High Plains Drifter | Clint Eastwood vs. the Town Outlaws
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- Опубликовано: 21 сен 2021
- The Stranger (Clint Eastwood) is the only one who can protect the town of Lago once outlaws roll in. Watch the thrilling conclusion to High Plains Drifter as he rains righteous justice upon their heads (armed with his whip and a fistful of dynamite) as the town burns down around him.
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Clint Eastwood's second film as a director finds the celebrated action star returning to his familiar Old West stomping grounds and his internationally acclaimed role of "The Man With No Name." This time, The Stranger (Eastwood) mysteriously appears out of the heat waves of the desert and rides into the lawless, sin-ridden town of Lago. After making a name for himself with a string of blazing gun battles, The Stranger is hired by the townspeople to provide protection from three ruthless gunmen just out of jail. The Stranger quickly proceeds to paint the entire town bright red, rename it "Hell," and supply divine retribution in the fiery, pulse-pounding climax of this acclaimed western shoot-em-up.
© 1973 Universal Studios, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Cast: Clint Eastwood, Verna Bloom, Marianna Hill
Produced by: Robert Daley
Directed by: Clint Eastwood 
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I' m a 60 years old German and i grew up with Charles Bronson and Clint Eastwood. My heros in my childhood...
I am 37 years old but I am a fan of Clint Eastwood’s westerns and cop films as grew up on Eastwood with my Dad who is 64 years old
And Rambo !!!!!
Geofrey Lewis is the star of this scene. His facial expression when Eastwood throws the whip into the bar is awesome. Truly a criminally underrated actor.
Him and Clint were best friends, so I read.
Eastwood had some good actors in his movies over the years. Geoffrey Lewis was one of them.
He was very underrated as an actor.
"Orville"
He enjoyed later roles, as the vampirsed craftsman in Salem’s Lot then the father figure to Jean Claude Van Damme in DOUBLE IMPACT
Gotta love how Clint Eastwood was loyal to his actor friends! How many of these actors are in his other movies.... Too many to count! It is good to have friends like Mr. Eastwood.
Like Albert Popwell who was in 5 Eastwood movies (including the first 4 of the 5 Dirty Harry movies).
Hell yeah. Himself and Albert Popwell for exaple got on very well by all accounts. Hence Albert appearing in various guises in the Dirty Harry series (Bankrobber/Pimp/Big Ed/Horace). "Hey - I gots to know...."
Easier to work with people your familar with Everytime than the ones you're not
@@leejee88 I'd have said easier to work with people you get on with, instead of a bunch of moronic a-holes (go ahead, try 9 years in a brainmorgue of an office with creative & imaginative sorry, overpaid & incompetent civil servants....).
Especially in Every which way but loose
I love how The Stranger not only punishes the bad guys, but he also punishes the entire town for hiring them!
Clint often punished those in his movies who were simple cowards who said or did nothing while others commited crimes. I like that theme. As Edmund Burke is often quoted, "All it takes for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing".
He punished the town for doing nothing when he was hung
@@vancouver4sure the sheriff character was whipped to death, not hung thats a different Eastwood movie. The character made a deal with heaven and hell to punish all the wicked, towns people for their cowardice and the outlaws for his death.
The town got punished not for hiring these goons in the first place and not even only for their cowardice in letting Jim Duncan die, but for all of them assenting in one form or another to the Marshal's murder because he was about to bring evidence that Lago didn't have proper title to the land on which the gold mine was located. The people who ran the mining company had Stacy Bridges and his cousins do the killing (and then betrayed and set them up on the robbery charge) but the whole town allowed the murder to protect their community interest in the mine and thus became wholly corrupted. That was the hidden crime of Lago, the sin for which the whole town was held for judgment. The very few who tried to object or even intervene, like Sarah Belling, or were too terrified to act like Mordecai, were suppressed and ended up having to live with the guilt along with everyone else because they had nowhere else to go.
