High Plains Drifter

The level of The Stranger's beer while watching the carriage as the men practice shooting at the dummies.

All houses in the city (Lago) have modern window glass of the type float glass and not "handmade" as they were until the mid-19th century.

At the ambush, the stranger places the stick of dynamite just back from the edge of the slope.

When it explodes, the explosion is a couple of feet down the slope from the edge, not where the dynamite was placed.

When the Stranger is first sipping his beer at the saloon, the bottle of whiskey is placed on the bar to the left of his glass of beer.

When he reaches for his beer while saying the line "Faster than you'll ever live to be" to the one gunfighter, the bottle of whiskey "jumps" to the right of his glass of beer so he can pretend to draw his gun yet reach for the bottle of whiskey instead.

When the town men are in the church debating their predicament, there is a plaque on the wall that quotes a scripture.

Isaiah 53:3-4 is the scripture address written at the bottom of the plaque, but the scripture written out on the plaque is only Isaiah 53:3 (kjv); verse 4 is missing.

Regarding one of the three bad guys who confront the Stranger in the barber shop.

The tall guy with the beard who is shot and crashes through the window into the street.

As he attempts to support himself against the hitching post one can clearly see the shape of an elbow protector for his left arm under his shirt.

The morning after his first night in Lago the stranger steps out of the hotel and the mayor says "good morning.

" The shadows on the ground clearly show that it is late afternoon as Lago is located on the western shore of Mono Lake.

The amount of shaving cream on The Stranger's face during the shooting of the three bad dudes in the barber shop.

When Stacey, Cole and Dan come across three campers in the mountains, they have plenty of ammo despite their guns being given back to them empty when they left prison.

However, it can be seen that their gun-belts still had ammunition in them.

The clouds in the sky appear and disappear between shots in several scenes.

When the next to last bad guy is hanged with a bull whip, as he is first hoisted he spins a little and you can clearly see that is is a rope around his neck (not a bull whip), and that it is tied in a knot with some other ropes going down the back of his shirt (obviously attached to a supporting harness).

When the stranger rides into town, huge tire tracks like those made by a truck are seen on the road.

In the scene where the stranger is taking a bath and the woman comes in to shoot him, there is an extra gun shot after the sheriff wraps her up in his arms.

In the beginning the outlaw Stacey is seen driving the J Ross Freighting wagon.

But he is supposed to be still in prison.

When The Stranger goes into the barber shop for a shave, he unbuckles and takes off his gun belt and sits in the chair.

When the three bad guys harass him, he shoots them with the gun he removed only moments before.

When The Stranger gives the Indian children the jars of candy in the general store, the jars have white plastic seals.

Plastic was unknown in the 19th century.

When the Stranger buys drinks for everybody in the saloon, the shots of the bar from behind where the glasses are stored clearly show fluorescent lighting underneath the bar.

When the bad guys return to town for the final showdown, one of the bad guys on horseback knocks one of the townspeople over a table in the street.

As the table is tipped over you can clearly see a moving blanket under the table cloth there to protect the stuntman.

Disclaimer: If you are a viewer that mainly prefers art-house-type movies, then you might as well ignore this review. In addition, if you're not able to take a Clint Eastwood's best pulse-pounding western masterpiece film, ignore this review, as well.

One of the first Westerns that took a revisionist stance as opposed to the traditional ones of the genre. Clint Eastwood plays here his favorite type of hero – Unnamed stranger .

Clint Eastwood directs and stars as the title character, a drifter who arrives in the small mining town of Lago, where he is soon confronted by three strangers who threaten and ridicule him. Eastwood soon shoots them dead, scaring the townspeople, who decide to enlist his gunfighter skills to defend them from three former residents, who are being released from prison, and are out for revenge against Lago for a betrayal.

Clint Eastwood is the man with no name. He's a gunfighter stranger who has come to Lago.

Fearful of three recently released outlaws who murdered their previous sheriff, the citizens of a small Old West town hire a mysterious gunslinger to protect them, but the stranger knows more than he lets on this offbeat western with a 'Twilight Zone' style twist. While the twist at first feels like an afterthought, it begins to make more and more sense when one reconsiders prior events, and while the gunslinger initially seems merely heartless and cruel with the way he humiliates the townsfolk when given carte blanche and unlimited store credit for his services, all of this comes across as logical in the end.

The most controversial scene in this movie concerns the taking by Clint Eastwood of a "lady" and now referred to by many posters as a rape. These people should first of all consider the context, i.

Clint Eastwood made an odd second feature as a director/star with 'High Plains Drifter' in 1973 after 'Play Misty For Me'.It is stylised like the spaghetti western sub-genre that was both immensely popular and influential in the mid to late 60's, while lingered on a while in the early 70's, and provided Eastwood with his big break.

After Eastwood part ways with legend maestro Sergio Leone he was the star in a couple of Westerns, however his first directed Western was stronger than any of those previus non-Leone related Westerns.Here this movie is clearly influenced by both Leone and Don Siegel movies, wich help Eastwood in his breakthrough carrer, Still this movie is very much different to any of the films of those directors.

A town that is being bullied by lawless bandits that are on a nonstop spree of robbing and killing. The townsfolk seem to not want to fight back, because they're afraid that it will worsen.