A classic Western movie is airing on TV tonight

It was the first Western directed by a legend of the genre.

In the film, Eastwood plays a gunslinging drifter with no name who wanders into the small Old West town of Lago.

At first, he is met with incredulity and disapproval by the townspeople, but once he shows his skills with a pistol, the locals realise he may be able to help them fend off a band of criminals who have been terrorising the town.

"He agrees to help the townspeople, but does so with his own secret agenda," the plot synopsis adds.

High Plains Drifter is the first Western that Eastwood both directed and starred in.

As such, you can feel him applying everything he learned working with incredible filmmakers Sergio Leone (on the legendary Dollars trilogy) and Don Siegel (on The Beguiled and Two Mules for Sister Sara) to his own directorial effort, while also putting his own unique twist on the genre.

High Plains Drifter is airing on ITV4 tonight at 10.30pm. It is also available to rent on Apple TV and Google Play.

Here are the other movies on TV tonight:

Bloodshot - Film4 - 9pm

Vin Diesel is the lead in this 2020 action sci-fi about a soldier who dies before being brought back to life with superpowers by an organisation that wants to use him as a weapon.

Daylight - Legend - 9pm

Sylvester Stallone stars in this '90s disaster flick.

White Chicks - Comedy Central - 9pm

This critically panned comedy about two black FBI agents (Shawn Wayans and Marlon Wayans) who go undercover using whiteface as women to solve a kidnapping plot has its defenders.

Smile - Channel 4 - 9.20pm

The sequel is in cinemas now, so what better time to revisit this brilliantly tense 2022 horror?

The Beasts - BBC Four - 10pm

This excellent thriller drama is set in the Galician countryside in Spain and follows a French couple new to the area who clash with their neighbours.

The Inglorious Bastards - Legend Xtra - 10.50pm

The ’70s war flick that inspired the similarly titled Quentin Tarantino masterpiece Inglourious Basterds.

The Empty Man - Film4 - 11.10pm

An ex-cop (cult star James Badge Dale) investigating the disappearance of a teenage girl discovers a whole host of terrors in this sadly underseen 2022 horror epic.

Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story - Comedy Central - 11.15pm

The parody of music biopics that we recently called 'one of the best comedy movies of the 21st century'.

Man on Fire - Channel 4 - 11.35pm

'Creasy's art is death. He's about to paint his masterpiece.'

The Blair Witch Project - BBC One (except Scotland) - 11.50pm

The iconic lo-fi horror that launched the found footage craze.

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