@@vancouver4sure he wasn't hung . He was whipped man
I remember as a kid watching all these old westerns with my dad. I never knew then how today, they would help me recall those memories now that he has passed on. Miss you dad.
Our family, our friends,remain in our hearts FOREVER, through memories as such.
Peace.
😉 I remember watching all these new westerns as a kid
Yes I a great memory s of my dad getting drunk and hitting me the good old days smfh.
I remember they used to play them on tbs passed my bedtime... My uncle would let me stay up late to watch it ..
It's good to be loyal to your father.
One of the greatest ghost stories ever filmed.
Ive never read the book, but i was told least by the book it was his brother
@@jerryjustice8026, then explain how "The Stranger" comes out of the desert from nothing at the beginning and goes back into nothing at the end? He was the ghost of Jim Duncan.
@@timburns4880 I get the movie yeah I think he was a ghost too. I mean at the end when the little guy said I never knew your name he replied yes you do, but I was referring to the book
@@jerryjustice8026 there is a video interview of eastwood talking about leaving the brother angle out of the movie. it`s on youtube somewhere
@@scotthvac417 I perfer the angle he took even the erie music in the movie
Clint Eastwood was and always will be the "BADDEST MAN" in the wild wild west. THE MAN THE MYTH THE LEGEND
Lee Van Cleef?
@Troy Hooker what?
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The boogeyman check his closet before bed to make sure Chuck Norris is hiding in there, but Chuck Norris checks his closet to make sure Clint Eastwood isn't in there!
@@davea4245 And they are all afraid of John Wick.
The looks on everyones faces as the whip came down was pure Gold. They finally knew.
How much for gold?
Malachi knew.
@@beatleman69 "I never did know your name"
"Yes you did"
@@beatleman69 They all knew, Malachi was the only one feeling good about it
It MADE MY DAY.
This is easily one of my favorite Clint Eastwood movies ever.
He's a cold, calculated, vengeful force and he doesn't afraid of anyone.
Definitely a great, But I'd have to choose "The Outlaw Josey Wales".
He is a avenging angel
@@donjohn2695 or a ghost..same in pale rider
"...doesn't..."??? How about isn't afraid!
🎭 The wrong choice of words is a RUclips trademark.
Arguably the best scene that Geoffrey Lewis (Stacey) was ever in. May he be resting in peace.
My favorite Western by anyone ever. That moment when everyone relives the whipping and several people suddenly realize as a result who The Stranger is. Priceless.
He dies and borns again. As a range bum.
In that case, I recommend that you watch Unforgiven.
@@neoanderson4006 That is by far my favorite Eastwood movie. Agree. Ten thumbs up!
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No way. Unforgiven, Pale Rider, outlaw Josef Wales all better
Clint Eastwood will never be replaced!
Never.
No good actor could & unfortunately I don’t think anyone is coming soon
Absolutely.
Agreed, wholeheartedly.
@@joethekinghawk7514 and he was a good boy cow
Damn he not only whipped him to death but he made an example of him throwing the whip at the gangs to let them know how he got killed. Striking fear into their hearts. Love that detail.
If you see the full movie you’ll understand the meaning of all the villains and townspeople underlying horror and realization of what the whip meant.
Wow.
This never gets old.
Clint is the master.
Truly a master
This is one of the darkest westerns of all time.
I love his movies!! In a nutshell they were well produced, fascinating, man with no name, he always injected humor in them and stood up for the little guy
Everyone can count on Clint Eastwood every time. He never failed; he killed them all.
Just don't be Harry Callahan's partner.
Nobody beats clint
And no dramatic stalling, either.
@@akizeta TRUE.
@@akizeta
To paraphrase the Mayor, you have a point.
A character who truly deserves the word ICONIC!. One of the most haunting endings ever. And satisfying..
God, will I miss Clint Eastwood and his No Holds Bar acting, directing and overall personality.
