High Plains Drifter

Date: 1973
Director: Clint Eastwood
Production Company: Malpaso

Stars: Clint Eastwood, Verna Bloom, Marianna Hill, Billy Curtis, Geoffrey Lewis
Location(s): Mono Lake, California, USA.

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Drifter rides into town and paints it red. SJ

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  • 28 Nov 2011

Over Dee Barton's twanging Morricone-like music score, Eastwood rides into the lakeside town of Lago. This is the south side of Mono Lake, east of Yosemite, south of Lake Tahos, California.

Thirty years later. A jeep has replaced the horse. The shoreline has changed as water levels drop thus endangering the ecosystem. Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd) diver amongst the tufa was shot here in 1975. I even found some bits of wood roughly where the set was erected. SJ

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  • 28 Nov 2011

Turn around and here's the closing scene as Eastwood rides away while Curtis looks on by the grave. His brother or a ghost?

I'm proud of this one. Nailed the exact place thirty years on. SJ