High plains drifter is a 1973 american western film directed by and starring clint eastwood, written by ernest tidyman, and produced by robert daley for. High plains drifter is a 1973 western film with a hint of supernatural horror directed by and starring clint eastwood. High plains drifter trailer directed by clint eastwood and starring clint eastwood, mitch ryan, jack ging, stefan gierasch, ted hartley. Dean riesner who cowrote coogans bluff from 1968,play misty for me,dirty harry from 1971,charley varrick from 1973 and the enforcer from 1976 and also wrote the teleplay for the great miniseries rich man, poor man in 1976,which made nick nolte a star. Clint eastwood as director makes as great a job as the hero of the movie. As with eastwoods later quasireligious western, pale rider 1985, high plains drifter leaves it unclear whether the stranger is a fleshandblood human being or a ghost. With clint eastwood, verna bloom, marianna hill, mitchell ryan.
High plains drifter 1973 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Get high plains drifter dvd and bluray release date, trailer, movie poster and movie stats. I know many of you make a fuss about whether or not a movie is genre. He quietly passes through the town to the bar, orders a beer, a bottle of whisky, and a peaceful hour to drink it in. Clint eastwoods second film as a director and his first western is a variation on the. High plains drifter is a 1973 western directed by and starring clint eastwood, with a screenplay by ernest tidyman the french connection, shaft in the old west, a mysterious drifter referred to only as the stranger rides into the dismal mining town of lago, which has a crisis on its hands. Editing of the film took place in a log cabin on the shores of lake mono. The townspeople seem fearful and worried as the stranger clint eastwood passes by.
The biggest mistakes you never noticed in high plains drifter 1973. He had an uncredited hand in rewriting the screenplay for high plains drifter. Movie typography from the western high plains drifter 1973, directed by clint eastwood, starring clint eastwood, verna bloom, marianna hill, mitch ryan home 19201924. Strainul fara nume high plains drifter 1973 film online subtitrat. Find movie and film cast and crew information for high plains drifter 1973 clint eastwood on allmovie. It remains, 47 years after release, one of the most shocking films to be released by an american studio and become a hit, and without question the nastiest western of all time. Video archive for the film high plains drifter, which has a domestic theatrical release in the year of 1973. Eastwoods pale rider pretty much crosses this film with shane and certainly. High plains drifter, with eastwood as director as well as star, is part ghost story, part. Drifter in sequence and in only six weeks filming was complete, two days. High plains drifter is a 1973 american western film directed by and starring clint eastwood, written by ernest tidyman, and produced by robert daley for malpaso company and universal pictures. Adapting the amorally enigmatic and violent man with no name persona from his films with sergio leone, eastwoods second film as director begins as his drifter. The brief opening setting it off just so like a drawn, slow fuse being lit.
The film stars clint eastwood as the stranger, verna bloom as. High plains drifter 1973 classic horror film board. The part of sheriff jim duncan is played by stuntman and later director buddy van horn. High plains drifter, original clint eastwood movie poster. At the end of the film when the stranger clint eastwood is riding out of lago, he passes a midget who is painting a name on a tombstone. High plains drifter is a 1973 american film directed by and starring clint eastwood. Indeed, i cant recall a western movie in which a gunman could draw faster or shot straighter, or any movie hero who was less afraid of putting his life on the line. Classic eastwood western and one of the most popular poster images from his western collection. High plains drifter on dvd 025192015229 from universal. High plains drifter 1973 high plains drifter is clint eastwoods second film, and his first as a western director.
Clint eastwood stars and directed this western that is in many ways a spin off of the sergio leone films. Spoilers 8 shortly after this movies release, clint eastwood wrote to john wayne, suggesting that they make a western together. Staring clint eastwood, mitchell ryan, mariana hill and verna bloom. A gothic horror story and revenge thriller, its one of the darkest. Do the murdered dead really need a marker to rest in peace, or do they simply need revenge. Paul brinegar wishbone from rawhide appears as the saloon barman. The film was influenced by the work of eastwoods two major collaborators sergio leone and don siegel eastwood has noted that the graveyard set featured in the film s finale had tombstones reading sergio leone and don siegel, intended as a comical dedication to both.
