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  • Опубліковано 21 вер 2021
  • The Stranger (Clint Eastwood) is the only one who can protect the town of Lago once outlaws roll in. Watch the thrilling conclusion to High Plains Drifter as he rains righteous justice upon their heads (armed with his whip and a fistful of dynamite) as the town burns down around him.
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    Clint Eastwood's second film as a director finds the celebrated action star returning to his familiar Old West stomping grounds and his internationally acclaimed role of "The Man With No Name." This time, The Stranger (Eastwood) mysteriously appears out of the heat waves of the desert and rides into the lawless, sin-ridden town of Lago. After making a name for himself with a string of blazing gun battles, The Stranger is hired by the townspeople to provide protection from three ruthless gunmen just out of jail. The Stranger quickly proceeds to paint the entire town bright red, rename it "Hell," and supply divine retribution in the fiery, pulse-pounding climax of this acclaimed western shoot-em-up.
    © 1973 Universal Studios, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
    Cast: Clint Eastwood, Verna Bloom, Marianna Hill
    Produced by: Robert Daley
    Directed by: Clint Eastwood
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  • @Likedeeler1399
    @Likedeeler1399 9 місяців тому +97

    I' m a 60 years old German and i grew up with Charles Bronson and Clint Eastwood. My heros in my childhood...

    • @scottknode898
      @scottknode898 5 місяців тому +3

      I am 37 years old but I am a fan of Clint Eastwood’s westerns and cop films as grew up on Eastwood with my Dad who is 64 years old

    • @alanlane3670
      @alanlane3670 3 місяці тому +3

      And Rambo !!!!!

  • @gandanek
    @gandanek 8 місяців тому +128

    Geofrey Lewis is the star of this scene. His facial expression when Eastwood throws the whip into the bar is awesome. Truly a criminally underrated actor.

    • @earlmcpherson6913
      @earlmcpherson6913 7 місяців тому +6

      Him and Clint were best friends, so I read.

    • @kevinmalone3210
      @kevinmalone3210 6 місяців тому +7

      Eastwood had some good actors in his movies over the years. Geoffrey Lewis was one of them.

    • @curtisbryce5096
      @curtisbryce5096 5 місяців тому +3

      He was very underrated as an actor.

    • @namoi45
      @namoi45 4 місяці тому +2

      "Orville"

    • @theman2017inc
      @theman2017inc 4 місяці тому +2

      He enjoyed later roles, as the vampirsed craftsman in Salem’s Lot then the father figure to Jean Claude Van Damme in DOUBLE IMPACT

  • @ek2156
    @ek2156 2 роки тому +856

    Gotta love how Clint Eastwood was loyal to his actor friends! How many of these actors are in his other movies.... Too many to count! It is good to have friends like Mr. Eastwood.

    • @JonathanReynolds1
      @JonathanReynolds1 Рік тому +33

      Like Albert Popwell who was in 5 Eastwood movies (including the first 4 of the 5 Dirty Harry movies).

    • @daveroche6522
      @daveroche6522 Рік тому +42

      Hell yeah. Himself and Albert Popwell for exaple got on very well by all accounts. Hence Albert appearing in various guises in the Dirty Harry series (Bankrobber/Pimp/Big Ed/Horace). "Hey - I gots to know...."

    • @leejee88
      @leejee88 Рік тому +20

      Easier to work with people your familar with Everytime than the ones you're not

    • @daveroche6522
      @daveroche6522 Рік тому

      @@leejee88 I'd have said easier to work with people you get on with, instead of a bunch of moronic a-holes (go ahead, try 9 years in a brainmorgue of an office with creative & imaginative sorry, overpaid & incompetent civil servants....).

    • @jamsheadaziz3999
      @jamsheadaziz3999 Рік тому +21

      Especially in Every which way but loose

  • @Stormstallion
    @Stormstallion 2 роки тому +421

    One of the greatest ghost stories ever filmed.

    • @jerryjustice8026
      @jerryjustice8026 2 роки тому +10

      Ive never read the book, but i was told least by the book it was his brother

    • @timburns4880
      @timburns4880 2 роки тому +57

      @@jerryjustice8026, then explain how "The Stranger" comes out of the desert from nothing at the beginning and goes back into nothing at the end? He was the ghost of Jim Duncan.

    • @jerryjustice8026
      @jerryjustice8026 2 роки тому +29

      @@timburns4880 I get the movie yeah I think he was a ghost too. I mean at the end when the little guy said I never knew your name he replied yes you do, but I was referring to the book

    • @scotthvac417
      @scotthvac417 2 роки тому +13

      @@jerryjustice8026 there is a video interview of eastwood talking about leaving the brother angle out of the movie. it`s on youtube somewhere

    • @jerryjustice8026
      @jerryjustice8026 2 роки тому +16

      @@scotthvac417 I perfer the angle he took even the erie music in the movie

  • @PG_FISHING
    @PG_FISHING 2 роки тому +220

    Clint Eastwood will never be replaced!

  • @toddandangelbrowning2920
    @toddandangelbrowning2920 2 роки тому +382

    I remember as a kid watching all these old westerns with my dad. I never knew then how today, they would help me recall those memories now that he has passed on. Miss you dad.

    • @oldsaerotech1167
      @oldsaerotech1167 2 роки тому +11

      Our family, our friends,remain in our hearts FOREVER, through memories as such.
      Peace.

    • @that_thing_I_do
      @that_thing_I_do 2 роки тому +7

      😉 I remember watching all these new westerns as a kid

    • @muttinchops3708
      @muttinchops3708 Рік тому +1

      Yes I a great memory s of my dad getting drunk and hitting me the good old days smfh.

