Clint Eastwood : On the set of 'High Plains Drifter' (2007)

[Panhead53]

Excellent presentation- Merci Beaucoup !

[Albacorewing]

I drove there in 1984 and even then there was just nothing to speak of remaining of the movie set.

[danthman114]

very cool. my grandfather, who lived in the area untill his death, said that alot of the set that wasnt burnt was still there for awhile...

[fucheduck]

if that werse ceder wood it would last 500 years(after being dead from being cut from a tree). Ceder is good wood for exterior structures in the weather. 0:57. my father was talking to me just the other day of gazibos/how they're built. That wood will be there far into the future.

[bettintex65]

Excelente trabajo..!

[26DeislerFCB]

is this the new channel von herveattia or what is this?

[HerveAttia]

@26DeislerFCB

yes, This channel belongs to me. But it is not dedicated to filming locations video. :)

[Minthecircle]

Clint is the best, i love his Western! Thx for the Amazing Video!

[amhater]

wow! great job!

[pabsan07]

Thanks for posting this! There is a web site that has all of the Dirty Harry movie locations and how they look today. Where is this location? Thank you!

[newphx]

far and away my favorite Clint Eastwood film, with story/screenplay by Ernest Tidyman. Brilliant!!!

[openallnite1]

Excellent video. I appreciate the thought and effort you put into it.

[IvanMtl]

One of my favorite films of all time! Seriously, Clint rides into town, kills three people and rapes a woman - all within the first few minutes of the film! And he's the hero?!! lol You add the fact that he is really a spirit of vengeance seeking retribution and salvation for the townspeople who stood by and watched as he was whipped to death in the middle of the town's street, and you have one of the most original films (and certainly western) ever made! Merci beaucoup for the great video!

[cosmicdingo]

Wow, your French is really good.Oh, wait your ARE French? Okay, then.. Bien Video.

[cosmicdingo]

Wow, your French is really good.

[irishfriend]

Briljant, thank you!

[zzzthaoster]

clint is the ultimate cowboy period.

[stoopidhaters]

How can you act and direct a movie because the credit show that Clint Eastwood was the Director.

It's amazing seeing the past and the present of a place, so incredible.

[stoopidhaters]

How can you act and direct a movie because the credit show that Clint Eastwood was the Director.

[stoopidhaters]

How can you act and direct a movie?

[drumdude46]

understand that this was filmed out there on the other side of "mono lake" near Lone Pine, just off hwy 395 south, few miles north of Bishop CA, and just south of Bridgeport. i have passed by there 1000 times as i live in Reno, and have used that hwy countless times. it's a very "otherworldly, dead-looking lake" with all that white Alkalai and craigy rock that resembles something like the surface of another planet entirely. really neat down there.

[Beholder552]

I wish I was there

[Wathen8925]

Clint is like a ghost in all of his westerns.. he comes out of nowhere in some scenes and blows people away..thats the reason why I like his westerns so much..

I remember the once scene from Josey Wales..where there is this Indian who sees clint coming up this hill and he's going to try shooting him or something..he looses sight of him for a moment and right behind him clint pulls his gun out on him.

[emailmemrstara]

LOL.. how did you find this? and what are the Lat & long?

[hj179]

Very interresting video

[rdecredico]

Nice work on this video. I've been there (North shore of Mono Lake) and time doesn't change the spartan and dreary landscape all that much. Even the sage seems to be the same as it was in the film. It's only a short drive from a major US highway and well worth a visit for this, and other interesting reasons.

[jimhbs85]

Very cool, you did an excellent job showing the then and now. Actually good to see that nothing has changed. Where are you Italy? Was High Plains Drifter one of the spaghetti westerns?

[MrLunitunz]

@jimhbs85 High Plains was pure American, not a spaghetti Western.

[Pyewackettt]

@MrLunitunz It was certainly influenced by the Spag's though. :)

[MrLunitunz]

@Pyewackettt Certainly. Clint Eastwood was doing his pure-bred American version of The Man With No Name.

[rrvtjd]

Fabulous matching of the old footage with the new!

[Benalife]

GENIAL. GENIAL. MARAVILLOSO.

[killcancersteve]

awesome. happy i watched this

[tonyuaine]

very good i`ve never seen this vid on you tube before.going to save it just show my dad wow

[Albacorewing]

I think High Plains Drifer was Eastwood's best work, bar none.

[nicetna2010]

Good job on the transition. Exactly where is this place anyway? What country, what state, etc.? One of my all-time favorites.

[JAMamation]

@nicetna2010

Mono Lake, Mono County, California, United States. :D

[LastCommodore]

1:45 - 1:55  transition well done.

