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An early directorial gem from Eastwood.
HIGH PLAINS DRIFTER was only Clint Eastwood's second film as a director, but it demonstrates the sure hand, unusual tone and solid craftsmanship that would later mark such films as UNFORGIVEN. Cut very much from the same cloth as some of the moodier Italo-Westerns, HIGH PLAINS DRIFTER tells a hard-edged tale of hypocrisy, revenge and murder that never stops surprising the audience.

HIGH PLAINS DRIFTER will catch those who think they know Eastwood's westerns - based on early films like THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY and later output like the aforementioned UNFORGIVEN - off guard. It's atypical in nearly every way.

Best horror/western
This movie is amazing. The Stranger comes out of the ether in the beginning of the movie as a lone horserider appears like a blurry mirage riding through the desert. He enters the small mining town of Lago. All eyes are on him as he rides down the street. What happens next is original, violent, and politically incorrect. This movie should be seen by all fans of westerns and the twilight zone.

This is Eastwoods best work in my opinion. And the stranger is as removed from "The man with no name" as he is from "Josey Wales". People lump this movie in with the trilogy sometimes, but there are great differences between them. The Stranger is never in trouble, never in a position of weakness. He came to destory the town and deal out vengence on the people. This has more in common with "Needful Things" than anything. And King probably got some of his ideas from this movie.

The ending is up in the air. Was he the dead marshal, an avenging angel, the marshal's brother? You decide. I like the look of this movie, the sound, the premise. It is a classic. A friendly warning though there are some strong scences in this movie. But if you are as jaded as I am you will love this movie.

They'd never forget the day he drifted into town.
Like all western films staring Clint Eastwood this turned out to be a complete surprise, it is one of the best westerns I have ever seen. In the coastal town of Largo a stranger (Clint Eastwood) arrives to protect the town against some ex-convict outlaws however the people of this small town are dispicable and might have bought on these problems themselves as they are a bunch of cowards and they see this stranger as an outsider or a threat and have already sent three of their men to kill him. There are so many memmorable scenes in this film which was directed by Clint and was his second directed film, some of these scenes include the one where the town's previous sherrif being whipped to death while nobody tried to help him or when the stranger with no name gets to paint the whole town red and calls it Hell just because he can which I thought was awsome. The film sometimes can be violent and there is a rape scene but it is not shown in graphic detail and most of it happens offscreen so its deffinetely not a chick flick infact its the total oppossite and if you liked this film then I also recommend these other western films starring Clint Eastwood The Outlaw Josey Wales, Unforgiven, Pale rider and Hang' em high.

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