High Plains Drifter is a 1973 Western about a mysterious gunslinger who helps residents in a small mining down prepare for the onslaught of three vengeful ex-convicts. Directed by and starring Clint Eastwood, the movie was directly influenced by the Spaghetti Westerns of Sergio Leone (especially the "Man with No Name" trilogy that Eastwood starred in). The movie is much darker in tone that many of the other westerns of the day and contains many biblical references.
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Run Time
105 minutes
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Director
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Release Date
August 22, 1973
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Fact:
Most of the movie was filmed on location in Mono Lake, California
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Starring
Clint Eastwood, Verna Bloom, Marianna Hill and Billy Curtis
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Fact:
Western icon John Wayne was rumored to be so offended by the film's dark theme that he wrote Eastwood to complain
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Fact:
The Beastie Boys have a song off the album Paul's Boutique called "High Plains Drifter"
