High Plains Drifter
The movie follows a drifter with no name (Clint Eastwood) as he wanders into a small town, where his gun-slinging abilities are in high demand. There, he is hired to bring the townsfolk together in an attempt to hold off three outlaws who are on their way.
6 November 1924, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
22 July 1942, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, USA
31 July 1935, Plainfield, New Jersey, USA
3 January 1938, Shanghai, China
9 February 1942, Santa Barbara, California, USA
26 January 1918, Parkersburg, West Virginia, USA
30 November 1931, Alva, Oklahoma, USA
20 August 1933, Richmond, Virginia, USA
7 August 1939, Lynn, Massachusetts, USA
5 February 1926, New York City, New York, USA
26 June 1924, Zion, Illinois, USA
16 January 1935, Charleston, West Virginia, USA
July 03, 2009
Clint Eastwood's first Western as director is rather fascinating due to its quasi-supernatural component.October 26, 2008
Whatever the reasoning, it is a gripping work, harsh and ahead of its time.February 09, 2006
This was supposed to be Eastwood's fond adieu to the worlds of Sergio Leone and Don Siegel; and indeed he cuts the operatic excess of the former with the punchy economy of the latter.December 06, 2005
Clint Eastwood is the ultimate thinking man's cinematic killing machine.November 23, 2013
Mysterious, sporadically comical, and classically Eastwood, High Plains Drifter is a wholly satisfying revenge saga that's askew enough to surprise as it exercises known elements.May 21, 2008
Eastwood's second directorial effort is mechanically stylish.October 28, 2013
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.May 10, 2005
Part ghost story, part revenge Western, more than a little silly, and often quite entertaining in a way that may make you wonder if you have lost your good sense.October 26, 2008
One of the best Westerns of the 1970s.October 26, 2008
As a director, Eastwood is not as good as he seems to think he is. As an actor, he is probably better than he allows himself to be.April 13, 2007
Eastwood registers strongly as actor and director of this revenge Western (yet another critique of High Noon), with a style that's influenced by his mentors, the economic efficiency of Don Siegel with touches of Sergio Leone's Spaghetti Westerns