    • @leejee88
      @leejee88 Рік тому +4

      I remember they used to play them on tbs passed my bedtime... My uncle would let me stay up late to watch it ..

    • @wolfthequarrelsome504
      @wolfthequarrelsome504 Рік тому +5

      It's good to be loyal to your father.

  • @TomCurless
    @TomCurless Місяць тому +1

    I love his movies!! In a nutshell they were well produced, fascinating, man with no name, he always injected humor in them and stood up for the little guy

  • @namelesswarrior4760
    @namelesswarrior4760 2 роки тому +609

    Clint Eastwood was and always will be the "BADDEST MAN" in the wild wild west. THE MAN THE MYTH THE LEGEND

    • @pilot8602
      @pilot8602 2 роки тому +10

      Lee Van Cleef?

    • @pilot8602
      @pilot8602 2 роки тому +1

      @Troy Hooker what?

    • @shanegaffey9257
      @shanegaffey9257 2 роки тому +1

      ✌️👇🤙👉✍️💯

    • @davea4245
      @davea4245 2 роки тому +14

      The boogeyman check his closet before bed to make sure Chuck Norris is hiding in there, but Chuck Norris checks his closet to make sure Clint Eastwood isn't in there!

    • @johnhipp8267
      @johnhipp8267 2 роки тому +4

      @@davea4245 And they are all afraid of John Wick.

  • @kevinbedard27
    @kevinbedard27 2 роки тому +993

    I love how The Stranger not only punishes the bad guys, but he also punishes the entire town for hiring them!

    • @Jonno2summit
      @Jonno2summit 2 роки тому +130

      Clint often punished those in his movies who were simple cowards who said or did nothing while others commited crimes. I like that theme. As Edmund Burke is often quoted, "All it takes for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing".

    • @vancouver4sure
      @vancouver4sure 2 роки тому +14

      He punished the town for doing nothing when he was hung

    • @mythsislittlefarie7635
      @mythsislittlefarie7635 2 роки тому +56

      @@vancouver4sure the sheriff character was whipped to death, not hung thats a different Eastwood movie. The character made a deal with heaven and hell to punish all the wicked, towns people for their cowardice and the outlaws for his death.

    • @LordZontar
      @LordZontar 2 роки тому +85

      The town got punished not for hiring these goons in the first place and not even only for their cowardice in letting Jim Duncan die, but for all of them assenting in one form or another to the Marshal's murder because he was about to bring evidence that Lago didn't have proper title to the land on which the gold mine was located. The people who ran the mining company had Stacy Bridges and his cousins do the killing (and then betrayed and set them up on the robbery charge) but the whole town allowed the murder to protect their community interest in the mine and thus became wholly corrupted. That was the hidden crime of Lago, the sin for which the whole town was held for judgment. The very few who tried to object or even intervene, like Sarah Belling, or were too terrified to act like Mordecai, were suppressed and ended up having to live with the guilt along with everyone else because they had nowhere else to go.

    • @paoloc3318
      @paoloc3318 2 роки тому +3

      @@vancouver4sure he wasn't hung . He was whipped man

  • @exnihilo2601
    @exnihilo2601 2 роки тому +236

    Wow.
    This never gets old.
    Clint is the master.

  • @HerrinSchadenfreude
    @HerrinSchadenfreude Рік тому +260

    My favorite Western by anyone ever. That moment when everyone relives the whipping and several people suddenly realize as a result who The Stranger is. Priceless.

    • @haylobos8261
      @haylobos8261 Рік тому +1

      He dies and borns again. As a range bum.

    • @neoanderson4006
      @neoanderson4006 Рік тому +18

      In that case, I recommend that you watch Unforgiven.

    • @bibberp4036
      @bibberp4036 Рік тому +7

      @@neoanderson4006 That is by far my favorite Eastwood movie. Agree. Ten thumbs up!

    • @paulbenedetti7839
      @paulbenedetti7839 Рік тому

      ❤❤❤4444

    • @endicotto
      @endicotto Рік тому

      No way. Unforgiven, Pale Rider, outlaw Josef Wales all better

  • @protorhinocerator142
    @protorhinocerator142 Рік тому +177

    This is easily one of my favorite Clint Eastwood movies ever.
    He's a cold, calculated, vengeful force and he doesn't afraid of anyone.

    • @emmitmeyer1368
      @emmitmeyer1368 Рік тому +7

      Definitely a great, But I'd have to choose "The Outlaw Josey Wales".

    • @donjohn2695
      @donjohn2695 Рік тому +8

      He is a avenging angel

    • @mottthehoople693
      @mottthehoople693 Рік тому +6

      @@donjohn2695 or a ghost..same in pale rider

    • @touchofgrey5372
      @touchofgrey5372 9 місяців тому +2

      "...doesn't..."??? How about isn't afraid!

    • @Yonder27
      @Yonder27 8 місяців тому +1

      🎭 The wrong choice of words is a UA-cam trademark.

  • @FerretJohn
    @FerretJohn 2 роки тому +246

    The looks on everyones faces as the whip came down was pure Gold. They finally knew.

  • @user-dd2gf1it1t
    @user-dd2gf1it1t 7 місяців тому +7

    Arguably the best scene that Geoffrey Lewis (Stacey) was ever in. May he be resting in peace.

  • @PaulJohnson-vn7eh
    @PaulJohnson-vn7eh Рік тому +22

    The fire makes him look demonic, and it looks amazing. Clint was definitely on his game with this one.