An American icon!
The western genre would have died out in the 70s without Clint, he was the perfect actor for the new wave of gritty and highly stylised westerns pioneered by the Italian film industry and acted as the bridge to bring it into everyday American culture and even make it their own by doubling down on the hard edge Clint brought with his characterisation. At one point it was almost entirely only Clint that could deliver a western and sell tickets for it at the cinema, films like High Plains drifter and Pale Rider are probably the 2 best known examples of this along with Unforgiven.
Pretty close to being a “Western Horror” flick. Definitely a prototype for the whole genre.
The music helps convey that too :O
Gothic Western. Eastwood's Pale Rider (1985) was a dark remake of Shane in that same vein and Preacher a far more explicit avatar of Death in that movie.
What do you mean "Close to"
Is there any thing else like it?
This SHOULD be a new trend.
Western Horror.
RED DEAD REDEMPTION and
Stephen King's DARK TOWER
series are a step in this direction.
All we need is for Netflix to
truly take us there.
Clints use of the same group of actors across so many films is amazing
Rather like 'John Ford's private Repatory Company' with all his old friends
My all time favorite Clint movie. It still gives me chills to this day when he rides off into the desert at the end......... And disappears........
He didn't just disappear, he just faded away, very spooky and supernatural. I guess Mordechai (midget) carving his name on his tombstone Gave his soul final rest.
@@joethekinghawk7514 This--This is EXACTLY why his Ghost came back. He KNEW the 3 men who killed him, where to be let out from jail. He Also came back, to get his REVENGE on the town's people who DIDN'T do ANYTHING to stop his death.
And at the start of the film he appears out of the dusty plains with the eerie music.
@@jamsheadaziz3999 ......High Plains Drifter!!!
Far from beeing my fav, Outlaw Josey Wales is hard to match
Clints facial response to "It won't cost you one cent more than regular hotel rates" from the preacher cannot be beaten. Myself and some of my best friends still use that line to this day - works every time!
LOL! Another favorite:
"Those are paying customers! I can't just kick them out! If I evict them where are they supposed to go?!"
"Out."
the dwarf worked out who/what the stranger was,
A character who truly deserves the word ICONIC!
The fire makes him look demonic, and it looks amazing. Clint was definitely on his game with this one.
I love how Clint had the same crew in his movies.
Like John Wayne did.
Movies like this are can’t be made anymore. Truly a classic in every sense of the word.
@Tam 113, I know, we will never see movies like this get made ever again, and it would be seen as "offensive", if made in today's wimpy society.
@@adamcuneo7189 I agree pro sports is wimpy too along with wimpy society and movies , really cant stand this garbage now
@@adamcuneo7189 I'm sorry you feel that way, but it's pure fantasy that a film line this wouldn't get made today because it would "offend" anyone. Of course there are trends in movies, of course there are agendas, but to think that society has become too "wimpy" to watch a few immoral guys get punished by the incarnation of death is ludicrous.
It's made already do no point making it again 😒
It's offensive because white man.
I love how uses that whip to get Justice. He strangled that guy and they all just stand around frozen with fear.
The leader doesn’t know who he’s up against and then at the end yells out Who are You? As he’s about to die. But there’s no answer. The silence is deafening and scary because they know there’s a ghost killer exacting revenge on them. Clint even Hangs ‘‘em High!
He whispers: Help Me! Help Me!
But they don’t get it.
He’s an Avenger.
One of my favorite Eastwood movies! He even painted the Town Red because it was like Hell.
Help me, help me. Spooky to know that Marshall Duncan soul is crying for justice.
I remember as a kid (I was 6 or 7) watching this with my dad.
The “help me…help me” was so haunting and fascinating to me-and “who are you” just was chilling to “child me.”
Now I know…it’s vengeance-death has come for you.
