On this day in movie history - High Plains Drifter (1973):

High Plains Drifter

directed by Clint Eastwood,

written by Ernest Tidyman and Dean Riesner,

was released in the United States on April 7, 1973.
Music by Dee Barton.

Cast:

Clint Eastwood, Verna Bloom, Marianna Hill, Mitchell Ryan, Jack Ging, Stefan Gierasch, Ted Hartley, Billy Curtis, Geoffrey Lewis, Scott Walker, Walter Barnes, Paul Brinegar, Richard Bull, Robert Donner, John Hillerman, Anthony James, William O'Connell, John Quade, Jane Aull, Dan Vadis, Reid Cruickshanks, Jim Gosa, Jack Kosslyn, Russ McCubbin, Belle Mitchell, John Mitchum, Carl Pitti, Chuck Waters, Buddy Van Horn, Jimmie Booth, Alex Tinne.

On this day in movie history - The League of Gentlemen (1960 movie & novel):

The League of Gentlemen

directed by Basil Dearden,

written by Bryan Forbes,

based on the novel by John Boland,

was released in the United Kingdom on April 7, 1960.
Music by Philip Green.

Cast:

Jack Hawkins, Nigel Patrick, Roger Livesey, Richard Attenborough, Bryan Forbes, Kieron Moore, Terence Alexander, Norman Bird, Robert Coote, Melissa Stribling, Nanette Newman, Lydia Sherwood, Doris Hare, David Lodge, Patrick Wymark, Gerald Harper, Brian Murray, Terence Edmond, Nigel Green, Patrick Jordan, Dinsdale Landen, Ronald Leigh-Hunt, Oliver Reed, Norman Rossington, Bruce Seton, Michael Corcoran.

Recommended reading:

The League of Gentlemen

By John Boland.

ASIN: B000WH36FM
Published by Beacon Envoy.
Published 1958.
Mass Market Paperback.

Ten ex-army officers. All of them cashiered. Their plan and outrageous and daring - the prize of one million pounds. The basis of the movie The League of Gentlemen (1960), directed by Basil Dearden.

Born on this day – Stan Winston:

Stan Winston

Special effects make-up creator

April 7, 1946 – June 15, 2008

Born on this day – Ted Kotcheff:

Ted Kotcheff

Director

Producer

Actor

April 7, 1931 – April 10, 2025

Credits:

A Husband, a Wife and a Lover (1996); A New Breed: Ted Kotcheff Remembers Billy Two Hats (2015); ABC Stage 67 (1966–1967); Armchair Theatre (1958–1964); At the Drop of Another Hat (1967); Barney's Version (2010); Big Guns, Bigger Heroes: The 1980's and the Rise of the Action Film (2012); Billy Two Hats (1974); Borrowed Hearts (1997); Buddy Faro (2000); Dad Strangelove (2025); David Stratton's Stories of Australian Cinema (2017); Drama 61-67 (1964); Drawing First Blood (2002); E! True Hollywood Story (2008); Encounter (1956–1957); Erase and Forget (2017); Espionage (1963); Family of Cops (1995); Fearless (2014); First Blood (1982); First Blood: Alternate Ending (2014); First Blood: Humorous Ending (2014); First Blood: Rambo Takes the 80s Part 1 (2018); First Night (1963–1964); First Performance (1957); Folks! (1992); Fun with Dick and Jane (1977); Gone South: How Canada Invented Hollywood (2014); Guts and Glory (2002); Hard (2014); Hidden Assassin (1995); Hollywood Insider (2021); Hour of Mystery (1957); I Love 1980's (2001); I'll Have You to Remember (1961); ITV Playhouse (1969); ITV Saturday Night Theatre (1971); ITV Television Playhouse (1963); Joshua Then and Now (1985); Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999–2012); Le soldat de cinéma (2013); Life at the Top (1965); Lights Out (1972); Love on the Run (1994); North Dallas Forty (1979); Not Quite Hollywood: Deleted and Extended Scenes (2008); Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation! (2008); Of Mice and Men (1968); On Camera (1956–1957); On Screen! (2005); Performance (1975); Pierrot le fou (1965); / Cannes Film Festival (2009); Play for Today (1971–1972); Rambo (2008); Red Shoe Diaries (1992); Rx for the Defense (1973); Sauvage: Survivre au Cinéma (2017); SEGAL (2025); Shattered Glass (2003); Soul of an Artist (2017); Split Image (1982); SVU: The Beginning (2003); Switching Channels (1988); Talking Film (1981); Ted Kotcheff's Gourmet Cinema (2011); The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1974); The Apprenticeship of Ted Kotcheff (2025); The Check Is in the Mail... (1986); The Desperate Hours (1967); The Great Canadian Culture Hunt (1976); The Human Voice (1966); The Larry Solway Show (1974); The Madhouse on Castle Street / BBC Sunday-Night Play (1962–1963); The Making of 'First Blood' (1982); The Mike Douglas Show (1976); The Planters (2019); The Return of Alex Kelly (1999); The Seventh Art (2013); Tiara Tahiti (1962); Two Gentlemen Sharing (1969); Uncommon Valor (1983); Wake in Fright (1971); War Gene (2020); We Get to Win This Time (2002); Weekend at Bernie's (1989); What Are Families for? (1993); When Muscles Ruled the World (2002); Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? (1978); Why Shoot the Teacher? (1977); Winter People (1989).

