Movie Information
Overall Rank: 721
Average Rating: 3/4
# of Ratings: 149
Theatrical Release Date: 08/22/1973
Language: English
Genre: Western, Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Clint Eastwood
Actors: Clint Eastwood, Verna Bloom, Marianna Hill, Mitch Ryan, Jack Ging, Stefan Gierasch
Plot: Eastwood stars as the Fury of Vegence is this savage tale of blood and hypocracy. In a role similiar to his legendary Man With No Name in A Fistful of Dollars, Clint rides into a town terrorized by a band of ruthless gunmen who promise to wreck havac the moment they are released from prison. But this town harbors a flithy secret . . . and only blood will wash it clean. Eastwood's darkest role. -- Topher
Quick Movie Reviews
Rating of
3/4
Alaine - wrote on 12/12/2011
Ghost rider Clint smokes, drinks, screws, paints town red, kills bad guys, drifts off again.
Rating of
3/4
mitchellyoung - wrote on 08/21/2011
A dark Western that tells a story of revenge and vigilante justice personified. Differing from previous Eastwood films, Eastwood plays a lone gunman whose tactics are questionable and the film skillfully plays with open-ended questions of redemption and condemnation. Actually very thought-provoking when you get into it.
Full Movie Reviews
Rating of
2/4
Eastwood reaps vengeance w/ no mercy to spare
Indyfreak - wrote on 07/06/2022
Clint Eastwood plays a sinister gunslinger that agrees to protect a mining town from a vicious gang of outlaws. But on his terms and it's clear the townsfolk are not as innocent as they make themselves out to be. The tone is far darker and moody than Eastwood's earlier westerns which already earned attention for their cynical edge. When violence breaks out, it seems more sadistic and brutal than exciting and heroic. Eastwood is not bad though it's not much different from his other stoic roles. Some of the supporting cast members leave an impression such as Marianna Hill as an unpleasant shrew or Billy Curtis as the Drifter's sidekick. The movie is a change of pace from Eastwood's other westerns (and he'll revisit similar themes in Pale Rider). But it's not necessarily fun to watch.
Rating of
3.5/4
High Plains Drifter review
Daniel Corleone - wrote on 04/24/2013
Entertaining, funny, and stunning. A stranger arrives to Lago, a town with a mysterious secret, gets a lot of stares. The Stranger is then attacked by three notorious men while being shaved. He was asked by the Sheriff to help the town since The settings, cinematography and action sequences were splendid. If only the screenplay were improved to make the supporting characters more interesting, same goes for the unnamed hero. It's score was hypnotic which aids in the surrealism of the way it was shot. The trio of main antagonists could have had more history, same goes for The Stranger. The Stranger's best lines: "It's what people know about themselves inside that makes 'em afraid." "You're going to look pretty silly with that knife sticking out of your ass." and "Then you live …
Rating of
3/4
"High Plains Drifter" by Yojimbo
Yojimbo - wrote on 04/16/2012
Clint Eastwood stars in and directs this obvious homage to Sergio Leone as he resurrects the man with no name character, as an enigmatic gunslinger rides into the town of Lago and promptly kills the gunmen hired by the townsfolk to protect them against a trio of vengeful outlaws. They offer him the run of the town to replace them, but it soon emerges that he has a hidden agenda of his own. Another fine western from Clint, and laced with a healthy dose of the supernatural, this film is unusual in it's complete absence of a "good guy". The morality is not even grey; virtually every character is a self centred immoral hypocrite! Clint himself hasn't the slightest interest in justice, just bloody retribution which he gets in a great climax which sees him shooting it out in the blood red …
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