High Plains Drifter (1973)

Editor's Note Clint Eastwood once again portrays the 'Man With No Name' in this bleak morality play about a man who protects a frontier town from outlaws, more out of contempt for the outlaws than love for the cowardly townspeople. This was Eastwood's second directorial effort following the very successful PLAY MISTY FOR ME.

	Clint Eastwood
	Marianna Hill
	Mitchell Ryan
	Verna Bloom
	Clint Eastwood - Director
	Bruce Surtees - Director of Photography
	Dee Barton - Musical Score
	Jennings Lang - Producer
	Robert Daley - Producer
	Ernest Tidyman - Writer
	Dean Riesner - Writer

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 threatens to inform the government that they've been operating on public land. They then attempt to frame the hired killers, prompting the gunmen to seek revenge. The townsfolk go to the well once more, hiring a mysterious Stranger to rid them of these bandits. But the Stranger has his own agenda and proves to be more than they bargained for.

"Isn't forcible rape in broad daylight still a misdemeanor in this town?" ---- Callie Travers (Mariana Hill) to Sheriff Shaw (Walter Barnes)

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"[T]he most distinctive and nastiest western of Eastwood's career. A stone-cold classic by anyone's standards." 01/01/2004 p.142