Paint The Town Red Clint Eastwood. High plains drifter (1973) directed by clint eastwood. The local townsfolk fear the return of three notorious outlaws who they helped send to prison years ago, and when a mysterious gunfighter rides into town unannounced, the citizens of lagos beg him for help.
Similar to the townspeople in high noon, the inhabitants of the small community at the edge of a large lake on the plains, aptly named lago (lake in italian. But the gunfighter, known only as “the. The most fitting reprisal being, perhaps, having the townspeople paint the town red, and then rename it hell.