
They'd never forget the day he drifted into town.
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.
- 7.3
- 1973
- Released
- 1h 45m

Clint Eastwood
The Stranger
Verna Bloom
Sarah Belding
Marianna Hill
Callie Travers
Mitchell Ryan
Dave Drake
Jack Ging
Morgan Allen
Stefan Gierasch
Mayor Jason Hobart
Ted Hartley
Lewis Belding
Billy Curtis
Mordecai
Geoffrey Lewis
Stacey Bridges
Scott Walker
Bill Borders
Walter Barnes
Sheriff Sam Shaw
Paul Brinegar
Lutie Naylor
Richard Bull
Asa Goodwin
Robert Donner
Preacher
John Hillerman
Bootmaker
Anthony James
Cole Carlin
William O'Connell
Barber
John Quade
Jake Ross
Dan Vadis
Dan Carlin
Reid Cruickshanks
Gunsmith
Jim Gosa
Tommy Morris
Jack Kosslyn
Saddlemaker
Russ McCubbin
Fred Short
Belle Mitchell
Mrs. Lake
John Mitchum
Warden
Carl Pitti
Teamster




Released
en
$5,500,000.00
$15,700,000.00
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Reviews

**_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. "High Plains Drifter" (1973) was Clint’s third directorial effort (although he also did some unc

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 weren't part of that. Makes sense? Not if you're looking for credible motivation. But credible motivati

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 Lewis, a frequent castmate of Eastwood's, is the best of the rest, if I had to pick. The film does

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. This is Clint Eastwood's first Western film that he directed, and it's clear and evident that the g











