High Plains Drifter


High Plains Drifter is a 1973 American supernatural western film produced by Robert Daley for Malpaso Company and Universal Studios, directed by and starring Clint Eastwood, and written by Ernest Tidyman who also wrote the novelization. Eastwood plays an enigmatic wraith, who metes out justice in a corrupt frontier mining town, where he arrives as a stranger. The film was influenced by the work of Eastwoods two major collaborators, film directors Sergio Leone and Don Siegel.

An enigmatic stranger Eastwood rides into the isolated desert mining town of Lago, on the shore of a small lake in an unnamed western territory. Three men follow him into the saloon, taunting him, then follow him to the barbershop. When they draw on him, he dispatches all three with little effort. Callie Travers Mariana Hill deliberately bumps into him in the street, knocks his cigar from his mouth, and loudly insults him. He drags her into the livery stable and rapes her, beginning with Callies furious resistance but ending with her obvious sexual satisfaction.That night, in his hotel room, the Stranger dreams of a man being brutally whipped. In the morning, while having a bath at the barbershop, Callie inaccurately empties a pistol at him as he ducks underwater. He casually resurfaces, cigar still in mouth, and says to the diminutive barbershop employee Mordecai Billy Curtis, I wonder what took her so long to get mad. ........

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