High Plains Drifter [Blu-ray]

Director: Clint Eastwood, Robert Daley Clint Eastwood

Overview

In this film, a drifter wanders into the sun-parched desert town of Lagos. The town is currently in an uproar over the impending arrival of a gang of escaped convicts, who have vowed to destroy Lagos and kill everyone in sight. The drifter teaches the townsfolk how to defend themselves.

Product Details

Release Date:	10/27/2020
UPC:	0738329250904
Original Release:	1973
Rating:	R
Source:	Kl Studio Classics
Region Code:	A
Language:	English
Time:	1:45:00
Sales rank:	25,912

Special Features

Audio Commentary by Filmmaker Alex Cox; Interview with Actress Marianna Hill; Interview with actor Mitchell Ryan; Interview with actor William O'Connell; A Man named Eastwood: Vintage High Plains Drifter Promo; Trailers from Hell with Josh Olson; Trailers from Hell with Edgar WRight; Poster and Image Gallery; TV Spot; Radio Spot; Two Theatrical Trailers

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Clint Eastwood	Stranger
Verna Bloom	Sarah Belding
Mitchell Ryan	Dave Drake,Dave Drake
Jack Ging	Morgan Allen
Ted Hartley	Lewis Belding
Billy Curtis	Mordecai
Stefan Gierasch	Mayor
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
Jane Aull	Townswoman
Dan Vadis	Dan Carlin
Reid Cruickshanks	Gunsmith
James Gosa	Tommy Morris,Tommy Morris
Jack Kosslyn	Saddlemaker
Russ McCubbin	Fred Short
Belle Mitchell	Mrs. Lake
John Mitchum	Warden
Carl C. Pitti	Teamster,Teamster
Chuck Waters	Stableman
Buddy Van Horn	Marshal Jim Duncan
Mariana Hill	Callie Travers
Alex Tinne	Actor
English	Voices
Mitch Regan	Actor
Dee Barton	Composer

Technical Credits

Ernest Tidyman

Dean Riesner

Clint Eastwood	Director
Ernest Tidyman	Screenwriter
Jennings Lang	Executive Producer
Robert Daley	Producer,Director
Buddy Van Horn	Stunts
James R. Alexander	Sound Effects
William Griffith	Sound Effects
Edwin J. Somers Jr.	Sound Effects
Jerry Whittington	Sound Effects
Dean Riesner	Screenwriter
Jim Alexander	Sound/Sound Designer

Editorial Reviews

High Plains Drifter, Clint Eastwood's first Western behind the camera -- and only his second effort as a director, may owe a lot to his former collaborator Sergio Leone, but it also marks the point at which he begins to come into his own as an artist. The leisurely, dialogue-heavy asides may bog this film down at times, but it's an approach that would bear fruit later in Eastwood's directorial career. But Drifter works quite well even outside the context of Eastwood's other work, thanks to a harsh, wind-swept mysticism all its own. Leone and Eastwood's Man With No Name films helped usher in an era of revisionist Westerns, but with this film Eastwood doubles back, reconnecting those films' dark humor and mysterious loner character (introduced riding ominously through the entire length of a small town) to the realm of folk tale and myth. The script by Shaft author Ernest Tidyman is as unforgiving as its protagonist -- it might be argued that an early rape scene goes too far -- but there's no denying this film's unique appeal. It's a revisionist Western extreme even by the standards of the time. Like the Machiavellian hero who defends it, the film looks upon a superficially idyllic Western setting and finds virtually nothing to like.