Clint Eastwood

Cast: Clint Easwood, Verna Bloom, Marianna Hill and Mitch Ryan

Director: Clint Eastwood

Writer: Ernest Tidyman

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High Plains Drifter is a 1973 Western film with a hint of supernatural horror directed by and starring Clint Eastwood. High Plains Drifter was filmed on location on the shores of Mono Lake, California. The screenplay was written by Ernest Tidyman and an unaccredited Dean Riesner, with Tidyman authoring the novelization.

Dee Barton provided the film’s eerie musical score. Panorama of Lago, as the tall lone stranger approaches the town at the beginning of the film lone man on horseback emerges from a shimmering desert horizon and heads into the fictional town of Lago, in a setting like the Arizona territory.

After passing a cemetery on the town’s outskirts, he rides slowly down the main street, where the townspeople eye him gingerly. He exchanges a stare with three gun men on the boardwalk of the saloon; then his attention is drawn sharply by the crack of a teamster’s whip.

Dismounting, this Stranger (Eastwood) goes to the saloon, for a beer and a bottle of whiskey. The gunslingers come in and starts irritate him. He exits and walks across the street to the barbershop. Though unnerved by him, the barber gamely begins giving him a shave.

Within minutes, the gunslingers enter, surround the Stranger, and attempt to lay hands on him. He surprises them with his gun drawn and ready, masked by the apron the barber had tied around his neck. He shoots all three dead in seconds. Impressed, a dwarf named Mordecai approaches from the saloon and lights the Stranger’s cigar.

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• One of the headstones in the graveyard bears the name Sergio Leone as a tribute.
• Other headstones bear the names of ‘Don Siegel (I)’ (Eastwood’s director on five films, four of which preceded this one), and Brian G. Hutton (director of Where Eagles Dare (1968) and Kelly’s Heroes (1970)). Patrick McGilligan’s 2002 Eastwood biography quotes the star as saying, “I buried my directors.”
• Editing of the film was done in a log cabin on the shores of Mono Lake.
• Universal Pictures wanted the film to be shot on the studio lot. Instead, Clint Eastwood had a whole town built in the desert near Mono Lake in the California Sierras. Many of the buildings were complete and three-dimensional, so that interiors could be shot on location.
• The Bible verse on the wall of the church is Isaiah 53:3-4 which reads, “He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised and we esteemed him not. Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted”
• Shortly after the film’s release, Clint Eastwood wrote to John Wayne, suggesting that they make a western together. Wayne sent back an angry letter in reply, in which he denounced this film for its violence and revisionist portrayal of the Old West. Eastwood did not bother to answer his criticisms, and consequently they did not work together.

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