High Plains Drifter
In the mining town of Lago, the city's inhabitants live under a dark mystery. In that city there was an exchange of fire that would make the city protectors tenants dead. The town leaders are asking a stranger to stay and protect them from three outlaws who will soon be released from prison and may begin to kill and corrupt again. The three criminals put the idea of returning to Lago as important to the cause of chaos as well as illegal acts.
26 January 1918, Parkersburg, West Virginia, USA
20 August 1933, Richmond, Virginia, USA
28 December 1920, New London, Connecticut, USA
16 January 1935, Charleston, West Virginia, USA
19 December 1917, Tucumcari, New Mexico, USA
27 June 1909, Springfield, Massachusetts, USA
11 August 1916, Des Moines, Iowa, USA
24 September 1889, Croswell, Michigan, USA
27 June 1923, Plainfield, New Jersey, USA
11 January 1928, Louisville, Kentucky, USA
6 November 1924, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
30 November 1931, Alva, Oklahoma, USA
20 August 1929
1 April 1938, Kansas City, Kansas, USA
7 August 1939, Lynn, Massachusetts, USA
28 November 1925, Kansas, USA
22 July 1942, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, USA
26 June 1924, Zion, Illinois, USA
31 July 1935, Plainfield, New Jersey, USA
18 July 1931, Los Angeles County, California, USA
6 September 1919, Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA
9 February 1942, Santa Barbara, California, USA
27 April 1931, New York City, New York, USA
3 January 1938, Shanghai, China
5 February 1926, New York City, New York, USA
31 May 1930, San Francisco, California, USA
20 December 1932, Denison, Texas, USA
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
December 06, 2005
Clint Eastwood is the ultimate thinking man's cinematic killing machine.
October 26, 2008
One of the best Westerns of the 1970s.
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.
July 03, 2009
Clint Eastwood's first Western as director is rather fascinating due to its quasi-supernatural component.
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 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.
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.
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.
