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Released Year: 1973
Runtime: 105 minutes
Directors: Clint Eastwood
Casts: Clint Eastwood, Geoffrey Lewis, Mitchell Ryan, Jack Ging, Billy Curtis, Ted Hartley, Stefan Gierasch, John Hillerman, John Quade, John Mitchum, Verna Bloom, Belle Mitchell, Walter Barnes, Robert Donner, Paul Brinegar, Marianna Hill, Richard Bull, Dan Vadis, Scott Walker
Ratings: 
(3 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)
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Empire -
Brutal story-line which is about as close to an explicit allegory as the western has ever come.
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The Dissolve -
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.
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Film Threat -
Clint Eastwood is the ultimate thinking man’s cinematic killing machine. High Plains Drifter is his spooky, dark, and vicious version of the Sergio Leone Man With No Name Spaghetti Westerns he once starred in, and a moody existential meditation on gunplay, revenge and karma. Payback!
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The Telegraph -
A gothic horror story and revenge thriller, it’s one of the darkest Westerns going. As much a ghost story as anything else, it stars Eastwood as a gunslinging cowboy paid handsomely to protect an idyllic Californian mining town from bandits.
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Chicago Reader -
Full of delirious color symbolism and macho cruelties, but not without its humor as well. The story is pure dime-store allegory, but the director/star knows his western cliches and uses them like a master.
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High Plains Drifter (1973)
A gunfighting stranger comes to the small settlement of Lago. After gunning down three gunmen who tried to kill him, the townsfolk decide to hire the Stranger to hold off three outlaws who are on their way.
High Plains Drifter (1973)
(3 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)Loading...
Information
Released Year: 1973
Runtime: 105 minutes
Directors: Clint Eastwood
Casts: Clint Eastwood, Geoffrey Lewis, Mitchell Ryan, Jack Ging, Billy Curtis, Ted Hartley, Stefan Gierasch, John Hillerman, John Quade, John Mitchum, Verna Bloom, Belle Mitchell, Walter Barnes, Robert Donner, Paul Brinegar, Marianna Hill, Richard Bull, Dan Vadis, Scott Walker
Storyline
A gunfighting stranger comes to the small settlement of Lago. After gunning down three gunmen who tried to kill him, the townsfolk decide to hire the Stranger to hold off three outlaws who are on their way.
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Reviews
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Empire -
Brutal story-line which is about as close to an explicit allegory as the western has ever come.
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|
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The Dissolve -
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.
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Film Threat -
Clint Eastwood is the ultimate thinking man’s cinematic killing machine. High Plains Drifter is his spooky, dark, and vicious version of the Sergio Leone Man With No Name Spaghetti Westerns he once starred in, and a moody existential meditation on gunplay, revenge and karma. Payback!
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The Telegraph -
A gothic horror story and revenge thriller, it’s one of the darkest Westerns going. As much a ghost story as anything else, it stars Eastwood as a gunslinging cowboy paid handsomely to protect an idyllic Californian mining town from bandits.
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Chicago Reader -
Full of delirious color symbolism and macho cruelties, but not without its humor as well. The story is pure dime-store allegory, but the director/star knows his western cliches and uses them like a master.
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A gunfighting stranger comes to the small settlement of Lago. After gunning down three gunmen who tried to kill him, the townsfolk decide to hire the Stranger to hold off three outlaws who are on their way.
