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Plot:
Amid shoot-outs and existentialism, a mysterious stranger (Clint Eastwood, who also directs) is hired to protect a small town from outlaws. But his recipe for defense could be a deal with the devil, a...( read more 
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MCT:August 8, 2008ole clint will always be the tough gunslinger for all time.you gotta believe me or you can just( GO AHEAD MAKE MY DAY!).
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MCT:August 7, 2008
Clint Eastwood stars in and directs High Plains Drifter and i think it is the best western movie ever made.
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MCT:July 26, 2008
One of my all time favorite movies. Really makes you think. Not to mention you want all the townspeople to die. LOL!
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MCT:April 19, 2008
The very best of the "Man With No Name" series and much better than the Oscar winner, "Unforgiven".
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MCT:April 10, 2008
Clint Eastwood stars in and directs this obvious homage to Sergio Leone as he resurrects the man with no name character, as an enigmatic gunslinger rides into the town of Lago and promptly kills the gunmen hired by the townsfolk to protect them against a trio of vengeful outlaws. They offer him the run of the town to replace them, but it soon emerges that he has a hidden agenda of his own. Another fine western from Clint, and laced with a healthy dose of the supernatural, this film is unusual in it's complete absence of a "good guy". The morality is not even grey; virtually every character is a self centred immoral hypocrite! Clint himself hasn't the slightest interest in justice, just bloody retribution which he gets in a great climax which sees him shooting it out in the blood red painted, flaming wreckage of the town. Stylish, gritty and an obvious inspiration for fantasy revenge flicks such as The Crow and Eastwood's own Pale Rider.
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MCT:March 12, 2008
This movie was all kinds of awesomeness, Clint is such a fucking badass. Clint rapes a woman and she likes it, then he makes a midget named Mordecai the mayor and sheriff, and then paints the town red and renames it HELL.
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MCT:March 3, 2008A violent western directed by and starring Clint Eastwood, very much in the style of the spaghetti western.
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MCT:February 26, 2008I guess I just didn't "get" it. Sure, there were some good visuals, and Clint is as Clint is, but I found myself wanting it to end.
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MCT:February 16, 2008A dark, cruel supernatural western...There will be no one like Clint Eastwood again the western movie industry!he's a genious!
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MCT:February 7, 2008I love Clint Eastwood otherwise I would not have watched this movie, but some of his movies weren't up to par.
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MCT:January 27, 2008
I love this one, one of my fav's. How one stranger rides into a little town and starts all kinds of trouble by how he helps them out. Love it. Paint the town red and invite the bad guys to a party...that's so Eastwood...
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MCT:January 25, 2008
Synopsis: Clint Eastwood's second film as a director (and his first Western) is a variation on the "man with no name" theme, starring Eastwood as the drifter known only as "the Stranger." He rides into the desert town of Lagos and is quickly attacked by three ...
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Verna Bloom, Marianna Hill, Mitch Ryan, Jack Ging
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MCT:January 19, 2008
The message of this film was a bit weak for me: "Selfish, cowarly town get's treated bad by the reincarnation of the man they left to die". Still, it's Clint...so enjoy!
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MCT:January 17, 2008
This is one of the great Westerns ever made. Clint is amazing and out for revenge. Paint the town Red!!
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MCT:January 4, 2008
This is the best western ever made, it has the best lead actor of any western, and a superb story line, based on revenge, from an unknown/ghost figure, with some of the most classic scenes! What else could you ask for?
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MCT:January 2, 2008
An homage of sorts to Eastwood's Spaghetti Western days. Story is about a mysterious ghost-like stranger who is hired to fight against a group of felons that infest a small town. Beautiful widescreen photographic compositions.
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MCT:December 26, 2007
Enjoyable for the spaghetti western fans (even though this isn't italian directed). others might not enjoy it as much.
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MCT:November 18, 2007
many consider this to be eastwoods fourth film as the infamous "man with no name". this is the first film that he did with this sort of character that was not directed by sergio leone, and there are enough differences between the man with no name from leones trilogy and eastwoods character in this film to believe that the character is similar, but not the same. eastwood directed this film, and in it a few of the "man with no name's" trademarks are missing and the explination for this character is probably ore supernatural. pay attention to the final 2 minutes of the film, and you will see that eastwood is actually probably playing a ghost in this film. it was a decent film but there really was no character that you could root for. even as the hero, eastwood was more of an antihero with some terrible characterisitics, like a scene when he rapes a woman. this was a decent flick and worth a watch, but doesnt stand up to the man with no name trilogy that it is often compared to.
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MCT:October 8, 2007
The stranger comes back again into an isolated, affected town whose peace and tranquility are disturbed by outsiders cowboyns and gunfighters, until Clint Eastwood came, only to get things solved in his way. Perhaps the most totally badass and son of a b!tch Eastwood I've ever seen. Good western overall.
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MCT:September 28, 2007
More of a supernatural revenge story than a western, Clint just finished directing the horror flick, Play Misty For Me, before taking this on. He plays a ghost who kills people with the help of a midget.
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MCT:September 7, 2007
Clint's most unusual western. Reportedly based on the Spaghetti Western "Django il bastardo". which I plan on seeing.
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MCT:August 21, 2007
My first non-Leone western! It is surely not as great as the Leone's westerns, but it was quite good actually. The fact is that I was so much used to Leone's cinematography and also to Morricone tracks that I think I was waiting for them during the movie. But High Plains Drifter didn't reach the cleverness I was waiting for. Eastwood is 'The Stranger', as always, and he kills everybody, no surprise... But I didn't really liked his character, and that's a surprise. He is bad, vicious and drunk. But there are some interesting ideas in the movie.
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Eliza1990posted 34 days ago -
a great movie with 2 of my favorite all time lines"I'm faster than you'll ever live to be"and"You're gonna look real silly with that knife up your ass" sheer poetry
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