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High Plains Drifter

Name: High Plains Drifter
Director: Clint Eastwood
Genre: Western, Drama, Mystery
Released: 1973
Rating: 7.3
Cast: Clint Eastwood, Verna Bloom, Marianna Hill, Mitchell Ryan, Jack Ging

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.

1973 · Directed by Clint Eastwood · 106 min · Western · Drama · Mystery · 16 frames

Tagline

They'd never forget the day he drifted into town.

Crew

Written by: Ernest Tidyman
Cinematography: Bruce Surtees
Edited by: Ferris Webster
Music: Dee Barton
Produced by: Robert Daley

Cast

Clint Eastwood as The Stranger
Verna Bloom as Sarah Belding
Marianna Hill as Callie Travers
Mitchell Ryan as Dave Drake
Jack Ging as Morgan Allen
Stefan Gierasch as Mayor Jason Hobart
Ted Hartley as Lewis Belding
Billy Curtis as Mordecai
Geoffrey Lewis as Stacey Bridges
Scott Walker as Bill Borders

Production

Country: United States of America
Language: English
Studios: Malpaso Productions, Universal Pictures
Budget: $5,500,000
Box office: $15,700,000
Themes: gunslinger, showdown, outlaw, gunfighter, guns, shooting, outlaws

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Play Misty for Me — 1971
American Sniper — 2014
Invictus — 2009
White Hunter, Black Heart — 1990
Richard Jewell — 2019
Mystic River — 2003
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Changeling — 2008
Sully — 2016
Breezy — 1973
Hereafter — 2010
The Mule — 2018

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