  • @georgerizo9285
    @georgerizo9285 2 роки тому +42

    Clint Eastwood is simply the best,a American Legend unmatched.

    • @haylobos8261
      @haylobos8261 Рік тому

      Made in Italy. It was the dollar movies that put him on the map.

    • @andynieuwenhuis7833
      @andynieuwenhuis7833 Рік тому

      He got His start in the TV series called RawHide. It was a western about a wagon train going west.

    • @donjohn2695
      @donjohn2695 Рік тому

      Arguably the greatest American that's ever lived

  • @nhmooytis7058
    @nhmooytis7058 2 роки тому +170

    A character who truly deserves the word ICONIC!

  • @wilsonesparagoza4528
    @wilsonesparagoza4528 2 роки тому +18

    My favorite Hollywood actor.CLINT EASTWOOD.

  • @davidrubinlang8301
    @davidrubinlang8301 Рік тому +85

    Everyone can count on Clint Eastwood every time. He never failed; he killed them all.

    • @akizeta
      @akizeta Рік тому +3

      Just don't be Harry Callahan's partner.

    • @donjohn2695
      @donjohn2695 Рік тому +1

      Nobody beats clint

    • @zelphx
      @zelphx Рік тому

      And no dramatic stalling, either.

    • @zelphx
      @zelphx Рік тому +1

      @@akizeta TRUE.

    • @darthwiizius
      @darthwiizius 9 місяців тому

      @@akizeta
      To paraphrase the Mayor, you have a point.

  • @user-rm7nt5bq6b
    @user-rm7nt5bq6b 9 місяців тому +6

    A character who truly deserves the word ICONIC!. One of the most haunting endings ever. And satisfying..

  • @chuckyanus3563
    @chuckyanus3563 Рік тому +29

    After his success with the spaghetti westerns, Eastwood's best westerns IMO were High Plains Drifter, The Outlaw Josey Wales, and Unforgiven. All have to be at the top of the lists of the best ever. Phenomenal actor and director. A shame his time with us probably isn't a whole lot longer.

    • @robertmoore2527
      @robertmoore2527 Рік тому +9

      and Pale Rider.

    • @chuckyanus3563
      @chuckyanus3563 Рік тому +2

      @@robertmoore2527 - yep, also good.

    • @chrisreed3929
      @chrisreed3929 Рік тому +1

      It will be a sad day indeed when we lose Clint. But he will have left an amazing legacy that people will enjoy for years to come.

    • @james_ford86
      @james_ford86 Рік тому

      @@chrisreed3929 What dafuq are you talking about? Death is afraid of Clint Eastwood. He'll go when he's good and ready, and not a second before then. You got that!? lol

    • @chuckselvage3157
      @chuckselvage3157 Рік тому

      @@robertmoore2527 I saw that at the flicks. Underrated.

  • @NYVoice
    @NYVoice Рік тому +64

    One of the most haunting endings ever. And satisfying.

  • @philiphatfield5666
    @philiphatfield5666 Рік тому +66

    My Dad and I went to see this movie in a tiny second run cinema, and we both loved it. Clint Eastwood's directing work on "High Plains Drifter" was impressive. The climax sequence set at night with all of the great action and fires was masterfully done. With this great western, Clint Eastwood had become a top class director.

    • @murrismiller2312
      @murrismiller2312 Рік тому

      Quigley Down Under almost went to the same place as this movie...

    • @philiphatfield5666
      @philiphatfield5666 Рік тому

      "Quigley Down Under" simply didn't work because Tom Selleck was too 'likeable' in the role; the movie had no edge. Selleck was excellent, however, in several great TV made westerns.

    • @CraigGrant-sh3in
      @CraigGrant-sh3in Рік тому +2

      Clint is known for shooting shadowy movies. He likes the mood and the partial hiding of faces and figures . You see it in "The Outlaw Josie Wales " when he kills the guys in the traders post. He also likes filming in the fall because of the low lighting

    • @OroborusFMA
      @OroborusFMA Рік тому

      None of what you said passed my giggle test. It's ham-fisted incoherence - and that's being generous.

    • @spookynightthelegendofclar4049
      @spookynightthelegendofclar4049 11 місяців тому

      So, you saw this movie? Well, maybe you can tell me why Clint Eastwood ordered everyone to paint the town RED? I don't get it

  • @kevinnobody3052
    @kevinnobody3052 2 роки тому +221

    My all time favorite Clint movie. It still gives me chills to this day when he rides off into the desert at the end......... And disappears........

    • @joethekinghawk7514
      @joethekinghawk7514 2 роки тому +25

      He didn't just disappear, he just faded away, very spooky and supernatural. I guess Mordechai (midget) carving his name on his tombstone Gave his soul final rest.

    • @andynieuwenhuis7833
      @andynieuwenhuis7833 Рік тому +18

      @@joethekinghawk7514 This--This is EXACTLY why his Ghost came back. He KNEW the 3 men who killed him, where to be let out from jail. He Also came back, to get his REVENGE on the town's people who DIDN'T do ANYTHING to stop his death.

    • @jamsheadaziz3999
      @jamsheadaziz3999 Рік тому +20

      And at the start of the film he appears out of the dusty plains with the eerie music.

    • @mikeg9305
      @mikeg9305 Рік тому +9

      @@jamsheadaziz3999 ......High Plains Drifter!!!

