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• High Plains Drifter
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Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.

High Plains Drifter is a 1973 Western movie starring and directed by Clint Eastwood, wherein he plays a character clearly influenced by the Man with No Name from Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars and its sequels. Eastwood's direction, too, was inspired by Leone, as the film utilizes often beautiful widescreen compositions (by cinematographer Bruce Surtees) very similar to those seen in the "Dollars" films. The film has a much quicker pace, however, which also indicates the stylistic influence of Eastwood's other mentor, Don Siegel. (In fact, Eastwood has noted that the graveyard set featured in the film's finale had tombstones with the names 'Sergio Leone' and 'Don Siegel' on them, intended as a comical "dedication" to both then-living directors.)

High Plains Drifter is morally complex in the manner of the spaghetti westerns, and introduces the environmental themes that were to appear in a number of Eastwood's later movies. The screenplay was written by Ernest Tidyman, and Dee Barton provided the film's eerie musical score.

This tale of vengeance eventually revolves around the Stranger and his bizarre demands and activities. Eastwood's character extracts a steep price for his help with the three returning felons: by the film's end, the town is in ruins, many of the prominent citizens are dead or missing, but the men the town has feared are dead too.

The question that has tormented the townspeople through the movie -- who is the Stranger? -- is addressed cryptically at the end. Leaving town, the Stranger encounters Mordecai, the town outcast, finishing a grave marker apparently at the Stranger's request. Mordecai says to him, "I never did know your name."

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Details

• Actors: Clint Eastwood, Verna Bloom
• Directors: Clint Eastwood
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Widescreen, Ntsc, Widescreen Letterbox
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: (Not for sale to persons under age 18.)
• Studio: Mca Home Video
• DVD Release Date: February 24, 1998
• Run Time: 105 minutes
• DVD Features:
• Available Subtitles: English, Spanish
• Available Audio Tracks: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono), French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono)

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