@@JohnK-ph3vw It’s still a cool movie and very mystical and eerie even! I still like it alot along with Outlaw Josey Wales, the Spaghetti 🍝Westerns and Dirty Harry Series of films. What a career and life Eastwood has had! He just turned 90 and he’s still alive! Wow! He must be healthy but Dick Van Dyke has got him beat! He just turned 95! They both have their mental faculties which is critical in old age!
God Bless them both!
May they both live to be 101!
One of the most haunting endings ever. And satisfying.
After his success with the spaghetti westerns, Eastwood's best westerns IMO were High Plains Drifter, The Outlaw Josey Wales, and Unforgiven. All have to be at the top of the lists of the best ever. Phenomenal actor and director. A shame his time with us probably isn't a whole lot longer.
and Pale Rider.
@@robertmoore2527 - yep, also good.
It will be a sad day indeed when we lose Clint. But he will have left an amazing legacy that people will enjoy for years to come.
@@chrisreed3929 What dafuq are you talking about? Death is afraid of Clint Eastwood. He'll go when he's good and ready, and not a second before then. You got that!? lol
@@robertmoore2527 I saw that at the flicks. Underrated.
My Dad and I went to see this movie in a tiny second run cinema, and we both loved it. Clint Eastwood's directing work on "High Plains Drifter" was impressive. The climax sequence set at night with all of the great action and fires was masterfully done. With this great western, Clint Eastwood had become a top class director.
Quigley Down Under almost went to the same place as this movie...
"Quigley Down Under" simply didn't work because Tom Selleck was too 'likeable' in the role; the movie had no edge. Selleck was excellent, however, in several great TV made westerns.
Clint is known for shooting shadowy movies. He likes the mood and the partial hiding of faces and figures . You see it in "The Outlaw Josie Wales " when he kills the guys in the traders post. He also likes filming in the fall because of the low lighting
None of what you said passed my giggle test. It's ham-fisted incoherence - and that's being generous.
So, you saw this movie? Well, maybe you can tell me why Clint Eastwood ordered everyone to paint the town RED? I don't get it
It's great how even shots into the air are ricochets.
Hollywood didn't think ol Clint was good enough boy were they wrong !!! So he went to Italy made 3 legendary westerns with Legendary director Sergio Leone and totally brilliant soundtracks by Ennio Morricone and the rest is history then Hollywood knew they had a huge brilliant star on thier hands and did thier best to get Eastwood !!! Just like Sylvester Stallone , Clint Eastwood did it his way and would not accept rejection or take no for an answer and funny thing is Eastwood and Stallone are two of the best ever right along a few other greats like Heston and Bronson and many more !!!
Knew an Actor who said Eastwood was not an Actor ……..He had no roles at the time……..I said Eastwood radiates with the public……..He is worth millions and I don’t think he gives a Rats Ass what you think………
Didn't know that he went to Italy good to know eh Good for Clint Eastwood No one's is good as him this days Well Lee Van Cleef is good too and other's during his times Watching Clint Eastwood Movies I don't want to watch new actors Movies hahaha
R.I.P Geoffery Lewis............
Je eas one of the funniest guys in the movies. Eastwood and he made s tesm.
He had 9 kids he had it great
This gave Lewis a good send off, ha!
Love how at the end you can see the flames through him showing he is just a ghost
I just seen that ! Wow creepy.
Sad that no more generations will experience watching a classic like this from the back of their parents station wagon at a drive-in theatre. Good days.
The dead dont rest, without a marker or a name.
One of the most entertaining and underrated westerns ever. Clint worked his magic and charisma.
Great family movie! 🤗
underrated, he says...😑
NO CGI, just good old fashioned acting. CLASSIC western movie.
It was satisfying seeing him whip them for revenge
The characters, acting and direction are sublime. Clint places the bar very high for the quality he demands for one of his movies.
Seeing the tough bad guys wetting their knickers when the realisation dawns is a very satisfying climax to this film.