This was only the second movie clint eastwood had directed,play misty for me in 1971 was his first, and he did a really good job. High plains drifter movie trailer and videos tv guide. High plains drifter is a really odd film with an ambiguous ending open to. A gunfighting stranger clint eastwood comes to the small settlement of lago and is hired to bring the townsfolk together in an attempt to hold off three outlaws who are on their way. Clint eastwoods film high plains drifter 1973 the first time i saw high plains drifter was probably in the late 1970s. Eastwood plays a mysterious stranger, meting out justice in a corrupt frontier mining town. Find low everyday prices and buy online for delivery or instore pickup. High plains drifter 10 of the best clint eastwood films. High plains drifter is a crude and violent western, shot in a beautiful landscape, where realistic costumes and settings meet with a supernatural atmosphere. This is a digitized version of an article from the timess print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996.
High plains drifter strainul fara nume 1973 online subtitrat. A gunfighting stranger comes to the small settlement of lago. There is currently one video available for the film, of which one and only one is a trailer, as listed below. Movie poster starring and directed by clint eastwood. As a fan of american beauty, you like a thinkingmans film. Clint eastwood, verna bloom, marianna hill, mitchell ryan, geoffrey lewis, john hillerman directed by. Clint eastwoods high plains drifter only the second movie he ever directed makes its second. High plains drifter 38 movie clip im the sheriff and the mayor 1973 hd by movieclips. High plains drifter 1973 directed by clint eastwood. Ending spoiler for high plains drifter 1973, plus mistakes, quotes, trivia and more.
And the themes and symbolism make it a masterpiece in my opinion. High plains drifter on dvd 025192208409 from universal. A shadowy figure rides across the plains in a baking heat and slowly approaches the mining town of lago. High plains drifter 1973 movie mistakes, goofs and bloopers. The official universal studios entertainment facebook page. Writing the music for universal pictures high plains drifter 1973, composer dee barton would display his flair for the unusual.
Well im 64 now and i got it on dvd and i appreciate it even more. High plains drifter is clint eastwoods second film, and his first as a western director. The violence of the film including a couple of murders by. Can someone please explain high plains drifter to me. You know, he replies, before vanishing into the desert heat waves near californias mono lake. So it surprises me that you did not take time to explore the deeper meaning of high plains drifter. His arrival and departure is filmed with a telephoto lens through hazy waves of heat, a physical materialization out of nothingness and disappearance back into the ether. Watch high plains drifter movie trailers, exclusive videos, interviews from the cast, movie clips and more at. Most westerns are either about cattle drives or cowboys and indians. High plains drifter is a really odd film with an ambiguous ending open to many interpretations. High plains drifter 1973 in the opening minutes of high plains drifter, clint eastwoods stranger wanders into lago, a dusty mining town situated on a lake in some western expanse. Particularly effective in this unforgettable opening scene is the music sounding like the high whine.
The film was influenced by the work of eastwoods two major collaborators, film directors sergio leone and don. Rent high plains drifter 1973 on dvd and bluray dvd. I first saw high plains drifter in the theater soon after it was released in the summer of 1973. High plains drifter 10 of the best clint eastwood films film. Wayne sent back an angry letter in reply, in which he denounced this movie for its violence and revisionist portrayal of the old west. His highly unorthodox music balanced the requisite touch of ennio morricone this being a clint eastwood western with a sophisticated meld of early synthesizers, female voices, dry guitars, lively percussion and full orchestra. In the frontier town of lago, marshall jim duncan discovered that the. In the next shot you see two more tombstones to the left. High plains drifter opens on screen the new york times. High plains drifters main titles key off the fearful barton score, together with the onset visuals of a lone figure on horseback, introducing the tales instigator and township. Plains drifter in the theater soon after it was released in the summer of 1973. Rent high plains drifter 1973 starring clint eastwood and verna bloom on dvd and bluray. High plains drifter is more suited to the chfb anyway.
Clint eastwoods sophomore outing as director sees him back in the saddle as a mysterious stranger, as the result is one of his most memorable westerns. High plains drifter 1973 plot summary 5 a gunfighting stranger clint eastwood comes to the small settlement of lago and is hired to bring the townsfolk together in an attempt to hold off three outlaws who are on their way. In a supernatural mix of high noon and once upon a time in the west, clint eastwood directs and stars in this spooky western in which a mysterious and meanspirited drifter pulls into town and is. The movie was shot around the mono lake area of california. This poster has been linen backed and aside from some light retouching along.
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