    • @64fairlane305
      @64fairlane305 Рік тому +5

      Far from beeing my fav, Outlaw Josey Wales is hard to match

  • @whitetower67
    @whitetower67 2 роки тому +221

    Pretty close to being a “Western Horror” flick. Definitely a prototype for the whole genre.

    • @joebenzz
      @joebenzz 2 роки тому +20

      The music helps convey that too :O

    • @LordZontar
      @LordZontar 2 роки тому +20

      Gothic Western. Eastwood's Pale Rider (1985) was a dark remake of Shane in that same vein and Preacher a far more explicit avatar of Death in that movie.

    • @jrkorman
      @jrkorman 2 роки тому +3

      What do you mean "Close to"

    • @dawood121derful
      @dawood121derful 2 роки тому +1

      Is there any thing else like it?

    • @billmurray7473
      @billmurray7473 2 роки тому +6

      This SHOULD be a new trend.
      Western Horror.
      RED DEAD REDEMPTION and
      Stephen King's DARK TOWER
      series are a step in this direction.
      All we need is for Netflix to
      truly take us there.

  • @markv3107
    @markv3107 2 роки тому +95

    Always loved this one, it was one of Eastwood's darker films but great none the less!!

    • @droceretik
      @droceretik 2 роки тому +2

      So because it was one of his darker films, it should not have been great? There are plenty of great, dark films.

    • @markv3107
      @markv3107 2 роки тому +6

      @@droceretik You quite obviously misinterpreted my comment. I clearly stated that I love this film and at no point said “dark” films are bad. Almost all of my favourite movies are films that are considered to be dark.

    • @georgebuller1914
      @georgebuller1914 2 роки тому +4

      I see your point. Normally 'our Clint' is a hero - through and through - but in this one he's well, he's not EXACTLY a straight-laced, 'good-guy'. Great film nonetheless. :-)

    • @ernestmccalip1109
      @ernestmccalip1109 2 роки тому +2

      John Wayne implored Eastwood NOT to make this movie.

  • @altair227
    @altair227 Рік тому +17

    Damn he not only whipped him to death but he made an example of him throwing the whip at the gangs to let them know how he got killed. Striking fear into their hearts. Love that detail.

    • @MrMnmn911
      @MrMnmn911 9 місяців тому +2

      If you see the full movie you’ll understand the meaning of all the villains and townspeople underlying horror and realization of what the whip meant.

  • @gmail4218
    @gmail4218 2 роки тому +34

    One of the most entertaining and underrated westerns ever. Clint worked his magic and charisma.

  • @Wild_Western
    @Wild_Western Рік тому +53

    God, will I miss Clint Eastwood and his No Holds Bar acting, directing and overall personality.
    An American icon!

    • @darthwiizius
      @darthwiizius 9 місяців тому

      The western genre would have died out in the 70s without Clint, he was the perfect actor for the new wave of gritty and highly stylised westerns pioneered by the Italian film industry and acted as the bridge to bring it into everyday American culture and even make it their own by doubling down on the hard edge Clint brought with his characterisation. At one point it was almost entirely only Clint that could deliver a western and sell tickets for it at the cinema, films like High Plains drifter and Pale Rider are probably the 2 best known examples of this along with Unforgiven.

  • @specialized29er86
    @specialized29er86 2 роки тому +34

    I love how Clint had the same crew in his movies.

  • @DanielDeis-qb7ko
    @DanielDeis-qb7ko 18 днів тому +1

    This is one of the darkest westerns of all time.

  • @DelightLovesMovies
    @DelightLovesMovies 2 роки тому +32

    He's an Archangel surrounded by all those flames.

    • @zuzuspetals9281
      @zuzuspetals9281 2 роки тому +1

      He’s Satan.

    • @adamcuneo7189
      @adamcuneo7189 2 роки тому +10

      @@zuzuspetals9281, No, he's not, he's the ghost of the Marshal, who's out out for revenge for what they did to him.

    • @chrisp1500
      @chrisp1500 2 роки тому +3

      When he whips his coat back to draw his gun, standing in front of the flames... Hard to think of a more bad-ass moment

  • @jonbeams9786
    @jonbeams9786 2 роки тому +18

    The dead dont rest, without a marker or a name.

  • @spacecat2821
    @spacecat2821 2 роки тому +18

    Love how at the end you can see the flames through him showing he is just a ghost

  • @tarn1135
    @tarn1135 2 роки тому +82

    Movies like this are can’t be made anymore. Truly a classic in every sense of the word.

    • @adamcuneo7189
      @adamcuneo7189 2 роки тому +9

      @Tam 113, I know, we will never see movies like this get made ever again, and it would be seen as "offensive", if made in today's wimpy society.

    • @MegaSmarterthanyou
      @MegaSmarterthanyou 2 роки тому +7

      @@adamcuneo7189 I agree pro sports is wimpy too along with wimpy society and movies , really cant stand this garbage now

    • @Meldreth56
      @Meldreth56 2 роки тому +2

      @@adamcuneo7189 I'm sorry you feel that way, but it's pure fantasy that a film line this wouldn't get made today because it would "offend" anyone. Of course there are trends in movies, of course there are agendas, but to think that society has become too "wimpy" to watch a few immoral guys get punished by the incarnation of death is ludicrous.

    • @trtr-bc3zl
      @trtr-bc3zl 2 роки тому +7

      It's made already do no point making it again 😒

    • @Theydas
      @Theydas 2 роки тому +1

      It's offensive because white man.

  • @jeffballard7632
    @jeffballard7632 2 роки тому +52

    Eastwood has always been a brilliant director and storyteller.....

