[Finny]

Oh, I hear you on that! Clint is a master at Westerns. I can't really go though a year fulfilled unless I watch "High Plains Drifter," one of my faves. I was away from the U.S. in a kind of third-world place for a couple of months as a teen, and when I got back to the U.S. there were only two things I craved: a real cheeseburger, and a Clint Eastwood spaghetti western.

And though a lot of people snicker at "Pale Rider," Eastwood's brazen '80s take on "Shane," it's one of my favorite Westerns of all time. Stockburn's deputies are priceless! They never smile, they never blink, they never talk among themselves. They just stand around in those big white dusters and look mean. Until "the preacher" kills them all, that is!

*sigh* Now I'm going to have to watch both of them again!

[Inyo-Mono]

Oh, I hear you on that! Clint is a master at Westerns. I can't really go though a year fulfilled unless I watch "High Plains Drifter," one of my faves. I was away from the U.S. in a kind of third-world place for a couple of months as a teen, and when I got back to the U.S. there were only two things I craved: a real cheeseburger, and a Clint Eastwood spaghetti western.

Since you live in Calif, you ought to go check out Mono Lake sometime where they filmed High Plains Drifter (just a few miles north of me). Joe Kidd was filmed six miles from my house.

[nomorelurker]

Trying to think here. Pale Rider did rip off Shane but also High Plains Drifter, High Noon and others I cannot think of now. Great Movie.

[karnage]

“What’d you say your name was?”
“I didn’t.”