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High Plains Drifter

1973 · directed by Clint Eastwood · 106 min
22,736 feet · Prominence
1,601st of 24,106 films scored
Not coveredNo Rewatchables episode on file.

How this film scores

Draw56

Lifetime worldwide gross $16m, re-releases included; about $117m in 2026 money.

Rank2,636 of 11,051In 197318 of 48

How Draw works

Inflation-adjusted worldwide box office, on one global curve, and nothing else. It does not know whether a film was good.

Praise80

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics80 baseAwards0 signal → +0 lift

No award rows on file, usually missing data rather than missing honours. Wikidata is thin for older and non-English films.

How Praise works

Critics set the score; a tiered award record, Picture and Directing carrying the most weight, claims half the headroom above it. Praise is the verdict at the time; Legacy is the verdict since.

Legacy38

Judged directly: Eastwood western, enduring cult.

Verdict38 of 100IMDb7.4 from 70kWikipedia31k views a monthAge53 years

Scored beside it · 1,897 of 4,039 films judged

If it does not belong in this company, the number is wrong.

How Legacy works

Legacy is a judgment, not a formula. A film can be adored by critics and culturally quiet, or lightly reviewed and permanently lodged in the culture, and no arithmetic over IMDb numbers tells the difference. Every signal behind it keeps updating.

draw 56 praise 80 legacy 38averages 58, placing it at22,736 ft
How the three become one number

Added, not multiplied, so a film transcendent on one pillar and weak on another is not zeroed out. A compression curve then squeezes the top, because the seven greatest films ever made should not be four thousand feet apart.

Whose apex this is

▲ Verna Bloom

In these careers — elevation for this film

Clint Eastwood19,969 ftVerna Bloom18,041 ftMitchell Ryan17,899 ftGeoffrey Lewis17,638 ftJohn Hillerman17,629 ft