Chalk up another great movie for Clint Eastwood.
High Plains Drifter is a very strange movie indeed. It is also a little confusing. In fact, it takes a while to fully get whats going on. But I think that is how its supposed to be.
The music was really really well placed in the movie. Helped set the tone for a lot of scenes.
Clint Eastwood steals the show as The Stranger, a mysterious man who rides into the scared, shady town of Lago and isn't long before he starts kicking everyone around. Geoffrey Lewis plays Stacey Bridges, one of the most cold-hearted bandits I've ever seen on screen. There are also great performances by Verna Bloom, Billy Curtis, Mitch Ryan, Ted Hartley, Jack Ging, Marianna Hill, Paul Brinegar, Robert Donner, and Walter Barnes.
The movie is very cold and ruthless: just how a western based on revenge should be. There are many moving scenes. And there are also very comical ones. Eastwood himself is very comical and as always: you can't help but love his character.
This is definitely a classic.
9/10.
High Plains Drifter is a very strange movie indeed. It is also a little confusing. In fact, it takes a while to fully get whats going on. But I think that is how its supposed to be.
The music was really really well placed in the movie. Helped set the tone for a lot of scenes.
Clint Eastwood steals the show as The Stranger, a mysterious man who rides into the scared, shady town of Lago and isn't long before he starts kicking everyone around. Geoffrey Lewis plays Stacey Bridges, one of the most cold-hearted bandits I've ever seen on screen. There are also great performances by Verna Bloom, Billy Curtis, Mitch Ryan, Ted Hartley, Jack Ging, Marianna Hill, Paul Brinegar, Robert Donner, and Walter Barnes.
The movie is very cold and ruthless: just how a western based on revenge should be. There are many moving scenes. And there are also very comical ones. Eastwood himself is very comical and as always: you can't help but love his character.
This is definitely a classic.
9/10.