  • @mr.robinson1982
    @mr.robinson1982 2 роки тому +80

    He has had so many great movies, that it's hard to pick just one.

    • @exnihilo2601
      @exnihilo2601 2 роки тому

      For me it's either High Plains Drifter or Unforgiven.

    • @oldcountryboy
      @oldcountryboy 2 роки тому +10

      What about the greatest movie of all time the good the bad and the ugly

    • @diegocristianpolastri6349
      @diegocristianpolastri6349 2 роки тому +4

      @@oldcountryboyGreatest western of all time

    • @321snoot
      @321snoot 2 роки тому +1

      @@diegocristianpolastri6349 Agreed!! It's a masterpiece.

    • @Intrepid_Crusader1096
      @Intrepid_Crusader1096 2 роки тому

      What did you think of Cry Macho?

  • @twolak1972
    @twolak1972 2 роки тому +16

    One of the best westerns ever made, right up there with Rio Bravo and unforgiven. Jeff Lewis is so underrated , acted in many of Clints films.

  • @daveroche6522
    @daveroche6522 Рік тому +59

    Clints facial response to "It won't cost you one cent more than regular hotel rates" from the preacher cannot be beaten. Myself and some of my best friends still use that line to this day - works every time!

    • @HerrinSchadenfreude
      @HerrinSchadenfreude Рік тому +12

      LOL! Another favorite:
      "Those are paying customers! I can't just kick them out! If I evict them where are they supposed to go?!"
      "Out."

    • @gordongate
      @gordongate Рік тому +1

      the dwarf worked out who/what the stranger was,

  • @rogerkay8603
    @rogerkay8603 2 роки тому +36

    Unforgiven and Outlaw Josey Wales are excellent, but this is the best Clint Western bar none.

    • @mikemcdonald2755
      @mikemcdonald2755 2 роки тому +4

      I don't know. I like Pale Rider, Hang em high, and Two mules for sister Sarah more!

    • @biketech60
      @biketech60 2 роки тому +2

      @@mikemcdonald2755 Nothing quite like a good piece of Hickory ! Hand full of whoop ass

    • @M0butu
      @M0butu 2 роки тому +2

      I'm more in the goodbadugly camp.

    • @zuzuspetals9281
      @zuzuspetals9281 2 роки тому +1

      @RUDE AWAKENING it had a powerful message, but you had to see beyond the surface.

    • @derekbuckler3859
      @derekbuckler3859 2 роки тому +1

      Um, noooo, it is great. But pale rider is my personal fav, either way opinions vary. I was actually telling my younger girlfriend about that movie, i think i ll just watch high plains drifter, and pale rider with her.

  • @Legendzzz-nc9wb
    @Legendzzz-nc9wb 2 роки тому +49

    It was satisfying seeing him whip them for revenge

  • @twix6957
    @twix6957 2 роки тому +19

    Legend of western legend of cinema Clint Eastwood

  • @justthetruth1
    @justthetruth1 Рік тому +60

    Clints use of the same group of actors across so many films is amazing

    • @JohnDavies-cn3ro
      @JohnDavies-cn3ro 9 місяців тому +1

      Rather like 'John Ford's private Repatory Company' with all his old friends

  • @williamcap2236
    @williamcap2236 Рік тому +10

    No one does westerns like Clint Eastwood ! The master !

  • @Chipchase780
    @Chipchase780 2 роки тому +147

    The characters, acting and direction are sublime. Clint places the bar very high for the quality he demands for one of his movies.
    Seeing the tough bad guys wetting their knickers when the realisation dawns is a very satisfying climax to this film.

    • @MrManfly
      @MrManfly Рік тому +5

      Clint dealing out justice as only he can!! 👍🏻😄⚰️

    • @koro287
      @koro287 Рік тому +1

      True,i love the blood immediately after the gunshot !

  • @Lunacyk
    @Lunacyk Рік тому +5

    Clint was leagues and leagues beyond Wayne in EVERYTHING!

  • @timontide6404
    @timontide6404 9 місяців тому +2

    It's great how even shots into the air are ricochets.

  • @gordonreed2736
    @gordonreed2736 2 роки тому +32

    Loved Eastwood's cast.... Went on to make several movies with him.RIP boys

  • @tigerone2353
    @tigerone2353 Рік тому +12

    Clint eastwood, great guy great actor, great director. Has a lot of friends and keeps them in a lot of his films. They'll never be another Clint

  • @Fultonfalcons86
    @Fultonfalcons86 2 роки тому +15

    R.I.P Geoffery Lewis............

    • @terryely7341
      @terryely7341 2 роки тому

      Je eas one of the funniest guys in the movies. Eastwood and he made s tesm.

    • @kingpatrickodonnell9306
      @kingpatrickodonnell9306 2 роки тому

      He had 9 kids he had it great

    • @Bootmahoy88
      @Bootmahoy88 2 роки тому

      This gave Lewis a good send off, ha!

  • @angelamorgan3504
    @angelamorgan3504 2 роки тому +20

    I love Westerns. especially Clint Eastwood.Movies Greatest Actor 🤣🤣🤣👍👍👍😜😜😎💓💓🤗🤗🙌🙌🙌

  • @douglasgugel2752
    @douglasgugel2752 2 роки тому +21

    Hollywood didn't think ol Clint was good enough boy were they wrong !!! So he went to Italy made 3 legendary westerns with Legendary director Sergio Leone and totally brilliant soundtracks by Ennio Morricone and the rest is history then Hollywood knew they had a huge brilliant star on thier hands and did thier best to get Eastwood !!! Just like Sylvester Stallone , Clint Eastwood did it his way and would not accept rejection or take no for an answer and funny thing is Eastwood and Stallone are two of the best ever right along a few other greats like Heston and Bronson and many more !!!

