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Summary Clint Eastwood's High Plains Drifter angered John Wayne so much that he wrote Eastwood a letter about it. Eastwood was an up-and-coming Western star during the early 1960s, which should have made him the natural successor to Wayne, who had been acting since the 1930s.
John Wayne Wrote Clint Eastwood A Letter Expressing He Disliked High Plains Drifter Wayne Felt Eastwood's Directorial Debut Glorified Violence 1973's High Plains Drifter was the first movie that Clint Eastwood directed. This film was a stark departure from the types of Westerns Wayne had made and enjoyed in the 1930s. It involved an unnamed stranger who might have been a ghost and who returned to town to exact vengeance for the death of a US Marshal.
Although Wayne hated the violent anti-heroes of Eastwood's movies, he also objected to High Noon because the protagonist relied on the help of others instead of solving his problem himself. Eastwood went on to direct and star in many Westerns, and the genre continued to move in the direction he envisioned.
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