- Film Review
- Reviewed By Tom Hutchinson
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4 out of 5
Sex, sadism and the supernatural are loosely bundled in Clint Eastwood's stylishly self-conscious western: man-with-no-name satire or fable of mystic revenge, take your pick. Eastwood looms out of the desert, a mirage of retribution on a town's inhabitants who stood by while their honest sheriff was whipped to death. Eastwood seems, not altogether successfully, to be paying off debts to his former mentor Sergio Leone - gratitude he can only express obliquely via the occult references in this distinctive variation on the spaghetti western genre.
Plot Summary
Western starring Clint Eastwood. A mysterious and laconic stranger rides into the small American frontier town of Lago, and within minutes kills three men who provoke him. Terrified of the gunman, yet even more afraid of a gang who intend to wipe out the town, the townspeople beg the stranger to become sheriff, little realising that this is just the start of their descent into "Hell".
Cast and crew
Cast
- The Stranger
- Clint Eastwood
- Sarah Belding
- Verna Bloom
- Callie Travers
- Marianna Hill
- Dave Drake
- Mitchell Ryan
- Morgan Allen
- Jack Ging
- Mayor Jason Hobart
- Stefan Gierasch
- Lewis Belding
- Ted Hartley
- Mordecai
- Billy Curtis
Crew
- Director
- Clint Eastwood
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