High Plains Drifter (1973)
- Directed by
- Clint Eastwood
- Genre
- drama film, action film, Western film, horror film, revisionist Western, thriller film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 45m
- Rated
- R
- Rating
- 7.3 of 10 from 1,353 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A silent stranger arrives in a corrupt mining town and is hired to protect the locals from outlaws. He dispenses his own brutal brand of justice while the townspeople grow increasingly uneasy about his true identity.
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What happens
High Plains Drifter is a 1973 supernatural American Western film directed by Clint Eastwood, written by Ernest Tidyman, and produced by Robert Daley for The Malpaso Company and Universal Pictures. The film stars Eastwood as a mysterious stranger who metes out justice in a corrupt frontier mining town. The film was influenced by the work of Eastwood's collaborators, the film directors Sergio Leone and Don Siegel. The film co-stars Verna Bloom, Mariana Hill, Mitchell Ryan, Jack Ging and Stefan Gierasch. The film was shot on location on the southern shores of Mono Lake, California. Dee Barton wrote the film score. The film was critically acclaimed at the time of its initial release and remains popular. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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