Clint dealing out justice as only he can!! 👍🏻😄⚰️
True,i love the blood immediately after the gunshot !
Clint Eastwood is simply the best,a American Legend unmatched.
Made in Italy. It was the dollar movies that put him on the map.
He got His start in the TV series called RawHide. It was a western about a wagon train going west.
Arguably the greatest American that's ever lived
He has had so many great movies, that it's hard to pick just one.
For me it's either High Plains Drifter or Unforgiven.
What about the greatest movie of all time the good the bad and the ugly
@@oldcountryboyGreatest western of all time
@@diegocristianpolastri6349 Agreed!! It's a masterpiece.
What did you think of Cry Macho?
That slight smile on Mordechai's face.....perfect.
My favorite Hollywood actor.CLINT EASTWOOD.
In a similar-themed Eastwood film, "Pale Rider," the chief bad guy eventually figures out at the moment of dying who Preacher is. "You!!"
But in "High Plains Drifter," Stacy never does. He keeps asking, "Who are you?" Only Mordecai understands.
The man with no name is like a force of pure will. They don't make characters like this any more.
And they won't ever be able to, because no one can ever replace Clint.
@@adamcuneo7189 👍🏻😍
While that is true, this is not part of that "series". Clint has a name in this movie, its just not revealed until the end. Mordecai is carving his name into the grave marker as Clint rides off. I think it was John Duncan. Not sure as it was a long time ago that I last watched this movie.
@@markh3271
It was. Marshall John Duncan.
@@adamcuneo7189
His son Scott Eastwood. He looks just like him.
Eastwood has always been a brilliant director and storyteller.....
The actor who was whipped to death later played Skinny in Unforgiven, Anthony James, passed in 2020.
He was in a lot of movies / TV shows.
And In the Heat of the Night.
@@brandonallen3289
💯% correct 👍
He was a thug in "Blue Thunder".
The smiling hearse driver in Burnt Offerings (1976).
He's an Archangel surrounded by all those flames.
He’s Satan.
@@zuzuspetals9281, No, he's not, he's the ghost of the Marshal, who's out out for revenge for what they did to him.
When he whips his coat back to draw his gun, standing in front of the flames... Hard to think of a more bad-ass moment
Always loved this one, it was one of Eastwood's darker films but great none the less!!
So because it was one of his darker films, it should not have been great? There are plenty of great, dark films.
@@droceretik You quite obviously misinterpreted my comment. I clearly stated that I love this film and at no point said “dark” films are bad. Almost all of my favourite movies are films that are considered to be dark.
I see your point. Normally 'our Clint' is a hero - through and through - but in this one he's well, he's not EXACTLY a straight-laced, 'good-guy'. Great film nonetheless. :-)
John Wayne implored Eastwood NOT to make this movie.
A fantastic western ghost story ❤
Despite what critics say, this will always be my favorite Clint Eastwood western.
I love it at the very end when Clint's character rides by to say goodbye to Mordecai,and Mordecai says I never did know your name,and Clint says Yes You Do,Great Scene...
Saw this movie back on November 5, 2022 at home, when I was a Senior and it was a gloomy day!!
No one does westerns like Clint Eastwood ! The master !
Clint eastwood, great guy great actor, great director. Has a lot of friends and keeps them in a lot of his films. They'll never be another Clint
That thaaarrrr's Clint Eastwood, an' ja don't wanna mess with his scriptwriters, cos he always lives an' he always wins.
The single greatest western in history. Better than any other Clint Eastwood western as well as any other western movies ever made with any actors.
Unforgiven and Outlaw Josey Wales are excellent, but this is the best Clint Western bar none.
I don't know. I like Pale Rider, Hang em high, and Two mules for sister Sarah more!
@@mikemcdonald2755 Nothing quite like a good piece of Hickory ! Hand full of whoop ass
I'm more in the goodbadugly camp.
