High Plains Drifter
High Plains Drifter is a 1973 American Western film directed by Clint Eastwood, written by Ernest Tidyman, and produced by Robert Daley for The Malpaso Company and Universal Pictures. The film stars Eastwood as a mysterious stranger who metes out justice in a corrupt frontier mining town. The film was influenced by the work of Eastwood's collaborators, the film directors Sergio Leone and Don Siegel. The film co-stars Verna Bloom, Mariana Hill, Mitchell Ryan, Jack Ging and Stefan Gierasch.
Plot
A mysterious, unnamed stranger rides out of the desert into the isolated mining town of Lago in the American Old West. Three gunmen hired to protect the town taunt and threaten him; he kills them with little effort. When the attractive, blonde woman Callie Travers flirtatiously insults him, he rapes her in the livery stable while the townspeople do nothing. That night, in his hotel room, the Stranger dreams of Jim Duncan, a U.S. Marshal, being whipped to death by outlaws Stacey Bridges and brothers Dan and Cole Carlin, as Lago's citizens watch in silence.
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| author | Dean Riesner Ernest Tidyman |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Arizona |
| director | Clint Eastwood |
| editor | Ferris Webster |
| genre | horror thriller western |
| keywords | bath build bury gold mine hotel owner hotel room isolated kill livery stable mining town morning native american nothing old west one by one outlaw rid scream set on fire shoot steal u.s. marshal unmarked grave wound |
| musicBy | Dee Barton |
| producer | Robert Daley |
| productionCompany | The Malpaso Company |
| publisher | Universal Pictures |
| recordedAt | California |
| theme | ghost rape vigilante |