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HIGH PLAINS DRIFTER is perhaps Eastwood's most mean-spirited film that deals with supernatural elements and quite literally burning down every cliche, the Western cliche that had predated "The Man With No Name.

A shaky sophomore effort for Eastwood. Ernest Tidyman's script all too often plays like an extended -- and inferior -- episode of The Twilight Zone.

Mysterious, sporadically comical, and classically Eastwood, High Plains Drifter is a wholly satisfying revenge saga that's askew enough to surprise as it exercises known elements.

Eastwood holds fast to the rebel spirit of the spaghetti Westerns and revisionist "New Hollywood" Westerns of the previous decade, but packages it in a film that's slicker and more mainstream-friendly.

Clint Eastwood's first Western as director is rather fascinating due to its quasi-supernatural component.