@RUDE AWAKENING it had a powerful message, but you had to see beyond the surface.
Um, noooo, it is great. But pale rider is my personal fav, either way opinions vary. I was actually telling my younger girlfriend about that movie, i think i ll just watch high plains drifter, and pale rider with her.
Clint was leagues and leagues beyond Wayne in EVERYTHING!
Damn, Clint killed that guy twice in two different movies, and in a bar lol.
Definitely in my top 5 western movies.
The spirit of a murdered lawman possesses a wondering gunslinger. Returns to the town he was murdered and plots his revenge on the cowards of that town and the men who killed him. A powerful ghost story and a great film. Eastwood at his best and the second movie he directed and stared in.
wouldn't say possessed, but rather apparated into the world as a wandering gunslinger to throw off suspicions of him being the marshal
@@dannyboidee You may want to read up on Clint's original writings and adaptations of the screen play. The marshal was killed. No one knew who he was when he came into town. If he had been the marshal, they would have known.
@@nealjolly5434 I always wondered about that. I thought it was supposed to be the ghost of the sheriff brought back in physical form to take his revenge, but I always wondered why nobody recognized him. So if he did somehow possess a living gunslinger, that would solve the recognition problem. Yet I seem to remember a scene from the movie, a flashback where we see the sheriff murdered, and it was Eastwood himself who clearly was the sheriff. And both the fading in and fading out of the gunslinger at the beginning and end of the movie seems to imply he wasn't a real human.
@@graytonw5238 Understood, but I was going on what Eastwood wrote in his original notes of the movie. The screen play. A ghost can not take physical form, yet the fading in and out does pose a question. Not being recognized. I would say that the spirit within distorted the wonder's physical body giving him the appearance it's formal self. Therefor looking like the sheriff, but not to the people of the town. They only see a stranger. My thoughts only.
@@nealjolly5434 Ah, good point. Thus we as the audience see the sheriff's real appearance when looking at the gunslinger, but the townspeople wouldn't because they're seeing the gunslinger's external appearance (I'm guessing). I'll certainly bow to the original notes and screenplay from Eastwood himself, since that's the true source of the movie and story. One of Eastwood's best in any event.
One of the most kick-ass closing scenes on film. Few today can compare.
Amen!
Of course they can't. Creativity and imagination are now taboo!
Quite so.
And...
It's interesting to consider how westerns and police action films changed in the '60s and '70s in light of what the population was experiencing from Vietnam war and the economic and political upheavals of the seventies...
Not Gene Autry and not the clean shaven dapper soft hand singing cowboys..
A lot of that grit is remixed into the Tarantino style of films that people seem to find so satisfying despite their endless lust for glorified stylized violence and sadomasochism especially against women and people who are indistinguishable as being either good or bad.
HolyWeird Helping Who?
Denzel's "Equalizer" would compare favorably.
One of the best westerns ever made, right up there with Rio Bravo and unforgiven. Jeff Lewis is so underrated , acted in many of Clints films.
underrated, he says...😑
I like just before he died Stacey looked up and said Marshall! He finally realized who it was!
When Clint walks out at a distance to confront Stacy, his head looks like it has horns. You don't see the brim of his hat initially but his head definitely looks like it has horns though barely imperceptible. And he whispers "Hey" to get Stacy to turn around.
@@ernestmccalip1109 never noticed that, I will have to watch for that. Thank you
I'm fairly sure he said "who are you". Twice.
@@carlfranz6805 yes, I agree
The sign on the poster was right.
"THEY'LL NEVER FORGET THE DAY HE CAME TO TOWN!"
AND, Who exactly was this mysterious man? The spirit of vengeance? The good sheriff's ghost? A relative or a town person who witnessed the murder?
We'll never truly know!
However, what we do know is that this film was and always will be an all time classic! Thank You Mr. Eastwood!
The terrified and shell-shocked expressions of those faces as the whip tore through the flesh tells you ... they know that's the Whipping of Revenge for Blood... Priceless!!
