list http://www.spout.com/ Recent community activity around High Plains Drifter on Spout Copyright 2005-9 Spout, LLC Spout RSS http://www.spout.com/images/SpoutLogoRSS.jpg http://www.spout.com/ 136 30 http://www.spout.com/films/High_Plains_Drifter/15358/default.aspx Title: High Plains Drifter
Year: 1973
Director: Clint Eastwood
Plot: "Who are you?" the dwarf Mordecai (Billy Curtis) asks Clint Eastwood's Stranger at the end of Eastwood's 1973 western High Plains Drifter. "You know," he replies, before vanishing into the desert heat waves near California's Mono Lake. Adapting the amorally enigmatic and violent Man With No Name persona from his films with Sergio Leone, Eastwood's second film as director begins as his drifter emerges from that heat haze and rides into the odd lakefront settlement of Lago. Lago's residents are not particularly friendly, but once the Stranger shows his skills as a gunfighter, they beg him to defend them against a group of outlaws (led by Eastwood regular Geoffrey Lewis) who have a score to settle with the town. He agrees to train them in self-defense, but Mordecai and innkeeper's wife Sarah Belding (Verna Bloom) soon suspect that the Stranger has another, more personal agenda. By the time the Stranger makes the corrupt community paint their town red and re-name it "Hell," it is clear that he is not just another gunslinger. With its fragmented flashbacks and bizarre, austere locations, High Plains Drifter's stylistic eccentricity lends an air of unsettling eeriness to its revenge story, adding an uncanny slant to Eastwood's antiheroic westerner. Seminal western hero John Wayne was so offended by Eastwood's harshly revisionist view of a frontier town that he wrote to Eastwood, objecting that this was not what the spirit of the West was all about. Eastwood's audience, however, was not so put off, and an exhibitors' poll named Eastwood a top box-office draw for 1973. ~ Lucia Bozzola, All Movie Guide
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]]>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 19:15:44 GMTHigh Plains Drifter1973Clint Eastwood"Who are you?" the dwarf Mordecai (<a href="/players/P____16281/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Billy Curtis</a>) asks <a href="/players/P____88601/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Clint Eastwood</a>'s Stranger at the end of Eastwood's 1973 western High Plains Drifter. "You know," he replies, before vanishing into the desert heat waves near California's Mono Lake. Adapting the amorally enigmatic and violent Man With No Name persona from his films with <a href="/players/P____99378/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Sergio Leone</a>, Eastwood's second film as director begins as his drifter emerges from that heat haze and rides into the odd lakefront settlement of Lago. Lago's residents are not particularly friendly, but once the Stranger shows his skills as a gunfighter, they beg him to defend them against a group of outlaws (led by Eastwood regular <a href="/players/P____42203/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Geoffrey Lewis</a>) who have a score to settle with the town. He agrees to train them in self-defense, but Mordecai and innkeeper's wife Sarah Belding (<a href="/players/P_____6834/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Verna Bloom</a>) soon suspect that the Stranger has another, more personal agenda. By the time the Stranger makes the corrupt community paint their town red and re-name it "Hell," it is clear that he is not just another gunslinger. With its fragmented flashbacks and bizarre, austere locations, High Plains Drifter's stylistic eccentricity lends an air of unsettling eeriness to its revenge story, adding an uncanny slant to Eastwood's antiheroic westerner. Seminal western hero <a href="/players/P___116130/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>John Wayne</a> was so offended by Eastwood's harshly revisionist view of a frontier town that he wrote to Eastwood, objecting that this was not what the spirit of the West was all about. Eastwood's audience, however, was not so put off, and an exhibitors' poll named Eastwood a top box-office draw for 1973. ~ Lucia Bozzola, All Movie Guide5Slightly Tagged (1-5)1113http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/t44310tlqax.jpghttp://www.spout.com/films/High_Plains_Drifter/15358/default.aspxFilm http://www.spout.com/blogs/ifwecansparkle/archive/2006/8/10/2245.aspx Post By: billhr
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Post Date: 8/10/2006 9:45:42 AM
Body: Although I wouldn't say Best Movie Ever, I'd agree that it is one of Eastwood's best. So...I'm curious what you think about High Plains Drifter (HighPlainsDrifter's detail page).
]]>Thu, 10 Aug 2006 13:45:42 GMTbillhrifwecansparkle Blog8/10/2006 9:45:42 AMAlthough I wouldn't say Best Movie Ever, I'd agree that it is one of Eastwood's best. So...I'm curious what you think about High Plains Drifter (<a href='http://www.spout.com/films/HighPlainsDrifter/15358/default.aspx'>HighPlainsDrifter's detail page</a>). http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/Classic/MemberTagFilms.aspxClassic
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