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Synopsis
"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

Cast

Verna Bloom Sarah Belding
Stefan Gierasch Mayor Jason Hobart
Jack Ging Morgan Allen
Marianna Hill Callie Travers
Mitchell Ryan Dave Drake
Clint Eastwood Stranger

Production Crew

Henry Bumstead Art Director
Bruce Surtees Cinematographer
Dee Barton Composer (Music Score)
Clint Eastwood Director
Ferris Webster Editor
Jennings Lang Executive Producer
Jim Fargo First Assistant Director
Robert Daley Producer
Ernest Tidyman Screenwriter
George Milo Set Designer
James R. Alexander Sound/Sound Designer
Buddy Van Horn Stunts
Year: 1973
Runtime: 105
Country: USA
MPAA Rating: R
Category: Feature

Genre
Western

Produced by
Malpaso
Universal