A tired trope infested and out of date genre - the Western. Yet Eastwood managed to reinvent it 5 times in America alone. High Plains Drifter, Outlaw Josie Wales, Pale Rider, The Beguiled and Unforgiven. The man is a legend.
Joe Kidd & Bronco Billy
@@snotbubbles3276 It's a point but Joe Kidd didn't really add anything new and Bronco Billy wasn't really a western.
@@Peterviegal The fact that there are so few westerns being made shows it's an outdated genre.
@@davidsanders5652 yet the right one comes out tomorrow and the mono myth is reborn
@@davidsanders5652 lots of westerns on TV. Made for Cable types. It's still a section in the book store too. It's just that the fan base is usually older and not a flush with disposable cash compared to sci-fi and fantasy fans.
I guess when you invoke the tales of redemption, you get anti-hero's like the High Plains Drifter from back then and John Wick now.
That "Help me" is fucking spine chilling..
Legend of western legend of cinema Clint Eastwood
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The whispered "help me" at 6:37 really emphasizes that this is a ghost story. Those were the dying words of the Marshall to the townies who set him up.
Exactly. Never send a good man on his way without making him a tombstone, his soul may comeback and pay you a visit.
Intresting take. It was all supernatural from beginning to end. Here another theory, maybe the town is really a ghost town and everyone has already past on and this is their punishment in the after life for allowing the Marchell to be brutally murdered. I just like to add a little twist to things.
@@joethekinghawk7514 Yep that is why the town is painted red because they are actually in Hell.
Geoffrey Lewis was a talented actor. He could play hostile to great effect. I always felt he was underrated.
Indeed. Great at comedy and great at being a vampire too.
Amazing range of heavies on old westerns. Julliette Lewis's dad.
He was also superb at doing dry comedy. RIP Sir.
@@daveroche6522 So true. Had a certain energy he could project and adjust for any situation, as needed. Loved the coldness in his eyes. Great character actor. ✌
underrated, he says...😑
That guy that got bull whipped was blown away in Unforgiven as the owner of Greely's Bar. lol
Yep, Seems his specialty is getting the "dying" scenes...lol
He was in tons of movies & TV. He played Ralph, the killer from In The Heat Of The Night...
Clint Eastwood for president.
"To your feet ma'am...they're almost, as big as your mouth". One of the best lines of all time.
Yep, and she knew exactly what she wanted bumping into him like that.
I could do better than you in a 4 bit fancy house.
He's probably right.
... man needs his rest sometimes... but if you come back in about an half an hour I see what I can do alright?...
Just a cryin and a humpin
Clint Eastwood's firstmovie he directed. A stone cold heartless character who gave the town of Lago exactly what they deserved. I love the end when he's leaving town and sees Mordicai carving the name Jim Duncan on a wooden tomb at the marshall's grave and says "I'm almost done here captain, you know I never did het your name". Then the stranger says to him "you know who I am"( the little man gives him a look of terror)" you take care". "Aye aye captain" then rides off the way he rode in. I'll never forget the first time I saw it.
Agreed. A powerful, underrated scene in a fantastic, somewhat underrated/overlooked movie. First class.
This film closed out Eastwood's 'man with no name's era for good.
After the happenings in the town of lago at the hands of a man with no name the town of Lago was changed to Big Whiskey. But little did the town of Big Whiskey or their crooked sheriff and deputies realize that once again their town will be visited by a man who was known as the mysterious man with no name and now goes by the name of William Munny, and the level of Vengeance he leaves on Big Whiskey and it's crooked sheriff and deputies for killing his friend and putting him on display will leave the town of Big Whiskey in total shock and awe in the end!
