Drifter in sequence and in only six weeks filming was complete, two days. Paul brinegar wishbone from rawhide appears as the saloon barman. High plains drifter movie trailer and videos tv guide. Spoilers 8 shortly after this movies release, clint eastwood wrote to john wayne, suggesting that they make a western together.
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. Eastwood plays a mysterious stranger, meting out justice in a corrupt frontier mining town. As a fan of american beauty, you like a thinkingmans film. Clint eastwoods film high plains drifter 1973 the first time i saw high plains drifter was probably in the late 1970s. Classic eastwood western and one of the most popular poster images from his western collection. 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.
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. Clint eastwood, verna bloom, marianna hill, mitchell ryan, geoffrey lewis, john hillerman directed by. High plains drifter 1973 classic horror film board. He had an uncredited hand in rewriting the screenplay for high plains drifter. High plains drifter is a 1973 american film directed by and starring clint eastwood. Find low everyday prices and buy online for delivery or instore pickup. 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. High plains drifter strainul fara nume 1973 online subtitrat. High plains drifter 38 movie clip im the sheriff and the mayor 1973 hd by movieclips.
Video archive for the film high plains drifter, which has a domestic theatrical release in the year of 1973. Watch high plains drifter movie trailers, exclusive videos, interviews from the cast, movie clips and more at. Get high plains drifter dvd and bluray release date, trailer, movie poster and movie stats. High plains drifter is a 1973 western film with a hint of supernatural horror directed by and starring clint eastwood. 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. High plains drifter 10 of the best clint eastwood films. Eastwoods pale rider pretty much crosses this film with shane and certainly. You know, he replies, before vanishing into the desert heat waves near californias mono lake. 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 next shot you see two more tombstones to the left.
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. The biggest mistakes you never noticed in high plains drifter 1973. High plains drifter on dvd 025192015229 from universal. Particularly effective in this unforgettable opening scene is the music sounding like the high whine. The brief opening setting it off just so like a drawn, slow fuse being lit. So it surprises me that you did not take time to explore the deeper meaning of high plains drifter. 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.
Strainul fara nume high plains drifter 1973 film online subtitrat. The film stars clint eastwood as the stranger, verna bloom as. And the themes and symbolism make it a masterpiece in my opinion. In the frontier town of lago, marshall jim duncan discovered that the. Rent high plains drifter 1973 on dvd and bluray dvd. 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.
He quietly passes through the town to the bar, orders a beer, a bottle of whisky, and a peaceful hour to drink it in. The official universal studios entertainment facebook page. High plains drifter 10 of the best clint eastwood films film. 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. The violence of the film including a couple of murders by. 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. 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. High plains drifter is clint eastwoods second film, and his first as a western director. Writing the music for universal pictures high plains drifter 1973, composer dee barton would display his flair for the unusual. 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. Well im 64 now and i got it on dvd and i appreciate it even more. 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.
I know many of you make a fuss about whether or not a movie is genre. A gunfighting stranger comes to the small settlement of lago. 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. Plains drifter in the theater soon after it was released in the summer of 1973. A shadowy figure rides across the plains in a baking heat and slowly approaches the mining town of lago. The townspeople seem fearful and worried as the stranger clint eastwood passes by. I first saw high plains drifter in the theater soon after it was released in the summer of 1973.
High plains drifter trailer directed by clint eastwood and starring clint eastwood, mitch ryan, jack ging, stefan gierasch, ted hartley. High plains drifter on dvd 025192208409 from universal. High plains drifter, with eastwood as director as well as star, is part ghost story, part. This poster has been linen backed and aside from some light retouching along. There is currently one video available for the film, of which one and only one is a trailer, as listed below. 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. High plains drifter 1973 movie mistakes, goofs and bloopers. Clint eastwood stars and directed this western that is in many ways a spin off of the sergio leone films. Clint eastwoods high plains drifter only the second movie he ever directed makes its second. Wayne sent back an angry letter in reply, in which he denounced this movie for its violence and revisionist portrayal of the old west.
High plains drifter, original clint eastwood movie poster. Do the murdered dead really need a marker to rest in peace, or do they simply need revenge. The film was influenced by the work of eastwoods two major collaborators, film directors sergio leone and don. Rent high plains drifter 1973 starring clint eastwood and verna bloom on dvd and bluray. Movie poster starring and directed by clint eastwood. With clint eastwood, verna bloom, marianna hill, mitchell ryan. High plains drifter is more suited to the chfb anyway. High plains drifter 1973 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Editing of the film took place in a log cabin on the shores of lake mono. High plains drifter 1973 directed by clint eastwood. High plains drifter is a crude and violent western, shot in a beautiful landscape, where realistic costumes and settings meet with a supernatural atmosphere. High plains drifter is a really odd film with an ambiguous ending open to many interpretations. The movie was shot around the mono lake area of california.
A gothic horror story and revenge thriller, its one of the darkest. Can someone please explain high plains drifter to me. 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 opens on screen the new york times. High plains drifter is a really odd film with an ambiguous ending open to. High plains drifter 1973 high plains drifter is clint eastwoods second film, and his first as a western director. 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. Find movie and film cast and crew information for high plains drifter 1973 clint eastwood on allmovie. This is a digitized version of an article from the timess print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. 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. Clint eastwoods second film as a director and his first western is a variation on the. Ending spoiler for high plains drifter 1973, plus mistakes, quotes, trivia and more. Most westerns are either about cattle drives or cowboys and indians. Clint eastwood as director makes as great a job as the hero of the movie.