[1BADGT500]

EXCELLENT!!!!!

[cuthbertallbad]

Cool. Great film. Clint is the man.

[doglips1958]

Good Work.THANKS!!!!

[deutschschoen]

Mono Lake is a beautiful place. The water looks inviting but it has a high content of salt and other minerals. It is unfortunate that Los Angeles stole the water from the Owens Valley and the lake is really suffering.

[renegademax]

Very cool. One of my favorite movies.

[oldschoolhunter]

well done .

[rokhanmang]

Loved this movie! "Your feet ma'am.. are almost as big as your mouth." *takes a swig of his whiskey*

[TheZanipolo]

Shave and a hot bath

[TheZanipolo]

Lake Mono is a nvery interesting place geologically too, limestone deposits etc

[eflint1]

Thanks so much for this great video! I know you had a great time and it was nice of you to share this with all of us. I'd also like to visit

[wrpspeed]

One of my favorite Clint Eastwood movies. I was hoping there might still be some buildings left. I have been by the lake several times and I have always wondered where on teh shore it was filmed. Beautiful part of US

[jaymail24]

Wish I was there.

[FetidToecheese]

Very cool! Perfectly framed and cut with original .Thank you merci

[elginfans]

yes! great job on lining up the shots guys, that's not an easy thing to do. thanks for sharing, i enjoyed it!

[5dave1]

Without a doubt, Clint really pulls off the ultimate bad-ass Westerns. His quick draw moves when he blasts off the dummy heads being pulled in the wagon is a marvel to watch. "You Still Around?" Classic!

[6GUNSOUTH]

I looked for that son of a bitch back in the mid 80's. I used to live in a little mining town in Nevada back then. I went to Bodie, Cali...a ghostowne/national park. Lee Vining right down the highway on the way to Yosemite was a cool little watering hole. Still got some pics...brings back memories-thanks. Also Mark Twain had a mishap at Mono Lake, you can read about it in his book - Roughing it.

[Estebjack]

Bravo pour cette petite video sympa et merci pour la précisison du "fantôme", c'est vrai que le public est grugé par l'adaptation Française. Merci.

[krackenzap]

LOL!! this was so awesome!! great ending too :D

[vwtypelll]

Really cool my friend! Love it : ) Must have been very inspiring and spiritual to have been there for real!

[zappadead13]

wow great job my fav clint movie

[dutchomatic]

Moi aussi....formidable...parfait.­... Ou est Lake Mono? Clint Eastwood et USA #1!

[gabryniasz]

to be exact. High Plains Drifter was shot in 1972...35 years ago

[ChicagoCubs1060]

nice video filmed at Lake Mono. Clint Eastwood is one of the greatest actors of all time. He plays the ultimate badass in all of his westerns and movies! The spaghetti western trio is a classic, all of Clint's movies get me pumped up and excited lol. cool video.

[horsebowshooter]

tres bien!

[bithot2nite]

Well done! That was a very cool video :-)

[1911sa]

this is a damn neat video

[brentsapp25]

That was great how you did the video. I love how Marshal Jim Duncan got his revenge. awesome movie.

[aJazzcat]

C'est mon film favori de Clint Eastwood =D

[dashanova]

Wow great video! Thanks for sharing.

[1911sa]

but why did they have to tear down the set... too bad

[1911sa]

cool vid cool vid!

[pgglad]

High plains Drifter is a very very good movie, I am a huge fan of Clint Eastwood myself actually.

[beaulieu4008]

Selling wood on ebay. HA HA HA!

I wonder if you can sell you soul on ebay - I imagine people have tried.

[comali2212]

French people have a special respect and love for Clint Eastwood , they even rewarded him in the festival of Canne for movie awards as the best western actor of all time .

Good job !

[argus91]

YES! WE DO! And among french peoples, I'm one of the best fans of him, as director and actor.

[lazyjake32]

When scouting for a location, they thought about Pyramid Lake, north of Reno, Nevada. But it is on an Indian Reservation. Although they promised to clean up the mess, the Indians didn't want the shoreline scarred up with burned buildings, and turned them down.

[TheGuest19]

The script was actually originally written as The Stranger being Duncan's brother, but Eastwood then had it changed for a more ambiguous conclusion. I personally support the theory that he IS Duncan, but there is also a pretty well-developed theory that he is Satan. It's interesting, I recommend reading up on it.

[darkyoda]

I've heard it hashed around some, and the most likely answer to who he is in the movie, is the phantom of the man Duncan. There's that line in the end where he tells the dwarf man that "he knows his name". Plus the vivid memories of the bullwhipping and murder.