    • @glenncarver3896
      @glenncarver3896 Рік тому +2

      Knew an Actor who said Eastwood was not an Actor ……..He had no roles at the time……..I said Eastwood radiates with the public……..He is worth millions and I don’t think he gives a Rats Ass what you think………

    • @Leifmommy
      @Leifmommy 24 дні тому +1

      Didn't know that he went to Italy good to know eh Good for Clint Eastwood No one's is good as him this days Well Lee Van Cleef is good too and other's during his times Watching Clint Eastwood Movies I don't want to watch new actors Movies hahaha

  • @garymcaleer6112
    @garymcaleer6112 2 роки тому +129

    One of the most kick-ass closing scenes on film. Few today can compare.

    • @ernestmccalip1109
      @ernestmccalip1109 2 роки тому +2

      Amen!

    • @daveroche6522
      @daveroche6522 Рік тому +6

      Of course they can't. Creativity and imagination are now taboo!

    • @Madasin_Paine
      @Madasin_Paine Рік тому

      Quite so.
      And...
      It's interesting to consider how westerns and police action films changed in the '60s and '70s in light of what the population was experiencing from Vietnam war and the economic and political upheavals of the seventies...
      Not Gene Autry and not the clean shaven dapper soft hand singing cowboys..
      A lot of that grit is remixed into the Tarantino style of films that people seem to find so satisfying despite their endless lust for glorified stylized violence and sadomasochism especially against women and people who are indistinguishable as being either good or bad.
      HolyWeird Helping Who?

    • @kenhoward3512
      @kenhoward3512 4 місяці тому

      Denzel's "Equalizer" would compare favorably.

  • @ericriffel8954
    @ericriffel8954 Рік тому +7

    Despite what critics say, this will always be my favorite Clint Eastwood western.

  • @chriscarson1256
    @chriscarson1256 Рік тому +2

    Definitely in my top 5 western movies.

  • @motherflange
    @motherflange 2 роки тому +21

    Geoffrey Lewis was a talented actor. He could play hostile to great effect. I always felt he was underrated.

    • @MrMittens1974
      @MrMittens1974 2 роки тому +2

      Indeed. Great at comedy and great at being a vampire too.

    • @arhatyellow
      @arhatyellow 2 роки тому +5

      Amazing range of heavies on old westerns. Julliette Lewis's dad.

    • @daveroche6522
      @daveroche6522 Рік тому +1

      He was also superb at doing dry comedy. RIP Sir.

    • @arhatyellow
      @arhatyellow Рік тому

      @@daveroche6522 So true. Had a certain energy he could project and adjust for any situation, as needed. Loved the coldness in his eyes. Great character actor. ✌

    • @bradleybrown8399
      @bradleybrown8399 Рік тому

      underrated, he says...😑

  • @killbill5486
    @killbill5486 Рік тому +4

    Sad that no more generations will experience watching a classic like this from the back of their parents station wagon at a drive-in theatre. Good days.

  • @MrScottskiuk
    @MrScottskiuk 2 роки тому +18

    This was always my favourite Western. Absolutely superb!

  • @obsidianswellproductions5651
    @obsidianswellproductions5651 Рік тому +4

    That slight smile on Mordechai's face.....perfect.

  • @thomasjones4265
    @thomasjones4265 Рік тому +8

    I love it at the very end when Clint's character rides by to say goodbye to Mordecai,and Mordecai says I never did know your name,and Clint says Yes You Do,Great Scene...

  • @kimdurig1322
    @kimdurig1322 2 роки тому +48

    The actor who was whipped to death later played Skinny in Unforgiven, Anthony James, passed in 2020.

    • @289cobra9
      @289cobra9 2 роки тому +5

      He was in a lot of movies / TV shows.

    • @brandonallen3289
      @brandonallen3289 2 роки тому +10

      And In the Heat of the Night.

    • @289cobra9
      @289cobra9 2 роки тому +3

      @@brandonallen3289
      💯% correct 👍

    • @Madbandit77
      @Madbandit77 2 роки тому +5

      He was a thug in "Blue Thunder".

    • @LordZontar
      @LordZontar 2 роки тому +5

      The smiling hearse driver in Burnt Offerings (1976).

  • @dynjarren8355
    @dynjarren8355 2 роки тому +40

    I love how uses that whip to get Justice. He strangled that guy and they all just stand around frozen with fear.
    The leader doesn’t know who he’s up against and then at the end yells out Who are You? As he’s about to die. But there’s no answer. The silence is deafening and scary because they know there’s a ghost killer exacting revenge on them. Clint even Hangs ‘‘em High!
    He whispers: Help Me! Help Me!
    But they don’t get it.
    He’s an Avenger.
    One of my favorite Eastwood movies! He even painted the Town Red because it was like Hell.

    • @joethekinghawk7514
      @joethekinghawk7514 2 роки тому +6

      Help me, help me. Spooky to know that Marshall Duncan soul is crying for justice.

    • @JohnK-ph3vw
      @JohnK-ph3vw Рік тому +2

      I remember as a kid (I was 6 or 7) watching this with my dad.
      The “help me…help me” was so haunting and fascinating to me-and “who are you” just was chilling to “child me.”
      Now I know…it’s vengeance-death has come for you.

