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''High Plains Drifter'' is a 1973 American supernatural western film produced by Robert Daley for Malpaso Company and Universal Studios, directed by and starring Clint Eastwood, and written by Ernest Tidyman (who also wrote the novelization). Eastwood plays an enigmatic wraith, who metes out justice in a corrupt frontier mining town, where he arrives as a stranger.〔(The Representation of Justice in Eastwood's ''High Plains Drifter'' ) Flynn, Erin E. Presented in ''The Philosophy of Clint Eastwood'', edited by Richard T. McClelland and Brian B. Clayton, University Press of Kentucky, 2014.〕 The film was influenced by the work of Eastwood's two major collaborators, film directors Sergio Leone and Don Siegel.〔Kaminsky, Stuart. ''Clint Eastwood'', Signet Books, 1975. ISBN 978-0-451-06159-1〕 The film was shot on location on the shores of Mono Lake, California. Dee Barton wrote the eerie film score. The film was critically acclaimed at the time of its initial release and remains popular today, holding a score of 96% at the review aggregate website Rotten Tomatoes. ==Plot== A stranger on horseback rides into the isolated mining town of Lago. Three gun-toting men follow him into the saloon, taunting him to fight. When they follow him to the barbershop and begin threatening him, the Stranger quickly dispatches the three with little effort. Impressed with this performance, a dwarf named Mordecai, who works in the barbershop, befriends the Stranger. A woman named Callie Travers arranges to bump into the Stranger in the street, claiming loudly it was his fault. When she slaps the cigar from his mouth while insulting him, he drags her into the livery stable and rapes her. The rape, "which begins with Callie's furious resistance but ends with her obvious sexual satisfaction,"〔Girgus (2014)〕 is secretly witnessed by Mordecai. Next, the Stranger rents a room at the hotel but declines to give a name to the hotelier. That night, he dreams about a man being brutally whipped. In the morning he returns to the barbershop for a bath. Callie Travers shoots at him after he is in the tub; inexplicably, he remains uninjured. Sheriff Sam Shaw tells the Stranger he will not be charged for killing the three gunfighters. Meanwhile, the townsmen discuss a trio of feared outlaws, Stacey Bridges and the brothers Dan and Cole Carlin, who are due to be released from prison that day. It is later revealed that some time before that, the town Marshal, Jim Duncan, the man who appears to the Stranger in his dream, had been whipped to death by Bridges and the Carlin brothers, while the people of Lago looked on. Only Sarah Belding, wife of hotelier Lewis Belding, made any attempt to rescue him. A corrupt faction in Lago wanted Duncan dead because the Marshal had discovered that the town's mine is on government ground. The townsfolk feared that his discovery would result in the mine's being closed, threatening the town's livelihood. The townspeople then double-crossed the three gunfighters after they killed Duncan, leading to the trio's imprisonment; with their release, the town expects them to seek vengeance. Since the men slain by the Stranger at the barber shop were the mining company's new protectors, the townsmen decide to hire the Stranger as their replacement. The Stranger declines the job until Shaw tells him he can have anything he wants. Accepting these terms, the Stranger indulges in the town's goods and services, including giving away goods to a Native American and his children who had been verbally abused in a racist manner by the owner of the general store (one of the town elders). He then makes Mordecai both sheriff and mayor. He also has Belding's customers move out of the hotel, while he has Belding's barn dismantled in order to make picnic benches. He then has the entire town repainted red, while painting the word "HELL" on the "LAGO" sign just outside town. While the Stranger trains the townspeople to defend themselves, Bridges and the Carlin brothers are released from prison and make their way to Lago. They kill three men and then steal their horses. A group of townsfolk tries to ambush the Stranger in the hotel, but he kills all but one. After Belding inadvertently divulges his complicity in the attack (which left his hotel destroyed), the Stranger drags Sarah Belding into her bedroom. Believing that he intends to rape her, she retreats into a corner, defending herself with a pair of scissors. He mocks her, implying she is the one who wants to have him. Outraged, she attacks him with the scissors but he overpowers her and the struggle transforms into a mutual passionate embrace. The next morning, Sarah tells the Stranger about Duncan's murder and that he is buried in an unmarked grave. She remarks that the dead don't rest without a marker. The Stranger rides out the next morning, finds the gunfighters, and has a shootout with them before returning to Lago. With the town now painted red, townsmen with rifles stationed on rooftops, and a picnic and welcoming banner set up for the gunfighters, the Stranger mounts his horse and rides away. When the gunfighters arrive, however, they easily overcome the inept resistance of the townspeople, killing several corrupt civic leaders. By nightfall, they have the townspeople collected in the saloon while other buildings burn. The Stranger returns, killing the gunfighters one by one, whipping Cole Carlin to death, hanging Dan Carlin with another whip, and shooting Stacey Bridges. Belding attempts to shoot the Stranger in the back, but the dwarf Mordecai shoots Belding first. The next day, the Stranger departs in the same manner he arrived, slowly riding through the now ruined town. At the cemetery, he passes Mordecai carving a fresh grave marker. Mordecai comments to the departing Stranger that he never did know his name, to which the Stranger answers cryptically, "Yes, you do." A look of astonishment crosses the little man's face, and he enigmatically replies "yes, sir, captain" and salutes. The camera pulls back to reveal that the wooden marker carved by Mordecai reads, "MARSHAL JIM DUNCAN. REST IN PEACE." The Stranger then rides out, fading away as he enters the heat waves radiating up from the desert floor. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「High Plains Drifter」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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