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High Plains Drifter

High Plains Drifter

7.3/ 10

TMDB Rating

1,315

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1973

Release Year

105 min

Runtime

Western
Drama
Mystery

Overview

A gunfighting stranger comes to the small settlement of Lago. After gunning down three gunmen who tried to kill him, the townsfolk decide to hire the Stranger to hold off three outlaws who are on their way.

Keywords

gunslinger
showdown
outlaw
gunfighter
guns
shooting
outlaws

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Reviews(5)

6.4avg rating
John Chard

John Chard

February 16, 2014

9
9/10

Supernatural Western? A lone gunman with no name and seemingly with no past, rides into the dusky town of Lago. The residents of Lago at first view the stranger with suspicion, but when news that some outlaws that are out for blood are on their way to town, they ask the stranger for his help.

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r96sk

r96sk

January 27, 2022

7
7/10

I don't have much to say about <em>'High Plains Drifter'</em>. It didn't thrill me or anything, but it did keep my attention from start-to-finish so it's evidently a good film. Clint Eastwood is the only cast member worth talking about, he gives a commanding performance in the lead role. Geoffrey

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drystyx

drystyx

April 18, 2023

2
2/10

Another Hollywood (spaghetti) formula Western where homicidal maniacs abound. Here, Clint plays a homicidal maniac who obviously comes back from the dead after being killed by three bad guys and betrayed by an entire town of people. So, the first thing he does is murder the only three men who were

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Wuchak

Wuchak

March 13, 2024

7
7/10

**_Clint paints the Western town red, like Gehenna_** A mysterious Stranger (Eastwood) trots into a remote town in west-central California, a dozen miles from the Nevada border. The townspeople desperately need his help to prepare for the release of three vengeful men from the territorial prison.

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CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

January 15, 2026

7
7/10

Now we are used to Clint Eastwood playing the poncho-clad man of few words in westerns, but this one has an altogether spookier thread to it. When he arrives into a dead end town he is immediately challenged by three ne’er do wells whom he effortlessly despatches. The townsfolk are not so much terri

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