[NoMansLandProduction]

@TheGuest19 where can i read about this?

[hypedupkyle]

i have been to mono lake so many times and i drive past it every other month and ever time i see that big salt lake called mono lake... it reminds me of that great movie!

great video!

[SausageAndEggs]

AWSOME

[DAVETYIOP]

I don't know about that wood you found. I'm Doubtful that it came from the actual set. Seeing how that movie was made a long time ago. I would to say that was left behind by someone who was camping out there at the time. It looks too recent to be from back then. Thanks for locating the site. That movie is one of my favorites.

[cronerocks]

I wish this was a full length documentary, Someone give this guy a budget

[stratman123]

Really cool! This is one of the most underrated movies of all time. I've watched it many, many times. One coincidence that always intrigued me was in the opening scene of the movie. When he rides into town for revenge, it seems that the appearance of the townspeople are shown in the order that Marshall Duncan might have come to know them-right up to the undertaker at the end.

[labbie87]

Dude,

That's gangsta man!!

That's sooo cool!! :)

I LOVE CLINT EASTWOOD AND ALL OF HIS MOVIES!!

Peace

[Jarudn]

I'm amazed how he got some of his own current footage to blend seamlessly with footage from the movie. Seems like he would have to set up exactly the same shot from the identical vantage point as the movie. Wouldn't this be difficult to reproduce precisely, especially in an open expanse like this?

[countrysamurai]

How cool is that!? Merci from USA! Bonjour mon ami!

[proffromgview]

In an interview, Eastwood explains the difference between those 2 plots--it was written for him to be the brother, he changed it to HAVE that ambiguity (similar to Pale Rider) of the supernatural

[mzzzm]

thank you from kuwait

[unclewalt56]

Really cool stuff; really enjoyed it...TKS

[blimpboy1]

Actually -

Outstanding.

[blimpboy1]

Oustanding.

[Silvaired]

Nice job, Boud. I was just up there about 4 days ago looking for the site. Ran out of time, but saw the area from the highway. Thanks for the video. Fantastic job matching up the shots.

[shikambu]

Great to see the set after all these years.. I saw the movie back in the 1970s and know his character as the ghost.. never knew the French version made it his brother! Lame! Glad you agree, the ghost version, the OG version is the BEST version! Great video!

[justgottalaugh]

love this video. the movie was classic 70s genre rebellion with anti-hero. this area is starkly beautiful high desert. nice to see i'm not alone in loving both. i was privileged to live about 5 miles from this spot for a while and it was one of the happiest periods of my life.

[terryfl1956]

where was the movie shot ? i know the guy on video is french but i always thought the location was in Spain ???...

[justgottalaugh]

locations for 'high plains drifter' were mostly around mono lake, california. the set for the town of lago was on the west shore of the lake. the camera angles facing west were carefully chosen not to include the nearby highways (u.s. 395, state route 120) and the town of lee vining. other sites around the lake were also used - the scene were stacy bridges and his gang are released from prison in 'mexico' was shot three or four miles southeast of the lago set.

[justgottalaugh]

sergio leone used locations in spain for the 'man with no name' spaghetti westerns in the '60s, but 'drifter' was a 1973 hollywood production. any by the way, if you take the 120 west up lee vining canyon you'll experience one of the most spectacular drives on the planet.

[terryfl1956]

thanks for that ... your correct i knew the "spaghetti,s" were filmed in europe i just assumed this one was another from Sergio Leone ....

[proffromgview]

SPain? Come on, man, it's in the good ol' US of A

[heiligenberg]

Excellent revelation! I saw this in England in 1976 and was later confused by the hero's identity after seeing it on TV (dubbed) several times in France. (Eastwood's dubbed voice in French lacks its true dry rasping quality also. )

[bentstrider]

This place is just 300 miles north of where I live, up the 395. I'll do my own variation on horseback though.

[MikeLowrey4]

kool ill watch it

[MikeLowrey4]

I love the movie High Plains Drifter can someone post the barber shop scene i love that were he blasts everyone away.

[cxcoulte]

It is great that a French person took the time to watch the movie in detail, go to the place, talk about it and make this good video. You know, I wish I knew you were there, I would have bought you a beer for your good work. You know, YouTube can bring nations closer together, I feel that this guy is OK in my book...

[msinthrop]

Nice job. It's always cool to see famous movie sets today.

[ChubbyGibbon]

An interesting film you made.

Shame about the the French translation.

Good work but you look stupid when you run off at the end. =D

Oh and yes, Clint Eastwood is a living legend.