This script is a transcript that was painstakingly transcribed using the screenplay and/or viewings of High Plains Drifter. Before the film is finished fire is raging throughout the town and everyone who was involved in the Marshall whipping gets some kind of upcommance for their actions. Eastwood reportedly liked the offbeat quality of the film's original nine-page proposal and approached Universal with the idea of directing it. Usually when Eastwood is punching a man across a table or delivering a nonchalant verbal beat down we are laughing and enjoying it. As stridently revisionist as any Western of the Vietnam era, High Plains Drifter is really only a Western on paper. original, Release Date (Streaming): High Plains Drifter (1973) on IMDb: Movies, TV, Celebs, and more. Says the paradox: to save the just, you must make a pact with the Devil. 3,224 IMDb 7.4 1 h 45 min 1973. As the outlaws make their way back into Lago, they discover that the town is not exactly as they had left it, and waiting in the shadows is the Stranger, ready to expose the town's secret and serve up his own brand of justice. The film stars Eastwood as a mysterious stranger who metes out justice in a corrupt frontier mining town. It is one of those examples, I Lombardi, Verdis fourth opera, is set during the First Crusade. [22], American musician Kirk Hammett included a song named High Plains Drifter, which takes its title from the film, on his 2022 extended play, Portals. Supported by Eastwood casting his own stunt double as the dead marshal. Dee Barton wrote the film score. Starring: Clint Eastwood, Verna Bloom, Marianna Hill Watch all you want. Anyway Clint. Ive watched High Plains Drifter probably a half dozen times and every time Im more and more convinced that the Stranger is the ghost of Duncan meting out punishment from the Great Beyond. Dennis Harvey 48 Hills. Theyre already in hell for their sins (at least everyone other than Verna Bloom, who was the only person who tried to help Duncan). The Stranger lures one of the Carlin brothers outside and whips him to death, then kills the remaining outlaws one by one. Edit, After having the townfolk paint the entire town red, rename it "Hell", and set up a picnic and welcoming banner for the outlaws' return, the Stranger rides out of town, leaving them to fight their own battle against the three outlaws that brutally whipped Duncan to death while the townies stood and watched. Coming Soon. Brings back the memory of my Dad bringing home a . High Plains Drifter (1973) - IMDb High Plains Drifter 1973 | Maturity Rating: 16+ | 1h 45m | Westerns Unavailable on an ad-supported plan due to licensing restrictions. High Plains Drifter - Home - Facebook High Plains Drifter (1973) - Trailer HD 1080p - YouTube [6] An uncredited rewrite of the script was provided by Dean Riesner, screenwriter of other Eastwood projects. Particularly bad is the scene where Callie ambushes the Stranger while he's taking a bath, unarmed, and fires several shots at him. Amherst . He was mellow on the set, never asked for more than one or two takes, and made a habit of coming in both under-schedule and under-budget on his filmsalthough he probably would have preferred to call them movies rather than films. Dee Barton's score is genuinely refreshing, capturing the supernatural feel of the film through a fusion of classic western themes and a whimsy which ranges from colorful to rather intense, while Bruce Surtees' cinematography, despite being not quite as playful as Barton's still-underused efforts, is also attractive in its bleakness, with a rugged palette over gritty art direction by Henry Bumstead. Returning to Lago, the Stranger inspects the preparationsthe entire town painted red, armed men on rooftops, picnic tables laden with food and drink, and a big "WELCOME HOME BOYS" bannerthen he silently departs again. (2) The stranger was Marshal Jim Duncan himself come back to exact his revenge (perhaps through a deal with the devil.). The locals are impressed, enough to vote in town council to let Sheriff Sam Shaw (Walter Barnes) explain those were hired guns overstepping their task. with updates on movies, TV shows, Rotten Tomatoes podcast and more. Starring: Clint Eastwood, Verna Bloom, Marianna Hill Even when the film is traditional in structure, it's often distancing, for Eastwood's quiet directorial intensity is often more quiet than intense, and therefore more dry than Eastwood can handle as a sophomore directorial storytelling, resulting in dullness that is the biggest issue of the final product. Watch High Plains Drifter | Netflix the dolly shot and zoom in the final scene showing Marshal Jim Duncan's name on the gravestone Mordecai just finished engraving after The Stranger tells him that he does in fact know The Stranger's name establishes at the very least that he came to town to avenge Duncan's death. Haunting. Additional scenes were filmed at Reno, Nevada's Winnemucca Lake and California's Inyo National Forest. Given that he was mentored by the likes of Don Siegel and my personal favourite director Sergio Leone it's no wonder that Eastwood went on to make hits like The Outlaw Josey Wales and Unforgiven. This movie is definitely a different kind of western. A gunfighting stranger 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. "You know," Mordecai says, "I never did know your name." In Rabbinical literature, the angel of death, a creation of God on the first day, exacts slaughter, in the manner ordained by God, to restore the honour of mankind. Just below that it reads "Ticket Confirmation#:" followed by a 10-digit number. [13], Vincent Canby of The New York Times called the film "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 lost your good sense. The goal of /r/Movies is to provide an inclusive place for discussions and news about films with major releases. A gunfighting stranger 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. And in 1971, he finally got his shot with the paranoia-drenched Fatal Attraction prototype Play Misty for Me. I know, I know, I still need to get the cast names in there and I'll be eternally tweaking it, so if you have . It didn't thrill me or anything, but it did keep my attention from start-to-finish so it's evidently a good film. "[15], Arthur D. Murphy of Variety called it "a nervously humorous, self-conscious near satire on the prototype Clint Eastwood formula of the avenging mysterious stranger. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "High Plains Drifter". The librettist is Temistocle Solera. The Ferrymans Obolus, the third and concluding sequence of Part 2, The idea is Gods. Because maybe you didn't go back for more? TVTropes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Free (& Subscription) Games for All Platforms: New & Upcoming, What to Watch in May: 18 Notable TV Shows & Streaming Movies. Actor Geoffrey Lewis, who appeared in many Clint Eastwood films and made several appearances in TV shows throughout the '60s and '70s, has died of natural causes, a family friend told Variety.