A legendary Western movie is airing on TV tonight

Holding a 94% score on Rotten Tomatoes, the film was the first Western directed by a legend of the genre.

In the movie, 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.

Holding a 94% score on Rotten Tomatoes, 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.

This is as he puts his own unique twist on the genre.

After having been recently added to Netflix, High Plains Drifter is also airing on TV tonight on ITV4 at 9pm.

Here are the other movies airing on TV tonight:

Where Eagles Dare / Kelly's Heroes - BBC Four - 7pm / 10.30pm

A double bill of two earlier Clint Eastwood films.

Mission: Impossible - Fallout - Film4 - 9pm

We hailed this as one of the best action films of the 21st century just last week.

LA Confidential - Legend - 9pm

The incredible, Oscar-winning ’90s movie adaptation of James Ellroy’s dense period crime novel.

The Deer Hunter - Sky Arts - 9pm

Christopher Walken and Robert De Niro headline this powerful ’70s drama about the impact the Vietnam War has on a trio of friends from Pennsylvania.

Robin Hood: Men in Tights - Comedy Central - 9pm

Cary Elwes stars in this hit Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves spoof.

Night Hunter - Legend Xtra - 9pm

Henry Cavill plays a detective hunting a serial killer in this action thriller that did not get good reviews.

Rampage - Sky Showcase - 10pm

Dwayne Johnson stars in this sci-fi action flick in which giant animals attack Chicago.

The Internecine Project - Legend Xtra - 11pm

A '70s espionage thriller starring future Oscar-winner James Coburn (Affliction).

Dirty Harry - ITV4 - 11.10pm

Clint Eastwood stars again in this iconic action thriller that launched a franchise.

The original follows Inspector “Dirty” Harry Callahan as he hunts down a serial killer terrorising San Francisco.

Assassin - Legend - 11.40pm

Danny Dyer is an assassin in this 2015 British action thriller that got poor reviews.

Werewolves Within - Film4 - 11.55pm

In this well-liked video game adaptation (which is quite a rarity in cinema!), a group of people become trapped in a small town during a snowstorm, only to suspect one of them is a werewolf.