Review of High Plains Drifter (1973) by Art S — 13 Mar 2014
Clint Eastwood's second directorial effort transplants his man-with-no-name character (loosely reconceived from Sergio Leone's spaghetti westerns) into a new setting, as a mysterious stranger who wreaks havoc (and possibly vengeance - if he is really an angry ghost) on a mining town with a dirty secret.
The town's leaders hire him to defend them from three outlaws (previously hired to defend them but subsequently betrayed) now getting out of prison. The stranger basically ridicules the people of the town, exposing their greed, weakness, and stupidity and then he lets them die.
He lets the good ones survive. In keeping with the 1970s revisioning of the western, this is an exceedingly nasty and violent film (including an awful rape scene). My how Clint has changed.
This review of High Plains Drifter (1973) was written by Art S on 13 Mar 2014.
High Plains Drifter has generally received very positive reviews.
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