certainly are. The Stranger: ...Then you won't mind if they come over and stay at your place, will ya? And when the preacher's stunned, passive look further betrays his…
Adam KempenaarJul 31, 2019Amoral ghost story revenge that feels like a grim pulp western paperback from HELL. Perhaps the cruelest American Western of that time period? Perhaps. Eastwood utilizes knowledge acquired from Siegel and Leone and conjures up a raw, sardonic, and mean little horror…
Ian WestApr 19, 2019The residents of Lago describe themselves as “God-fearing people.” They should have been worried about someone else. They just made a deal with him.
Matt Singer - Jun 15, 2024
putting your life in the hands of a demon; a terrifying depiction of america's willingness to submit to an authority which they know will destroy them, the catharsis of being consumed by the sins of the past rather than living among the compromised civilization you've…
comrade_yuiMar 18, 2022- what about after we do it? what do we do then? - you live with it some of the most evil vibes ever in this one, welcome to hell
eddieNov 22, 2020Most of Eastwood's early American westerns were deliberate in their references to Italian films, so it made sense his first self-directed one would do the same, but while Post or Sturges would acknowledge his Leone roots better to incorporate the Man with No Name in a more…
Filipe Furtado
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- Edward Kronkvist likedHigh Plains Drifter
It makes kind of sense Clint Eastwoods next film as a director is a western and it feels like a sequel from the man with no name trilogy. But this is a action packed film that is so breath-taking and just keeps you hooked.
I eat movies is "meh" onHigh Plains Drifterok so, that’s a hero???? I would only remark the set and all the shots in the film… But all the rest of the story was just, stressing
Mark Bateman is "meh" onHigh Plains Drifter5/10 great classic western with a little end twist. Got to love a Eastwood western, never lets to you down 😋. Recommend.
- Max William is "meh" onHigh Plains Drifter
Clint Eastwood definitely has better movies than this one, Unforgiven is my favorite western of all time, but I didn’t really enjoy this one, maybe I need to watch it again…
Sarah Pecoraro is "meh" onHigh Plains DrifterWhen you think you’re watching a western movie but it’s actually a horror movie about revenge & the bystander effect instead. Unsettling but very well done.
Chance Maddox dislikedHigh Plains DrifterBasically ton of noise at the start, pointless. Kill three bad guys, ok. Immediately after goes into basically a rape scene, done at that garbage.
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jovanna is "meh" onHigh Plains Drifteri expect something better not just raping scenes so yeah not my favorite western movie by clint eastwood
TheKillingJoke lovedHigh Plains DrifterVery fun movie. Classic and cool. Has a bit of a rough scene in it. Really enjoyed the ending.
Eye Cinc likedHigh Plains DrifterThe man with no name returns, to avenge. Damn this is a nice western.
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Metacritic
Brutal story-line which is about as close to an explicit allegory as the western has ever come.
Ian Nathan
Empire
What’s most notable is how Eastwood holds fast to the rebel spirit of the spaghetti Westerns and revisionist New Hollywood Westerns of the previous decade, but packages it in a film that’s slicker and more mainstream-friendly.
Noel Murray
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