Born on this day – Wayne Rogers:

Wayne Rogers

Actor

April 7, 1933 – December 31, 2015

Born on this day – Alan J. Pakula:

Alan J. Pakula

Director

Writer

Producer

April 7, 1928 – November 19, 1998

Born on this day – James Garner:

James Garner

Actor

Producer

April 7, 1928 – July 19, 2014

Credits:

100 Years of the Hollywood Western (1994); 11th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2005); 1995 VH1 Honors (1995); 2000 Blockbuster Entertainment Awards (2000); 36 Hours (1964); 5th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (1999); 77 Sunset Strip (1959); 8 Simple Rules (2003–2005); A Century of Westerns (2003); A Conversation with Dinah (1991); A Man Called Sledge (1970); A Man Could Get Killed (1966); Action on the Beach (1964); AFI Life Achievement Award (1978); Al Roach: Private Insectigator (2004); American Masters (2000–2012); Amy Grant: Building the House of Love (1994); Angel (1961); Arena (2000); Arsenio Hall in The Arsenio Hall Show (1994); Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001); Barbarians at the Gate (1993); Battle for Terra (2007); Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western (1997); Biography (1998–2000); Boys' Night Out (1962); Bravo Profiles (2001); Breathing Lessons (1994); Bret Maverick (1981–1982); Byron Nelson: The Legend Series, a Texas Gentleman (1999); Cash McCall (1960); CBS Early Morning News (1984); Celebrity Billiards (1968); Celebrity Golf (1961); Century of Country (1999); Changing Scene (1970); Cheyenne (1955–1957); Chicago Hope (2000); Conflict (1956–1957); Cops (1973); Cowboy Jubilee: Celebrating the National Cowboy Hall of Fame (1995); Darby's Rangers (1958); DC Showcase Original Shorts Collection (2010); Dead Silence (1997); Decoration Day (1990); Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2002); Donahue (1989); Duel at Diablo (1966); Entertainment Tonight (1990–2003); Fire in the Sky (1993); First Annual All-Star Celebrity Softball Game (1967); First Monday (2002); First Night (2007); For Love of Liberty: The Story of America's Black Patriots (2010); God, the Devil and Bob (2000); Golf: The Greatest Game (1994); Good Morning America (1989); Grand Prix (1966); Grand Prix: Challenge of the Champions (1966); Great Performances (1995); Harty (1983); HBO First Look (1994–2002); HealtH (1980); Heartsounds (1984); Here's Hollywood (1962); Hollywood Greats (2006); Hollywood Salutes Jodie Foster: An American Cinematheque Tribute (1999); Hour of the Gun (1967); How Sweet It Is! 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