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Advantages: The perfect western
Disadvantages: none

High Plains Drifter is a classic western. It has a strong lead character who is the classic gunfighter, cold, emotionless and completely ruthless. It also has a strong supporting cast who again play the classic western towns people, scared, self promoting, submissive and equally ruthless in a passive way, all the classic ingredients. So why is this western so very different to anything else that came before it and after it? In the old days, westerns ...
...used to great effect with High Plains Drifter, however, he took it a stage further and made the audience enter nthe movie in a way unseen before. He made us think about the characters and make our own opinions about them, never more so than with his main character, the stranger, it was as though you were a person living in the town of Lago and like the townsfolk, you knew nothing about the stranger who came to the town other than what you saw. This ... Read review

Advantages: Good plot
Disadvantages: none

As a big Clint Eastwood fan i find that most people normally relate to him for his "Spaghetti westerns" or "Dirty Harry" films. I have lost count of the amount of times i have heard someone with a bad impression of him sayin "go ahed punk make my day" Eastwood though has many films to his credit both as actor and as director, quite often as both. "High plains drifter" (1973) is one of thoes many films. With his spaghetti westerns most people credit ...
...in in all three films he had a name. In "A fist full of dollars" his name was Joe, in "For a few dollars more" his name was Monco and finally in "The good the bad and the ugly" he was Blondie. For five decades Eastwood has made westerns, appealing to the current audience, but in only one was he the man with no name or the stranger and that was "High plaines Drifter" although the film does leave heavy clues to who he could have been once upon a time. ... Read review

Advantages: A good western
Disadvantages: over the top storyline

...Pennell and for a while she seems to like the both of them but by the end it seemed she picked Cohill. While on the journey they come across a group of Arapaho indians but because of the women cannot attack for their safety. A little bit later the Scout Captain Tyree has been told to get to Sudro's Well to tell the people there that he has been delayed. By the time Captain Brittles arrives though the indians have attacked. That night the army sneak ...
...the river Captain Cohill stays behind with a number of men to fend off the indian attack wile the rest head back to the fort. At the Fort we see Brittles upset because he failed in getting the Women to the stage and also preventing guns from getting into the hands of the indians. The next day Lieutennat Pennell leads a company out to help Cohill as Nathan Brittles is upon retirement. However that night Brittles leaves the fort. Upon exiting the fort ... Read review

Advantages: Loads of Action, Shooting incidents, Good Actors
Disadvantages: Some battles were not historically accurate

...The Apaches are led by Geronimo played by Wes Studi and are refusing to give up their land without a fight. The film has many battles and some are quite gruesome. In the film Geronimo is portrayed as a fierce warrior, but also someone who you can grow to like as there are many examples of him having friendships with US Army personell especially lieutienant Gatewood. However he can be deadly to people who stand in his or his people's way. The film ...
...an Apache Scout to find Geronimo and convince him to surrender. However in the end the Apaches are shaped to florida to go to jail and so are the Apache Scouts that helped the Army. It is in the train when you see one of the main scouts telling Geronimo how he wished he didn't join the army but helped the Apache but another Indian tells the Scout that because of his actions he would be hated forever. I thought this was a significant part of the film ... Read review

Advantages: Entertaining, Challenging, Emotional, Exciting, Makes you see how dangerous the Western Fronteir Was
Disadvantages: None

The Searchers is widely recognised as one of the best westerns ever made and rightly so. It is set in Texas in 1868 at the end of the Civil War, A war that John Wayne Known in the film as Ethan Edwards took part in, the Film opens with him returning to his brothers farm from the war. The scenery at the start of the film is breathtaking and is seen from the opening of a door and it seems to be emphasising the harsh and dangerous environment of Texas ...
...story of the film is the search for Ethans neice Debbie who has been kipnapped by Indians under a Chief called Scar who also killed his brother and the rest of his family including Martha who it seemed Ethan had feelings for. He is accompanied on the journey by a company of Texas Rangers but by the first year it is just Martin Pauley who is Ethans adopted nephew and Ethan that are left in the search as Brad was killed after charging into indians ... Read review