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01/01/00
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
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07/30/02
Whatever the reasoning, it is a gripping work, harsh and ahead of its time.
10/26/08
Savory Eastwood western.
11/14/05
Clint Eastwood's first Western as director is rather fascinating due to its quasi-supernatural component.
07/03/09
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
No review available.
07/25/02
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
A funny, brutal, scary movie, daringly surreal in its mix of Western and horror themes.
01/01/00
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
Clint Eastwood is the ultimate thinking man's cinematic killing machine.
12/06/05
Clint Eastwood's second film as a director -- and his first western -- is a minor classic.
04/03/05
Dark, bloody, and uncompromising; the ultimate deconstruction of the Western genre.
10/03/02
Paint the town red, Clint. It's your strangest and one of your best westerns.
10/15/04
No review available.
01/25/05
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
Part ghost story, part revenge Western, more than a little silly, and often quite entertaining in a way that may make you wonder if you have lost your good sense.
05/10/05
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
As a director, Eastwood is not as good as he seems to think he is. As an actor, he is probably better than he allows himself to be.
10/26/08
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