High Plains Drifter (1973)
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HIGH PLAINS DRIFTER
Dir. Clint Eastwood, Perf. Clint Eastwood, Verna Bloom, Mariana Hill, and Mitch Ryan.
Review by Dominic
In the opening scene of Clint Eastwood’s High Plains Drifter, a stranger (Eastwood) rides out of the desert toward the isolated town of Lago, wherein he butts heads with a few townsfolk, and tentatively sides with a few others.... read more
UPC: 025192015229

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" First Viewing Viewing Date: November 15th Via: Blu-ray Plot: A gun-fighting stranger comes to the small settlement of Lago and is hired to bring the townsfolk together in an attempt to hold off three outlaws who are on their way to slaughter everyone and destroy the town. Rating: 7.6/10"

"Sergio Leone’s influence is obvious in the baroque excesses of High Plains Drifter. Clint Eastwood’s aim, though, isn’t to pay homage to the genre but to usher in its apocalypse. The setting is the frontier town of Lago, threatened by three barbarians, but Eastwood’s cowboy hero outdoes them in ferocity; as “the Stranger,” he materializes on the horizon distorted by heat waves, less Shane than angel of death. Where his later gunfighters are pockmarked with an increasingly frail human"

"The Bride walking through the desert is an homage to the opening title sequence of this film."

" Notes:First of all, it was not surprising that for his sophomore directing effort Clint Eastwood decided to direct a Western. Back in those days, it was the genre he was the most associated with and it was pretty much compulsory that Eastwood would star in all his directing effort otherwise the studio wouldn’t back his projects. Surprisingly, it took as long as 30 years with the release of ‘Mystic River’ before he was finally able to make the movies he wanted only as a director. Anyway, "