High Plains Drifter
■ Basic Data
| Item | Content |
|---|---|
| Year | 1973 |
| Country | United States |
| Director | Clint Eastwood |
| Cast | Clint Eastwood, Verna Bloom, Marianna Hill, Mitchell Ryan, Jack Ging |
| Genre | Western |
■ Title Language Table
| Language | Text | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| English | High Plains Drifter | – |
| Español | Infierno de cobardes | Infierno de cobardes |
| Français | L’Homme des hautes plaines | L’Homme des hautes plaines |
| Deutsch | Ein Fremder ohne Namen | Ein Fremder ohne Namen |
| Português | O Estranho Sem Nome | O Estranho Sem Nome |
| Italiano | Lo straniero senza nome | Lo straniero senza nome |
| Русский | – | – |
| 中文（简体） | – | – |
| 中文（繁體） | – | – |
| 한국어 | – | – |
| ไทย | – | – |
| Tiếng Việt | – | – |
| Bahasa Indonesia | – | – |
| 日本語 | 荒野のストレンジャー | Kōya no Sutorenjā |
■ One-Line Definition
👉 A work that depicts a structure in which buried communal guilt and punitive retribution collide within a town built on denial.
■ Synopsis
A nameless stranger enters a desert town and forces its hidden crime to return as judgment.
■ RECIPE Tags
#CommunalGuilt #RetributiveJustice #HiddenCrime #MoralReckoning #ReturnOfThePast
■ Primary Axis
- Entry: Outsider as moral disturbance
Reason: The stranger does not simply arrive; he destabilizes a town whose order depends on concealment.
Related Film: Bad Day at Black Rock - Middle: Community built on suppressed guilt
Reason: The town’s apparent normality is sustained by collective silence around a past crime.
Related Film: The Ox-Bow Incident - Core: Revenge as judgment against civic corruption
Reason: Retribution functions as exposure, punishment, and symbolic correction of a corrupted community.
Related Film: Dogville
■ Secondary Axes
- Spectral avenger: Justice appears through an ambiguous figure beyond ordinary social law.
Related Film: Pale Rider - Violence returning to its source: A violent order is forced to face the consequences it created.
Related Film: Unforgiven
■ Person
- Director: Clint Eastwood
- Cast: Clint Eastwood, Verna Bloom, Marianna Hill, Mitchell Ryan, Jack Ging
■ Structural Tags
#HiddenCrimeStructure #OutsiderJudgment #CollectiveSilence
■ Attribute Tags
#UnitedStates #1973Film #WesternFilm
