the film high plains drifter was principally filmed at mono lake.
the film high plains drifter was principally filmed at mono lake.
where was the film high plains drifter principally filmed?
mono lake
1973 proved another benchmark to eastwood when he directed his first western, "high plains drifter". under a joint production between malpaso and universal, the script was created by ernest tidyman, an acclaimed writer who had won an oscar for best screenplay for "the french connection". dean riesner collaborated and came up with the final plot; a tall, mysterious stranger arrives in a brooding western town where the people share a guilty secret. they hire the stranger to defend the town against three felons soon to be released but fail to recognise that they once killed this stranger in a brutal whipping and that his reappearance is supernatural. the ghostly stranger forces the people to paint the town red and names it "hell" and seeks revenge. holes in the plot were filled in with black humor and allegory, influenced by sergio leone. henry bumstead was brought in to design the eerie set, set on the shores of mono lake, bruce sartees as the cinematographer and dee barton composing the equally eerie score which ranged from typical morricone type grandeur to horror-esque shrilling. "high plains drifter" would be the first of six movies eastwood made with friend geoffrey lewis. the revisionist film received a mixed reception from critics but was a major box office success. a number of critics thought eastwood's directing was as a derivative as it was expressive with arthur knight in "saturday review" remarking that clint had "absorbed the approaches of siegel and leone and fused them with his own paranoid vision of society". jon landau of "rolling stone" concurred, remarking that it is his thematic shallowness and verbal archness which is where the film fell apart, yet he expressed approval of the dramatic scenery and cinematography.
clint eastwood in the 1970s
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high plains drifter is a 1973 american western film directed by and starring clint eastwood, written by ernest tidyman, and produced by robert daley for malpaso company and universal pictures. eastwood plays a mysterious, prepotent stranger, meting out justice in a corrupt frontier mining town. the film was influenced by the work of eastwood's two major collaborators, film directors sergio leone and don siegel.
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