Jul 1 2022
High Plains Drifter/Pale Rider
“Cause I'm the high plains drifter the best that you can get, a strapped shoplifter, a pirate on cassette! Bust a Travis Bickle when I feel that I'm getting pushed, don't step to me 'cause you could be gettin' mushed!” Join Eric and Jake for a genre hop. We watched a double feature of supernatural Westerns. High Plains Drifter (1973) is Clint Eastwood’s first Western in the director’s chair. He’s lean and mean as he’s ever been, turning a town into hell on earth, and its citizens against each other as an avenging ghost with no name. Pale Rider (1985) is a quasi remake with a kinder heart, some throwbacks to a pre-revisionist era of the genre, a stronger script, and a hell of a payoff.