    • @dynjarren8355
      @dynjarren8355 Рік тому +3

      @@JohnK-ph3vw It’s still a cool movie and very mystical and eerie even! I still like it alot along with Outlaw Josey Wales, the Spaghetti 🍝Westerns and Dirty Harry Series of films. What a career and life Eastwood has had! He just turned 90 and he’s still alive! Wow! He must be healthy but Dick Van Dyke has got him beat! He just turned 95! They both have their mental faculties which is critical in old age!
      God Bless them both!
      May they both live to be 101!

  • @thomasmcdade1004
    @thomasmcdade1004 7 місяців тому +1

    Saw this movie back on November 5, 2022 at home, when I was a Senior and it was a gloomy day!!

  • @curtisbrown5939
    @curtisbrown5939 2 роки тому +1

    Clint Eastwood for president.

  • @santhanaraj5863
    @santhanaraj5863 Рік тому +3

    The terrified and shell-shocked expressions of those faces as the whip tore through the flesh tells you ... they know that's the Whipping of Revenge for Blood... Priceless!!

  • @erikramaekers63
    @erikramaekers63 2 роки тому +25

    Great supernatural western.Just look at Mordecai's(Billy Curtis) face in the last scene

  • @EIixir
    @EIixir 2 роки тому +64

    The man with no name is like a force of pure will. They don't make characters like this any more.

    • @adamcuneo7189
      @adamcuneo7189 2 роки тому +11

      And they won't ever be able to, because no one can ever replace Clint.

    • @nobunaga-oda
      @nobunaga-oda 2 роки тому +4

      @@adamcuneo7189 👍🏻😍

    • @markh3271
      @markh3271 2 роки тому +7

      While that is true, this is not part of that "series". Clint has a name in this movie, its just not revealed until the end. Mordecai is carving his name into the grave marker as Clint rides off. I think it was John Duncan. Not sure as it was a long time ago that I last watched this movie.

    • @289cobra9
      @289cobra9 2 роки тому +9

      @@markh3271
      It was. Marshall John Duncan.

    • @289cobra9
      @289cobra9 2 роки тому +4

      @@adamcuneo7189
      His son Scott Eastwood. He looks just like him.

  • @nealjolly5434
    @nealjolly5434 2 роки тому +57

    The spirit of a murdered lawman possesses a wondering gunslinger. Returns to the town he was murdered and plots his revenge on the cowards of that town and the men who killed him. A powerful ghost story and a great film. Eastwood at his best and the second movie he directed and stared in.

    • @dannyboidee
      @dannyboidee 2 роки тому +4

      wouldn't say possessed, but rather apparated into the world as a wandering gunslinger to throw off suspicions of him being the marshal

    • @nealjolly5434
      @nealjolly5434 2 роки тому +2

      @@dannyboidee You may want to read up on Clint's original writings and adaptations of the screen play. The marshal was killed. No one knew who he was when he came into town. If he had been the marshal, they would have known.

    • @graytonw5238
      @graytonw5238 2 роки тому +5

      @@nealjolly5434 I always wondered about that. I thought it was supposed to be the ghost of the sheriff brought back in physical form to take his revenge, but I always wondered why nobody recognized him. So if he did somehow possess a living gunslinger, that would solve the recognition problem. Yet I seem to remember a scene from the movie, a flashback where we see the sheriff murdered, and it was Eastwood himself who clearly was the sheriff. And both the fading in and fading out of the gunslinger at the beginning and end of the movie seems to imply he wasn't a real human.

    • @nealjolly5434
      @nealjolly5434 2 роки тому +1

      @@graytonw5238 Understood, but I was going on what Eastwood wrote in his original notes of the movie. The screen play. A ghost can not take physical form, yet the fading in and out does pose a question. Not being recognized. I would say that the spirit within distorted the wonder's physical body giving him the appearance it's formal self. Therefor looking like the sheriff, but not to the people of the town. They only see a stranger. My thoughts only.

    • @graytonw5238
      @graytonw5238 2 роки тому +1

      @@nealjolly5434 Ah, good point. Thus we as the audience see the sheriff's real appearance when looking at the gunslinger, but the townspeople wouldn't because they're seeing the gunslinger's external appearance (I'm guessing). I'll certainly bow to the original notes and screenplay from Eastwood himself, since that's the true source of the movie and story. One of Eastwood's best in any event.

  • @showcasecharlie11
    @showcasecharlie11 Рік тому +5

    Two of the best icons in western movies..RIP Geoffrey Lewis... when you make friends with Clint, you're friends for life it appears.

  • @rachelspellman5511
    @rachelspellman5511 2 місяці тому +1

    A fantastic western ghost story ❤

  • @robertmastnak581
    @robertmastnak581 2 роки тому +12

    Clint Eastwood,a living legend.

  • @wiltner
    @wiltner 2 роки тому +18

    Geoffrey Lewis. Juliette Lewis’s father. A great character actor and a favourite of Clint’s.

    • @robertward8130
      @robertward8130 2 роки тому

      Never would've known that. Can see strong resemblance.

  • @SonofDavid0814
    @SonofDavid0814 Рік тому +4

    The sign on the poster was right.
    "THEY'LL NEVER FORGET THE DAY HE CAME TO TOWN!"
    AND, Who exactly was this mysterious man? The spirit of vengeance? The good sheriff's ghost? A relative or a town person who witnessed the murder?
    We'll never truly know!
    However, what we do know is that this film was and always will be an all time classic! Thank You Mr. Eastwood!

  • @gazof-the-north5708
    @gazof-the-north5708 8 місяців тому

    NO CGI, just good old fashioned acting. CLASSIC western movie.

