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High Plains Drifter is a 1973 American Western film directed by Clint Eastwood, written by Ernest Tidyman, and produced by Robert Daley for The Malpaso Company and Universal Pictures. The film stars Eastwood as a mysterious stranger who metes out justice in a corrupt frontier mining town. [ 4 ]
4 ft 2 in (1.27 m) [1] Billy Curtis (born Luigi Curto ; June 27, 1909 – November 9, 1988) was an American film and television actor with dwarfism , who had a 50-year career in the entertainment industry.
The music used in the film's trailer was a stock piece by British composer Alan Hawkshaw known to British viewers for its use as the title theme for Channel 4 News. Unusually, Channel 4 News did not secure permanent exclusivity rights to Hawkshaw's theme, titled "Best Endeavours", resulting in it also being used for the trailer for Pale Rider. [22]
[8] He wrote the screenplay for the 1973 film High Plains Drifter, directed by and starring Clint Eastwood. Tidyman also wrote the sequel to Shaft, Shaft's Big Score, which appeared in theaters in 1972. In 1974, he published Dummy, a non-fiction account of the story of Donald Lang, an accused deaf-mute murderer.
He is best known for his work on Sudden Impact (1983) and High Plains Drifter (1973). Early life. As a teenager, he excelled in sports at Charleston High School.
O'Connell was born in Los Angeles on May 12, 1929. He served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War with the 45th Infantry Division. [1]O'Connell worked often with Clint Eastwood, with whom he first appeared in the 1969 musical Paint Your Wagon.
1973: High Plains Drifter as Preacher; 1973: The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing as Dub; 1973: Santee as J.C. 1975: Bite the Bullet as Reporter; 1975: The Boy Who Talked to Badgers as Burton; 1975: Take a Hard Ride as Skave; 1976: The Last Hard Men as Lee Roy; 1977: Damnation Alley as Man / Guard; 1979: Five Days from Home as Karl Baldwin; 1981 ...
CountCrazy007 05:04, 4 March 2007 (UTC) High Plains Drifter had total "rentals" of about seven million dollars back in 1973, from Variety magazine's issue of May 10, 1993, which has a table of "Alphabetical All Time Film Rental Champs", starting on pC76.