High Plains Drifter (1973) View full post on Youtube Surreal and sensational, this bizarro western feels like Eastwood’s riff on one of Sergio Leone’s revisionist oaters with a dash of religio-mysticism thrown in to keep things weird. As in Pale Rider, Clint comes to the rescue of a...
Clint Eastwood plays his usual gunslinging antihero who saves a town from corruption inHigh Plains Drifter. But this one has a Satanic twist as Eastwood’s character is implied to be the Devil, who arrives to deliver the townspeople to the fires of Hell.The “new sheriff” in question is s...
but he’s sorta supposed to. He bugs the hell out of George Kennedy’s character, too, and those scenes are some of the movie’s best bits. Lightfoot’s hippie-dippy mannerisms overshadow Eastwood’s more measured portrayal of Thunderbolt in a way that’s not altogether proper, though—s...
Eastwood managed to direct some of the greatest Westerns as well once he transitioned to a behind-the-scenes role, and created such classics asThe Outlaw Josey Wales,Pale Rider, High Plains Drifter,and the Best Picture winner,Unforgiven. It would be easy to look at Eastwood’s achievements an...
Eastwood continued to play antiheroes in the Western films he directed.The first Western he directed,High Plains Drifter,featured him in the role of a mysterious drifter known only as “The Stranger,” who is hired to protect a small town of innocent civilians from the threat of a vicious ...
and Skarlatos play themselves. Building a whole movie around a few decisive moments isn’t as crazy as it might sound; Eastwood had done it a few years earlier inSully, a film higher up this list. But why give over so much of the film to scenes of the three leads just touring through...
Full name, Clinton Eastwood, Jr.; born May 31, 1930, in San Francisco, CA; son of Clinton and Ruth (maiden name, Runner) Eastwood; married Maggie Johnson(a model), December 19, 1953 (divorced, 1982); married Dina Ruiz (a newscaster), March 31, 1996; children: (with Roxanne Tunis)...
Clint Eastwood is an iconic actor and director who has left an indelible mark on Hollywood with his versatile performances and acclaimed films that have entertained audiences for decades.
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