High Plains Drifter
1973 · Movie · R · 105 min · ★ 7.3 · 82% critics
A mysterious gunslinger rides into the isolated town of Lago and quickly proves deadly when threatened. With three dangerous outlaws headed their way, the fearful townspeople hire him for protection, only to find his help comes with unsettling demands and a darker edge than they expected.
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Details
- Years
- 1973
- Release date
- 1973-04-19
- Language
- English
- Rated
- R
- Runtime
- 105 min
- Critic score
- 82/100
- TMDB rating
- 7.3/10 (1,339 votes)
- Box office
- $15,706,540
- Budget
- $5,500,000
About
If you like darker, supernatural-tinged Westerns with a vengeful drifter and a morally rotten town, this could hit hard, especially if you enjoyed Pale Rider; Not for you if sexual violence and harsh, bleak stories are dealbreakers.
Pros: eerie supernatural vibe; tense, violent standoffs; memorable antihero | Cons: bleak, mean-spirited tone; uncomfortable sexual violence; some find it tedious
Themes
- gunslinger
- showdown
- outlaw
- gunfighter
- guns
- shooting
- outlaws
Cast & crew
Clint Eastwood
as The Stranger
Verna Bloom
as Sarah Belding
Marianna Hill
as Callie Travers
Mitchell Ryan
as Dave Drake
Jack Ging
as Morgan Allen
Stefan Gierasch
as Mayor Jason Hobart
Ted Hartley
as Lewis Belding
Billy Curtis
as Mordecai
Geoffrey Lewis
as Stacey Bridges
Scott Walker
as Bill Borders
Directed by Clint Eastwood