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High Plains Drifter (1973)

R04/19/1973Western, Drama, Mystery1h 45m
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They'd never forget the day he drifted into town.

Overview

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.

Top Billed Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Clint Eastwood

    The Stranger

  2. Cast 1

    Verna Bloom

    Sarah Belding

  3. Cast 1

    Marianna Hill

    Callie Travers

  4. Cast 1

    Mitchell Ryan

    Dave Drake

  5. Cast 1

    Jack Ging

    Morgan Allen

  6. Cast 1

    Stefan Gierasch

    Mayor Jason Hobart

  7. Cast 1

    Ted Hartley

    Lewis Belding

  8. Cast 1

    Billy Curtis

    Mordecai

  9. Cast 1

    Geoffrey Lewis

    Stacey Bridges

Another Hollywood (spaghetti) formula Western where homicidal maniacs abound. Here, Clint plays a homicidal maniac who obviously comes back from the dead after being killed by three bad guys and betrayed by an entire town of people. So, the first thing he does is murder the only three men who weren't part of that. Makes sense? Not if you're looking for credible motivation. But credible motivation isn't a part of most of Eastwood's Westerns. Certainly not the spaghetti ones. So, the rest of the movie is just sound and fury, signifying nothing, and don't try to make sense out of any of it. I...

Status Released

Original LanguageEnglish 

Budget$5,500,000.00

Revenue $15,700,000.00

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