Webb Traverse

[Joe Allonby]

On 4/17/07, Tore Rye Andersen <torerye at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Chris Broderick:
>
>
> For what it's worth, though, I thought even more of Clint Eastwood's
> western
> 'High Plains Drifter' (1973) - his tribute to Sergio Leone:
>
> http://www.allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=1:22387~T0
>
> In that movie, which has sometimes been described as a 'magical realist
> western' (also an apt description of the western sections of AtD),
> Eastwood
> plays some sort of otherworldly avenging angel who arrives in the town
> Lago
> (which, incidentally, means 'Lake'), and is hired by the citizens to
> protect
> them from a band of outlaws.



It is strongly suggested that Eastwood's character is actually the ghost of
Marshall Duncan.

He materializes out of a haze as he rides into town. He seems to know
everybody and their dirty secrets. He whips one of the ex-cons to death in
the street similarly to the manner in which they killed Duncan (now that's a
name for a revenge drama with ghosts!). At the end, the midget is placing
flowers on the grave of Duncan and says "I never did catch your name."
Eastwood's character replies "Yes, you did." There is a close-up of the
tombstone. He rides off and disappears into the haze from which he came.
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