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...know it's not the sort of thing you're into, and you hardly owe it to Universal. After all, they got the story rights for nothing. But you're hot now, and you're going to get hotter. Like the studio told us: "Clint Eastwood does it -why can't he?" At least you ought to get yourself solid agency representation. You need somebody in your corner who knows the business. Just keep us in mind if you decide to make a move...
HIGH PLAINS DRIFTER Directed by CLINT EASTWOOD Screenplay by ERNEST TIDYMAN
...classic western situation but unfortunately, Writer Tidyman and Director Eastwood (who also plays the title role) understand that one man's classic is another's cliché−and are anxious to make sure we know they know. Therefore they stress the mythic overtones that pop cultists are always finding in the standard western forms. All the ritual scenes−Eastwood's menacing entrance ride down Main Street, the saloon confrontation and the barbershop Shootout that establish his credentials as a law-and-order man−are handled so that the emphasis is on archetypicality rather than...
This desperate inventiveness does not make a familiar tale interesting. It simply weighs it down under a load of cacophonously clanking symbols. As a director, Eastwood is not as good as he seems to think he is. As an actor, he is probably better than he allows himself to be. Meanwhile, the best you can say for High Plains Drifter is that the title is a low pun. Rarely are humble westerns permitted to drift around on such a highfalutin plane. That, however, is small comfort as this cold, gory and overthought movie unfolds...
...pattern of failure was established during the first five minutes when Charlton Heston, the first of four hosts, failed to show up. Clint Eastwood, looking as if someone had pushed him from the wings, took Heston's place-and immediately ran into trouble with his cue cards. "This isn't my bag, man," he complained to the cameras shortly before Heston, who had been delayed by a flat tire on the Hollywood Freeway, relieved him. And so the night digressed...