  • @erepsekahs
    @erepsekahs 2 місяці тому +1

    That thaaarrrr's Clint Eastwood, an' ja don't wanna mess with his scriptwriters, cos he always lives an' he always wins.

  • @broddigan5230
    @broddigan5230 2 роки тому +7

    One of the best horror-westerns

  • @1dayatatime186
    @1dayatatime186 2 роки тому +15

    One of my favorite movie scenes ever. I was amazed first time i watched it. Still am.

  • @alexwatson5507
    @alexwatson5507 2 роки тому +7

    Clint Eastwood is my favourite actor of all time.

  • @jslade60
    @jslade60 2 роки тому +28

    I like just before he died Stacey looked up and said Marshall! He finally realized who it was!

    • @ernestmccalip1109
      @ernestmccalip1109 2 роки тому +4

      When Clint walks out at a distance to confront Stacy, his head looks like it has horns. You don't see the brim of his hat initially but his head definitely looks like it has horns though barely imperceptible. And he whispers "Hey" to get Stacy to turn around.

    • @giraffesareselfish9563
      @giraffesareselfish9563 2 роки тому +1

      @@ernestmccalip1109 never noticed that, I will have to watch for that. Thank you

    • @carlfranz6805
      @carlfranz6805 2 роки тому +5

      I'm fairly sure he said "who are you". Twice.

    • @giraffesareselfish9563
      @giraffesareselfish9563 2 роки тому

      @@carlfranz6805 yes, I agree

  • @dannyhenderson5337
    @dannyhenderson5337 2 роки тому +3

    Eastwood keeps rolling

  • @LuciFeric137
    @LuciFeric137 2 роки тому +5

    This and "The Outlaw Josey Wales" are my 2 fav Clint Eastwood films.

    • @johnmaciejewski4
      @johnmaciejewski4 2 роки тому

      It’s a good one for sure !
      But for me it’s outlaw Josey wales and the good the bad and the ugly my top 2

    • @Toni62R
      @Toni62R 2 роки тому +1

      And pale rider...

  • @juliojjesgmailcom
    @juliojjesgmailcom 2 роки тому +6

    THE BEST WESTERN
    OF ALL TIME.

  • @robertjordan4691
    @robertjordan4691 2 роки тому +6

    Clint Eastwood is one bad-ass dude.

  • @PhiloYT1
    @PhiloYT1 9 місяців тому +4

    In a similar-themed Eastwood film, "Pale Rider," the chief bad guy eventually figures out at the moment of dying who Preacher is. "You!!"
    But in "High Plains Drifter," Stacy never does. He keeps asking, "Who are you?" Only Mordecai understands.

  • @tdjanis1721
    @tdjanis1721 2 роки тому +2

    My third best Clint Eastwood western

  • @pillsber
    @pillsber 9 місяців тому

    The single greatest western in history. Better than any other Clint Eastwood western as well as any other western movies ever made with any actors.

  • @mucksavage84
    @mucksavage84 2 роки тому +18

    That "Help me" is fucking spine chilling..

  • @jburma
    @jburma 2 роки тому +18

    Great scene in a great film.

  • @MrMnmn911
    @MrMnmn911 9 місяців тому

    This is one of my favorite of Clint Eastwood’s latter westerns.

  • @Harley.Davidson
    @Harley.Davidson Рік тому +2

    The look on Stacy's face when he sees the whip. 😎
    Priceless.
    I think Morticai always knew.
    "WHO ARE YOU"?!!

  • @0351nick-ch8ee
    @0351nick-ch8ee 2 роки тому +5

    Just about the best "revenge" scenes of any film.

  • @tarn1135
    @tarn1135 2 роки тому +17

    On a side note that bar is beautiful! The statues and everything is amazing!

  • @davidlyons8914
    @davidlyons8914 2 роки тому +1

    Ya that whip is what a whole bunch in DC. Need.

  • @olliehopnoodle4628
    @olliehopnoodle4628 11 місяців тому +2

    I got to see this and so many other great movies in the theaters as a kid. It just wished I realized what a special time it was for cinema.

  • @walterstokes3495
    @walterstokes3495 2 роки тому +4

    A Clint Eastwood classic

  • @amiehiggins2541
    @amiehiggins2541 2 роки тому +8

    Clint,fire,whip/original badass !!

  • @petejones879
    @petejones879 10 місяців тому +2

    Not seen this in decades.. Forgot his good it was

  • @finddeniro
    @finddeniro Рік тому +1

    Raw Hide..I been a enthusiastic fanatic for 60 years..
    He is a Korean Era Veteran as was my Father..
    State Side.

  • @jammer96
    @jammer96 2 роки тому +6

    One of Clint’s best movies!!

  • @gregdark4099
    @gregdark4099 2 роки тому +38

    Great movie...one of my faves. Just always wondered why the rest didn’t run out guns blazing to help their comrade

    • @oldcountryboy
      @oldcountryboy 2 роки тому +3

      They were scared and I don't think they really cared about each other When the guy got hung by the whip The other guy could have cut him down Or Shoot him down It takes like 4 minutes Died from hanging If you're next don't break And he was still wiggling And he just left him to die

    • @Kirke182
      @Kirke182 2 роки тому +5

      They were frozen with fear. They knew inside that whoever was out there had come to claim them.

    • @chrisp1500
      @chrisp1500 2 роки тому +2

      Me too

    • @joethekinghawk7514
      @joethekinghawk7514 2 роки тому +1

      @Marrow Dax something much more.