One of the best Westerns of the 1970s.
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10/26/08
High Plains Drifter (1973)
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Reviews Counted:24
Fresh:23
Rotten:1
Average Rating:7.7/10
Runtime: 1 hr 46 mins
Genre: Westerns
Synopsis: In Eastwood's supernatural homage to his own cinematic roots -- the films of Sergio Leone and Don Siegel -- the residents of a greedy mining town conspire to murder their own sheriff when he... [More]
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Verna Bloom, Marianna Hill, Billy Curtis
Director: Clint Eastwood
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Reviews for High Plains Drifter
Whatever the reasoning, it is a gripping work, harsh and ahead of its time.
10/26/08
Clint Eastwood is the ultimate thinking man's cinematic killing machine.
12/06/05
Revenge doesn't do much for your claims to nobility, but more often than not it makes for some pretty good stories and lots of guilty pleasure.
01/23/03
the universal story in its most basic form
01/01/00
Clint Eastwood's second film as a director -- and his first western -- is a minor classic.
04/03/05
Savory Eastwood western.
11/14/05
Clint's a supernatural amoral mythical hero (of the pulp novel kind), bent on cruelty and getting revenge for a past misdeed.
03/16/05
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.
02/09/06
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
04/13/07
High Plains Drifter will make an excellent double bill along with Eastwood's other post-modern Western, the 1992 Unforgiven.
01/22/03
There's some nice action here, and the whole thing is cloaked in an archetypal spookiness that makes High Plains Drifter work not only as a 'man with no name' Western but also as something a little deeper.
11/07/02
Clint Eastwood's first Western as director is rather fascinating due to its quasi-supernatural component.
07/03/09
A funny, brutal, scary movie, daringly surreal in its mix of Western and horror themes.
01/01/00
This film is hardcore. Not hardcore as in lots of blood and guts, but more in that it's just plain nasty. Everyone therein is nasty, and the hero is the nastiest man in the flick.
01/01/00
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07/30/02
Dark, bloody, and uncompromising; the ultimate deconstruction of the Western genre.
10/03/02
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01/25/05
No review available.
07/25/02
Paint the town red, Clint. It's your strangest and one of your best westerns.
10/15/04
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