High Plains Drifter

The following guns were used in the film High Plains Drifter:

High Plains Drifter (1973)

Single Action Army

The Stranger (Clint Eastwood) carries a 7 1/2" Cavalary Single Action Army as his sidearm in the film. Many other characters carry 5" Artillery models, such as Stacey Bridges (Geoffrey Lewis) and his gang. Mordecai (Billy Curtis) buys himself a nickel plated Cavalary model once Stranger makes him the new Mayor of the town.

Colt Single Action Army 7 1/2" Cavalary - .45 Long Colt.

Colt Single Action Army 5" Artillery - .45 Long Colt.

Stranger kills the three men in the barber shop with his Single Action Army.

Stranger holsters his Single Action Army.

Mordecai picks out a Nickel Cavalary Single Action Army.

Stranger decapitates the human figurines with his Single Action Army as the town trains firing at them.

FPS view of one of Bridge's thugs shooting a man in the woods.

Stranger uses his Single Action Army to kill the men trying to kill him in the hotel.

Stacey Bridges aims his Single Action Army as Stranger uses dynamite to spook him and his gang in the valley. Note how the rounds loaded are hollow points, not very accurate for the time.