Little Bill was a facinating character. Presenting himself to the writer as a noble couragous lawman. But I noticed that he preferred to do his "sheriffing" with 4 deputies in back of him with guns already drawn. But then again, you got 4 deputies there when English Bob rolled into town, they were all rifled and shotgunned up, even Clyde for just having 1 arm still had 3 pistols ready to go, but they were not going to do a thing until Bill showed up. He did deserve what he got in the end. But then again, "Deserve's got nothing to do with it."
I'll buy that idea. Thanks for the connection.
"I was building a house..."
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What's left of the crooked then move to D.C. and call themselves Democrats.
Loved Eastwood's cast.... Went on to make several movies with him.RIP boys
Great supernatural western.Just look at Mordecai's(Billy Curtis) face in the last scene
Pale Rider another one
There is a split second when the stranger walks in front of the fire behind Geoffrey Lewis’ character you can see his true form as a wraith
I saw this movie as a kid My dad had a bull whip and said if I ever touched it he'd whip me with it
That was 35 yrs ago & it's prolly still hanging there😂
Two of the best icons in western movies..RIP Geoffrey Lewis... when you make friends with Clint, you're friends for life it appears.
Eastwood keeps rolling
Not seen this in decades.. Forgot his good it was
When this film came out I was 15..I can't remember if I saw it at a drive in. But saw it many times on tv through the years. I'm 65 now...long time ago. Many great Clint Eastwood memories! What a guy! 😊👍
A good western
I love the fire behind Clint like he's an agent of Satan.
The town looked like Hell
He was.
Though we commonly associate fire with Satan, in truth, God destroys, punishes and cleanses with fire and Clint Eastwood is...
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God's enforcer
He's not Satan, he is the ghost of the Marshal, they point to that throughout the movie, like the woman said, "the dead don't rest without a marker of some kind."
Hell's doorkeeper. Come right in, we've been expecting you!
That shot where a building was burning behind Clint looks like it could be a scene from the Dark Tower books. Clint Eastwood is really Roland Deschain.
Eastwood is the Grim Reaper, come to exact vengeance in the name of his master, upon those who do evil.......there is no escape, not for any of us!
High Plains and Pale Rider have the same ending.
The entity takes out the bad guys one by one and then the leader in a face off and rides off alone, leaving everyone to guess who he is.
Both movies are enjoyable.
Damn tootin'. But HPD remains my firm favourite.
@@daveroche6522 Top 3 of his westerns for me: The Good, Bad, Ugly, and the two aforementioned.
Pale Rider is my favorite, though I've seen all his films several times. I imagined the "Avenging Angel" was the same in both, though Eastwood was quoted in an interview the Preacher in Pale Rider was a "straight up ghost" while never directly answering the question about Marshal Duncan's Stranger in HPD.
Geoffrey Lewis. Juliette Lewis’s father. A great character actor and a favourite of Clint’s.
Never would've known that. Can see strong resemblance.
I saw this movie when it first came out...and many times since. My guess is he's the ghost of the sheriff of lago. That sheriff discovered the mining outfit was mining on government land, and they couldn't convince the sheriff to look the other way, so the bad guys who were killed near the end of the movie are the same who killed the sheriff. Whipped him to death. The town big wigs were the ones who hired those bad guys to kill the sheriff, and the rest of the town did nothing but watch the sheriff get whipped to death.The little guy saw the murder from under the porch. In the end of the movie, the little guy said to eastwood: I never did know your name....then eastwood said: Yes you do...and left. Good classic western!!!
I love how the hero westerns always feature a small frontier town filled with a rabble of people that don't know how to take care of themselves. Because that's how the western frontier worked.
Stranger could teach current administration the difference between horses reins and what a real whip looks like and how its used
Hahaha hahaha
They still wouldn't get it!!
Biden once won a Bucking Bronco contest, it was in front of a grocery store and only cost a quarter.
You are right on the money. I saw all the videos at Del Rio, Texas and nobody there was being whipped at the hands of any horse rider.
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THE BEST WESTERN
OF ALL TIME.